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Electrical corrections & the highest point

 
Friday

Jon went up to meet the inspector for the electrical rough-in.


Oooh, the robins nesting in our rafters kicked out an eggshell! On Saturday, Christina saw one parent feeding worms.

 

We got three corrections. First, we were supposed to "make up the grounds", which I knew from when Darwin taught us that for the shedlet, what, three years ago? Shoot.

We also needed a dedicated laundry circuit. We'd planned one (even had a labeled breaker), but somehow forgot and strung those receptacles onto another chain. That was an easy fix.

Last, the inspector wanted a floor receptacle along the balcony front edge. I never want to plug anything in there, but ... okay. I drove to Ellensburg to buy a special floor receptacle box (pretty pricey!), came back, and spent the afternoon installing it. I made a test installation on a piece of scrap, then very carefully went to work on the fancy car-decking floor.

 
 
Here's the finished installation:


Saturday evening I went on a seven-mile walk from the cabin to the Easton airport.

Saturday

We saw some wild turkeys on the road to our cabin.

Most of today went to making up grounds: stripping the cable covers, splicing together the grounds, and grounding metal boxes. About a hundred boxes needed the treatment. Most went pretty fast. The high-up ones took lots of time for setting up scaffolding.


     

Christina and Siobhan worked on finishing the front door.



Sunday

We rounded out the rest of the electrical corrections in the morning, and re-checked our work.

Just before noon we set out to attach the diagonal braces to the chimney. The actual task is pretty simple -- fasten four bolts through the roof, and attach them with wingnuts to a strap around the chimney. The problem is that all those parts are 30 feet up a very steep metal roof.

Jon ran to town and bought a climbing rope. The first task was to get the climbing rope over the roof. We tried tying twine to a stick and throwing it over; that failed spectacularly. We tried pushing a fiberglass wire-fishing rod up the roof, and that failed. We finally managed to string together a contraption with gatorade bottles, fish rod, PVC plumbing leftovers, and lots of gorilla tape, and got the twine over the peak.


 

Eliot clipped into the safety harness and ascended the roof using the climbing rope.


  

After measuring the placement of the chimney, Jon refabricated the support bars to an appropriate length. Siggy helped form the bar ends with the vise.


Eliot drilled through the roof, and Jon met the bolts on the inside of the sheathing with nut assemblies.


The whole endeavor took seven hours and a lot of sweating.

Everyone mellowed out with a late night dinner at ihop on the way home. Here's Eliot teaching Siggy a subway game.


Monday update

The electrical inspector approved the corrections. Hooray! (He also approved the final inspection for the shedlet.)

Comments

  1. Molly LiljaJuly 12, 2021 at 10:35 AM

    Awesome! Totally cool. You guys are going to treasure these memories.

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  2. JJuly 13, 2021 at 4:15 PM

    Congratulations. You guys do good work!

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