Shower pans and some pre-drywall details.

Eliot and Jon were supposed to install battens, but the rental shop lost our order for the lift. We put a few up using ladders before Eliot had had enough.

The insulation guy did most of his work earlier this week. The house is now much quieter and darker than before. We actually have to use doorways now.

Siggy helped get materials and tools out for making a pony wall and curbs in the bathroom.

Eliot installed the pretty blocking in the entryway.

Christina and Jon sawzalled the shower drains off the pipe and spliced on stubs of straight pipe that connect to the fancy Wedi shower pan system.

Jon and Siobhan put a dozen more battens on the west wall.

Eliot reframed the stairwell wall to be ready for drywall.

Christina measured and cut the Wedi shower pan. She was understandably nervous; that was a thousand-dollar piece of the finest German foam. It came out perfectly.

Siggy added a slide to his housetraption.

Guinivere helped clean up cords.

Siggy hung around with Eliot at the pizza place.

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The trim finishing journey begins

The last time we installed wood trim (almost two years ago!), we sanded and cut the material inside the cabin (it was winter) and installed it unfinished. Finishing it meant taping everything off and applying three coats of finish in place. Removing the masking was frustrating (the finish glued it to the wall in places), and in other places the finish still got where it didn't belong. Now the cabin is full of nice, finished floors, cabinets, and counters. It's not a shop. So this time, I'm sanding and pre-finishing all the boards outdoors. Thankfully, there's still pretty nice weather; that black tarp garage heats up pretty well when the sun's out. Today I got the first batch of wood sanded and a coat of finish applied. Christina installed eight receptacles in the kitchen and great room. My mom came up to enjoy the warm ambiance of the not-yet-active wood stove.

Uncrating the wood stove

I drove up to the cabin today to meet a tree contractor. Since I was up there anyway, I took care of some other business. I got the wood stove out and ready to install on Monday. I vacuumed up the tiny particles of styrofoam packaging material from last year's roofing panels that would have been much easier to clean up last year. I put the bathroom outlet back into its adjusted place above the backsplash. I corrected my installation of the heat pump wiring with a pair of reducing washers. Now it's really done. I replaced the emergency brake battery system in the flatbed trailer. I bucked a bunch of old logs into rounds for firewood.

Odds and ends

I made progress on a bunch of little things today. I painted a fencepost in 12" segments and pounded it in at the property line, where the outdoor camera can see it. Now we can measure the snow accumulation. I worked on finishing up almost-complete receptacle branch circuits. The first one I worked on was a little mystery: all the receptacles were installed, but the power didn't reach past a certain point in the line. After some investigation with a wire tracer and watching through the videos we took before covering the walls, I worked out what had happened: two receptacles shared a stud bay, facing into opposite rooms. The plan had been to bring power up to one box, jump over to the other box, and continue back down to the crawlspace to the next box. We forgot the jumper. I couldn't fish a wire between the boxes myself, so that repair waits. Upstairs, installing two receptacles completed the branch. The bathroom vent hole in the tile backer board was a skosh too small. ...

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