Howell Cabin

Time to give that first piece of siding under the electric meter some company. Friday  detailing the housewrap  that's a purple thistle!  five wasps nests  ripping down a 24-foot-long board. definitely a two-person job.  placing the rest of the fan air vents, so we can work around the blocks as we install the siding planer shavings Saturday the lift is popular  we always say he grew like a weed, but this weed has him beat  guinivere helped eliot with detailing the rest of the walls guinivere cutting some detail flashing  the first row on the first wall is done. work today was cut short -- because Jon cut his finger short with a box knife while scoring a siding panel. eliot and guinivere got some more prep work done while i cleaned up tools with my remaining functional hand. this explains why i'm not typing much today... dinner was pizza at Beau's, a favorite in cle elum Sunday  ...

Saturday   Dan rode up with Eliot and I; Christina brought David, JJ, Peter, and Hannah. Lunch was eleven people. Another dump run. David worked on the pantry for the shedlet. We had to install one panel of siding so the meter base would end up on top of it. Dan & Eliot preparing the meter base and panels for dry fitting. Meter base is mounted; fitting the conduit. Sunday Preparing and installing the service entrance conductors. A shout out to my friend Brett who spent a few hours on the phone talking electrian-shop this week! This panel/meter layout and conduit routing was Eliot's solution to our panel placement problem. Meter base installed and wired to panels! Panels bonded & grounded to Ufer ground. An Ufer ground is basically rebar near the bottom of the concrete foundation that's continuous up through an access stub where it can be wired to the panel. Remarkably, the moisture in the concr...

Friday We picked up our first batch of electrical supplies from branches in Lynnwood and Ellensburg. As you can see from the sign, we weren't able to buy a receptacle. Jon oiled the last three windows. Siggy climbed a tree and attached plywood to it. Eliot re-framed the bottom course of stairs. Saturday Toby & Dan joined us today for the heavy work of installing the sliding doors. We cut out and furred the openings to the correct size. Lots of strong people to lift these monsters into place.  There they are, the last of the glass! It's impractical to oil the panels after they're installed, but we didn't want to leave a hole in the house. So we went to work getting the wood treated and the sliding panels in place. Siobhan puttied holes left in the ceiling by overzealous nail guns a floor above. Christina sanded it smooth, so the ceilings are ready for oil. Christina oiled the fir window screens .....