Odds and ends, cleaning up before insulation

Thursday

Eliot had the day off work, so he and Christina came up to prepare the cabin for insulation & drywall contractors. They reorganized the storage container, did a dump run, and packed all the tools and supplies from the cabin into it.

Saturday

Siggy drove the lift all the way from the gate to the house. He's pretty good at it now. Then we went up and down in the bucket just for fun.

Jon spent eight hours vacuuming out the crawlspace, to be ready for the floor insulation. In the second pic, I've finished the first two rooms and I'm just about to start on the last.

Siobhan and Siggy worked on adding fire-resistant caulk to the vertical penetrations.

Meanwhile, Eliot finished flashing the siding by the door, and built the last piece of header trim. Siobhan primed it.

He also measured and cut blocks for the entryway, so we'll carry the varnished wood theme from the loft beams.

Sunday

Eliot & Jon sanded the entryway blocking and varnished it.

Jon cut the kitchen vent outlet into the west wall.

We pulled the tools outside the cabin, and spent a half an hour taking video of all the plumbing and electrical runs before they get covered by insulation & drywall. That should make any future changes easier to sort out.

We had this batten material delivered, but the lift we rented stopped driving in reverse, leaving it stuck in the driveway. So we just re-stacked the battens out of the way of the front door.

Then we emptied the last of the tools back out of the cabin into the storage container. On one trip, the tire hissed, and we had to change a flat. Fifteen minutes -- not really a Red Bull pit stop, but easy enough when you're right next to all the tools.