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Post date: Jun 3, 2015 3:44:44 AM
Jake and Ulsses added a plate of 3/4” plywood atop the separate inner and outer walls to tie them together and provide a fire block. This required straightening the inner walls, which Eli investigated and pulled to plumb. (The outer walls were straightened when the sheathing was installed.) The photo shows this. The electrician (actually three of them) came today. I helped lay out all the switches and outlets and communications boxes, both inside and out. This required some negotiations, as the electrical inspector is more rigid than the architect was, especially in the kitchen, where we added outlets.They installed many of the boxes and pulled some wire.Gabriel installed blocking and is nearly done with that task. I found one more shear bracket that needed to be bolted to the studs. This one was even harder to reach, so I had to fetch a couple of special tools from the house to get my impact driver into the space at an odd angle.
Oraldo (aka ‘Lalo’) brought a propane grill and cooked beef fajitas for all of us. On other days Gabriel has brought watermelon (‘sandia’) or cantaloupe (‘melon’) for all of us. Very helpful on hot days.I ran out of steam about 2pm and sat down for a brief siesta. (Left is the view of the house from the Southeast, where we ate lunch.) I could hear the guys laughing and joking in the background, which is a good sign. Since Nicanor is off for three weeks of National Guard training (he served two years in Iraq), I am left with cleaning up.
I walked home at 5pm and crashed for three hours. Speaking of crashes, my printer must have a bit of paper stuck in some obscure corner because the paper jams when I try to print. I will have to take the time to thoroughly clean it some day soon. I was printing a diagnostic page because the print color seems off, yet the ink levels seem OK.
I was trying to print charts of the rainfall depth-duration-frequency for Taos, to be sure that my roof drain is correctly sized. Not only the drain, but the overflow scupper and the pipes to the storage tanks. I originally sized them using rainfall data from Santa Fe, but the engineer who sized the roof trusses beefed them up a little for increased snowfall, leading me to check the roof drain, too.
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