Category: april

Two guys arrived at 7 am to hang the wallboard. They would have finished today if they hadn’t run short a few sheets. The office and bathroom are done (except taping the seams), but the shop still has some work to go.

Lights on exterior are powered up! (Kerch says they are too bright . . . need to get new bulbs.)

Geothermal was supposed to be working last week. . .so we didn’t reorder fuel oil…and ran out Friday night.  It’s done now and seems to be working.  We’ll see how it does.

Terry and Tom were back today to hang the interior doors and clean up some odds and ends. I went around and poked the wiring through the insulation so we would know where to put the holes in the liner panels. Wallboard for the office and woodshop was delivered today.  Everything is now out of the lift bay to prepare for the ceiling and liner panels.

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Today insulation started. This went pretty quickly and made a big difference in the look of the interior. The walls are now insulated, ready for wallboard and liner panels. After the ceilings are up they will come back to blow insulation above the ceilings.

We don’t want to discuss geothermal right now.

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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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The piping for the compressed air system is in place and tested, ready to insulate and close in the walls. Eric the Plumber was here today to start work on the basement tie-in. Tomorrow is a big day . .  we will have Terry and the plumbers here for the rough-in inspection in the afternoon.  Then I’ll find out if I have any code violations with my wiring.

The geothermal guy was here today to scope out how he will trench across the driveway tomorrow . . . blocking all traffic up to the garage. No problem, everybody just has a little farther to walk!

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