Today was rough-in inspection day. We had a lot of activity, but I didn’t get many pictures running back and forth between the garage and geothermal contractors. Jonas and his sons stopped in to measure for liner panels and ceilings in the lift and storage bays. Eric the plumber finished up his work in the garage and basement. Terry was here for the inspection, as well as help Eric. The geothermal work has a trench across the driveway so everyone had to park below that. The inspection went well, with no issues on anything except the insulation around the furnace. We now have water at the garage and can energize the electrical panel!
The geothermal heating system required 3 – 250 ft deep wells and a 5 ft deep trench to connect the wells and the house. That goes right across the driveway. Excavating there was as bad as for the garage… all shale and some big rocks. We found (and mangled) the power feed to the old garage, so that will require some splice kits. We also found the power feed to the laundry room and family room, but fortunately didn’t cut that! Tomorrow should see the piping go into the trench and the trench back-filled. If that happens we will start insulating the garage on Friday!
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I thought your garage would be completed by now. I guess being snow bound for a month didn’t help. Of course work for the geothermal heating system added to the workload. What is the expected completion date for all this work?
It looks like the pacing item will be finishing the earthwork. Right now the target to finish the interior (at least far enough to start occupying it) is the end of the month. To finish everything will be another month, I think.
Hey, in case you are looking for something to do, how about coming to Pine Run and telling them how they can install power generators for our community center building and all 18 of the apartment buildings so we don’t lose power in the next storm to come along. They sure could use some help.
Sounds like fun, I always wanted to be a consultant.