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Post date: Jul 8, 2015 2:05:25 AM
While the carpenter crew were finishing up details on the roof, I was buying interior doors. It may seem odd, but I have six different kinds of interior doors in my little (900 sq ft) house:
- Fire door from the garage
- Wooden doors off the living room
- Hollow core pocket doors to the bathroom
- Solid core molded door for the bathroom
- Bifold doors of the same design (arch top, 2 panel) as the others — for the laundry
- Louvered doors for the bedroom closet
In addition, there are three different kinds of exterior doors: the custom front door, a pair of glass french doors facing south, and the garage door. I have yet to buy the garage door, but the others are ordered, and the windows arrive tomorrow.
Eli picked up the copper-lined canales from the sheet metal shop, but the liners didn’t have the connectors for the rain chains, so I had to take them back. Cisneros has been very busy, and Jim, the old (well, he is younger than I, but still…) man just forgot to make them. Small deal. They will be ready tomorrow. And our crew had a chance to fit the wooden parts of the canales into the parapets today.
Meanwhile the electricians are almost ready for inspection. Eric got the wiring installed in the mechanical room after I consulted on the location of the outlets with the heating contractor. Eric also ran a ‘bonding’ (ground, to my way of thinking) cable all the way across the house to where the gas pipe enters. And Gus ran a ground cable to connect to the reinforcing rods in the foundation (photo on right). They ran conduit up to the roof for future photovoltaic panels (photo on left) and a 240 volt circuit into the garage for future electric car charger. They also pulled communication cable for TV, Internet, video cameras (front door, back door, living room, and roof) and special wiring for photocell-controlled outdoor lights and a motion sensor out front. (I will run my own wiring for the temperature sensors that I embedded in the floor slab. Gus no longer carries the old-style 4-conductor phone cable that is color coded the way I like.)Did I do anything today? Well, yes, I installed blocking for the four grab bars, towel bar, and two robe hooks in the bathroom. Then I discovered that we had not blocked out the niche for the soap and shampoo dish in the shower. So I moved a stud that was placed right in the middle of the niche under the window and added a second stud on the other side of the niche. All leaving room for backer board, thin-set mortar, and tile.
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