It is DONE!

The final inspection was today.

This guy is Levi, the county inspector, and as you can see, we passed!

He only had two questions for me. One was about the energy efficiency credits and the blower door test, for which I had the compensating paperwork for the low-flow faucets already prepared. The second was asking for a smoke detector outside the bedroom; I pointed up and he saw that we already had one tucked into the alcove. And that was that!

I got up at 5am to be certain I'd be here before the inspector, and I was ... by about five hours. In that time, I took another truckload of tool buckets down to the storage container, then picked up all the floor protection in the great room and vacuumed and mopped. It's glowing!

Then I went back down to the storage container to get a hammer so I could glue in 32 wood plugs to cover the screws for the french doors.

I fought with installing the screens, but the frames are too big! The manufacturer said "yeah we don't even make those, and the warranty on screens is only a year." I'm going to try to "adjust" the screens we have with power tools, and if that fails, I guess we'll have new ones made.

After the inspector left, I drained the heat pump water heater. The birdies loved the very temporary little creek in the front yard.

Ahh, the on-demand heater is back in its rightful place in the plumbing circuit!