I suppose we will always be working on our house in some form or another. We still have lots of little decorating tweaks to do, some rooms still to furnish, wallpaper here or there. In terms of major things, we are getting down to the last few. One of which is solar. We initially addedRead more about Even more solar![…]
We are a couple of weeks away from moving in. The electrical has been signed off, and we can at last turn on lights, sort of. We are using a Lutron Homeworks QS system, which uses digital switches. The switches talk to the “brain” which in turn commands the appropriate “wall box power modules” toRead more about The lights are on, but no-one is home (yet)[…]
The main stairwell is too tall for ladders. To allow the painters to paint the ceiling and skylight, we had to build a wooden scaffolding platform on the 2nd floor. But, before the electricians got around to hanging the chandelier, we had to take the platform down to allow the carpenters to build the stairRead more about Stairwell chandelier[…]
The electricians have been here for a month now, doing the finish. This includes installing the outlets, light fixtures, switches, and the Lutron system that will control it all. There is lots of lighting, including LED cans, sconces, and surface mount fixtures on the inside. There are quite a few really cool craftsman fixtures onRead more about Electrical update[…]
It’s been almost a month since my last burst of posts, and it’s been quite a month. Frustratingly little progress in terms of what we can call complete, but lots of work going on there an there, just more slowly than we want. The estimates of our move in date keep getting pushed back. Originally,Read more about April – what a month it’s been[…]
The solar installers installed half the solar array this week. We decided to only do half now as we want to be sure we can use all the production, and it saves us a little money up front. That’s 8kW installed and room for another 6.5 kW on the other side, with mounts already installed.Read more about Solar[…]
Now that we have low and high voltage utilities connected to the power pole, the next step is trenching for water and gas, and to run utilities out to our pool house. For starters, take a look at the point at which the utilities go into our house. Holy cow! There are the four linesRead more about Whole-lotta trenching going on[…]
We started the work to run the utilities from the pole at the street to our demarcation point at the side of the garage, where the main electrical panel and the low voltage panels are. Any new construction or significant remodel requires under grounding of the utilities from the pole to the house. There isRead more about Connecting the house utilities[…]
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last update, but there have been no major change, just slow progress. We are in the nebulous zone between finishing everything in the walls and getting our inspections so we can then insulate and drywall the interior. There always seems to be a few more things toRead more about Update 9/8/17[…]
We spent the week in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, visiting the Pictured Rock National Lakeshore (A national park). Upon our return, we discovered quite a bit of progress For starters, the walls and ceiling spaces are visibly becoming visibly full of various utility runs. In that one ceiling section, you see HVAC ducting andRead more about Weekly update 7/14/17[…]