Day 22 March 8

The day started off not too bad, however by the end of the night I was feeling like poop. Just a cold, but it surprisingly takes more out of you than you’d like when you’re in the middle of a big project. I was able to continue with our prep for Paul by moving all our stuff out from the bottoms of our bedroom closets. Part of the soffit will run the back side of the closet and part of our room. It’s not really a loss considering with the A-frame it was space we never really used. The other part of the soffit is going in the loft so I shifted the futon around to make space for Paul and his partner to work. David had confirmed with Paul that the wiring was indeed wrong, so I took it, wrapped it around the spool, and set it out for one of the guys to pick up.

David came home and diligently got to cleaning up his mess from the day before. Nothing a shop vac couldn’t handle. After he finished we now had a comfortable path to the upstairs :o) David then went onto installing the electrical boxes in the peninsula. Since we want the boxes to be centered on the backsplash, and we didn’t measure/cut correctly for the height, David had to cut a chunk out of the top beam. He managed to pull out another tool I had never seen but seemed to do the trick, along with covering him with saw dust. Such a cutie. The box had to come out more than normal to clear the thickness of the backsplash, because of that he had to attach a beam below the box to help support it and to have something to screw into.

 

Once the boxes were installed, he went onto the electrical in the mudroom. With the preexisting switches and wiring, he was really trying not to take out the walls, but it was inevitable. The space was simply too small and too tight not to. He cracked open a small section and worked within that space for a bit until he had to call it a night. With the weekend here I’m assuming much will be completed by the end of it.