13 April 2018
Last week we had our rough-in plumbing inspection. Within 2 minutes of starting the inspection, our inspector told us we were going to fail the inspection and showed us why. The nail plates we used everywhere were intended for protecting electrical wires, not plumbing pipe. They were all too small. Otherwise, everything else was good to go.
I replaced all the plumbing nail plates with the correct size this week. 5" x 1-1/2" anywhere a pipe goes through a stud. 8" x 5" anywhere a pipe passes through a sole plate or top plate.
The inspector came back today, and we passed! Yay! We've also continued working on electrical wiring. Last weekend our son Patrick came out and gave us a hand while our daughter-in-law and granddaughter were off visiting friends. He helped us out with some of the wiring. Hopefully it wasn't too boring for a guy with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering! :-)
We spent some of the day doing some finish work on the wiring rough-in. We have to take the NM cable sticking out of holes in the wall like this...
And put in the box and then strip and separate the individual wires.
It was pretty tight. But I managed to crawl all the way around the house this way. That let me run wires directly between the outlets with the cable in the porch attic space. Of course, what would the exploration of another barely accessible part of the house be without meeting another past resident.
In the front bedroom, I had to remove some of the bead board on the wall above an outlet location to fish the wire through. Filling the stud cavity about 8" deep was this stuff. Any guesses as to what it is?
Our hay field has been growing wild for a couple of summers now. We decided that it really needs to be cut to keep the weeds and young trees in check. First order of business was to make a path down to the field through the woods. This was accomplished through the proper application of chainsaw and tractor.
I took this picture to show Amy that I had made it to the field with the tractor.
The next step was to borrow a 3 point (referring to how it attaches to a tractor) bush hog from a neighbor. Patrick made a few laps with the bush hog.
Amy took over and cut over half the field.
Then I finished up. It took us about 4 and half hours to cut the whole field.
For most of the time we've been working on the plumbing and electric, I've been trying to envision how we are going to fit insulation, plumbing, electric, and HVAC in the attic space over the bathroom addition on the north side of the house. Here is what the addition looks like from the outside.
There's just no space for all the things we need to do in here.
When we gutted this part of the house, there were water stains and mold all over the drywall and insulation. This will have to be properly sealed and insulated to prevent moisture condensation problems.
The answer, of course, is that the roof needs to be higher to create more attic space above the room...sigh.
P.S. All that stuff at the bottom of the stud cavity. Insect wings!?
Last week we had our rough-in plumbing inspection. Within 2 minutes of starting the inspection, our inspector told us we were going to fail the inspection and showed us why. The nail plates we used everywhere were intended for protecting electrical wires, not plumbing pipe. They were all too small. Otherwise, everything else was good to go.
I replaced all the plumbing nail plates with the correct size this week. 5" x 1-1/2" anywhere a pipe goes through a stud. 8" x 5" anywhere a pipe passes through a sole plate or top plate.
The inspector came back today, and we passed! Yay! We've also continued working on electrical wiring. Last weekend our son Patrick came out and gave us a hand while our daughter-in-law and granddaughter were off visiting friends. He helped us out with some of the wiring. Hopefully it wasn't too boring for a guy with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering! :-)
We spent some of the day doing some finish work on the wiring rough-in. We have to take the NM cable sticking out of holes in the wall like this...
And put in the box and then strip and separate the individual wires.
While Patrick and I were working on the wiring, Amy was hard at work on our windows.
Some of the wiring runs for the second floor were going to use up a lot of wire. We were going to have to make big loops from one outlet, up in to the attic, over and down to the next outlet. I decided to see if I could crawl up in to the attic space above the wrap around porch. I did it!
It was pretty tight. But I managed to crawl all the way around the house this way. That let me run wires directly between the outlets with the cable in the porch attic space. Of course, what would the exploration of another barely accessible part of the house be without meeting another past resident.
In the front bedroom, I had to remove some of the bead board on the wall above an outlet location to fish the wire through. Filling the stud cavity about 8" deep was this stuff. Any guesses as to what it is?
Our hay field has been growing wild for a couple of summers now. We decided that it really needs to be cut to keep the weeds and young trees in check. First order of business was to make a path down to the field through the woods. This was accomplished through the proper application of chainsaw and tractor.
I took this picture to show Amy that I had made it to the field with the tractor.
The next step was to borrow a 3 point (referring to how it attaches to a tractor) bush hog from a neighbor. Patrick made a few laps with the bush hog.
Amy took over and cut over half the field.
Then I finished up. It took us about 4 and half hours to cut the whole field.
For most of the time we've been working on the plumbing and electric, I've been trying to envision how we are going to fit insulation, plumbing, electric, and HVAC in the attic space over the bathroom addition on the north side of the house. Here is what the addition looks like from the outside.
There's just no space for all the things we need to do in here.
When we gutted this part of the house, there were water stains and mold all over the drywall and insulation. This will have to be properly sealed and insulated to prevent moisture condensation problems.
The answer, of course, is that the roof needs to be higher to create more attic space above the room...sigh.
P.S. All that stuff at the bottom of the stud cavity. Insect wings!?
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