Security

Post date: Jul 30, 2015 1:58:16 AM

It rained lightly this afternoon, cutting the plaster preparation short by about an hour. The plasterers themselves come tomorrow to help apply the expanded metal lath around the windows and their associated lintels. When they are done, the external lath must pass government inspection before they can apply the plaster. We expect showers every afternoon for the next ten days, so this preparation may take a while.

The security folks started to wire the window sensors. These are not for security purposes, but to tell the furnace that a window is open, so it is OK to exhaust hot air from the house. They cannot use the invisible ones, as there is no way to install them in the narrow wood frame, so we will use surface mount switches.

While I’m not a small-government man, I certainly understand inspections of framing, plumbing, and wiring on safety grounds. But lath and low-voltage security wiring seems too much for me, as does inspecting the duct-work.

We passed the framing inspection, even though the heating installers had removed a chunk of studs to run ducts through and out one wall. That will take some heavy fixing, which I want our carpenters to fix, not the plumbers.