Shower glass delivered and installed on Tuesday.
Downstairs shower enclosure.
The masking tape has to stay on for three days so the glass seals and sets properly.
Our queen sleeper couch made it to the downstairs...
...with a little help from some friends.
A few lessons and activities to end the week (without pictures):
- Do NOT buy open box finish plumbing fixtures (like shower cartridges and handles), no matter how much you think you'll save. There wasn't one working handle assembly that could be cobbled together from two open-boxes. (Expensive lesson.)
- Grinding angle iron stair posts indoors makes a HUGE mess. (Katie was NOT happy with me.)
- When you're drilling holes in angle iron, make sure you're non-drill hand is out of the way. (Ouch. One ruined glove. A little blood...)
- To determine the depth of insulation you need strip off wires, test the depth you need to strip off with bare wire, not insulated wire. (Sorry, appliance installers. The dryer socket's now working correctly.)
- Before you decide a newly installed outlet is dead after the wires tested live before turning off the circuit, flip the switches in the vicinity on. (1 hour wasted.)
- It's always the thing you thought would be "easy" that takes the longest -- like putting screws in to a fan box rough-in that you unscrewed easily minutes ago. Both upstairs ceiling rough-in boxes wasted over an hour of my time, but the ceiling fans are installed and working beautifully (and silently...finally.)
- Lots of outlet plates and switch plates installed.
- A few more light fixtures installed. Just the main room, stairway sconces and bunk bathroom light are left to install.
- Norm finished up the final framing corrections need on the exterior beam brackets so we should pass the final framing with flying colors.
- Sealing the eves takes way more sealer than you might think. Buy more than you need. Plan to return the extra.
- You don't realize how dirty your windows are until they get cleaned by a professional. Wow, Tom. WOW!
- Friends are angels. Bless you Norm, Bryan and Tom.
The plan is to finish up all the electrical and safety related items this week so that we can call for the final inspections before the week is out.
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