A couple weeks ago we got the help of a good friend (and master elecrician) for a day to help sort out a bunch of finish electrical details. He got our electric hotwater heater heater hooked-up: three 50-Amp circuits to power this bad boy. Of course I was short a couple 3/4" PEX fittings so we couldn't fire it up that day.
Electric hot water heater installed.
He installed all the electrical boxes, including the hot tub circuit breaker, on the exterior near the doors.
Hot tub circuit breaker.
Back door outlet.
Garage door outlet.
He also got most of our switches hooked-up, and I've been tucking them in and installing faceplates. (Sorry, no pics.)
Prior to his arrival Katie and Sylvie had been installing power outlets on the top floor. When he arrived, he caught that our outlets were not "tamper resistant", which is now code. So Katie had to uninstall them all and put in new ones. And of course, I accidentally purchased almond colored ones instead of white, so it took a while to get back on the right track.
Katie installing outlets in the basement (with the circuit breaker off).
White double and single outlets on drywall.
Black outlets on wood walls.
We also had to find a couple rough-ins burried beneath the drywall -- a light rough-in, and stairwell switch, and a dryer vent. Thankfully, Katie video'd everything last year before the drywallers showed up. (But we still haven't found the lost light switch rough-in....)
Screenshot of Katie's video showing the sconce rough-in we needed to find.
Finding the dryer vent proved more difficult. I ended up cutting a larger rectangle to allow me to fish around for it. Turns out the insulation contractors covered it up and we didn't notice before the drywallers showed up.
It's painful to cut a big hole in pristine, painted drywall.
The dryer vent is now showing with the first patch drywall patch around it.
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