Day 23 March 9

It seems like the electrical part keeps growing legs! I’m sure it really hasn’t it only feels like we’ve wired so much and there’s still more to wire. While I may not understand the whole system, I at least get some of it, can do it, and don’t mind it :o) David went back to his work from the previous night and evaluated that more of the wall had to go, as well as a portion of the ceiling. There was just no way he would be able to get the preexisting wire to the new switches we’re adding. So while David was playing in drywall, I jumped on the task of wiring the outlets David put in the night before in the peninsula. Badda-bing, badda-boom, and done! Then came the pendant lights right up above. I had measured earlier and was ready to install. Once the boxes went in they got wired up and all’s good in the neighborhood!

While I was wiring by the peninsula, David was wiring in the mudroom. He wired up the two recessed lights. I picked up where he left off to strip and connect the wires while he was running the lines to the added switches. The more he brought wire to the box the more concerned he seemed about whether they would all fit or not. We’ll only know until we try! But David still needed to conjure up how it all would be wired before we went to town on them. So the next best thing was to go fishing!

After listening in on a few of David’s work conversations, as well as his nightly updates about certain jobs, I’ve heard a lot about fishing. This isn’t your catch and release with a wet, floppy, scaling sucker on the end of a lour, but more like retrieving shit in the bottom of a well that’s impeding drilling. Sometimes this takes creative juices from the men to think up different scenarios and tools to do the job. In the case of tonight, it was a wire coat hanger. In the dinette is an existing box we’re hoping to use again, however we needed to run wire to it. This is challenging when you’re trying to preserve the drywall, a task we’ve rarely done during this project. But David was adamant and looking for a challenge, so there we were, pushing and pulling, tapping and twisting, yelling STOP or to the left/right. To be honest I didn’t think it was going to happen, considering the hole David drilled up top was at an angle because the space was too small for the drill to go straight vertical, and the tiny hole we were trying to hit on the box. But with David’s persistence we managed to find the hole from the bottom up and pull the wire through. I’d say that was reward enough to call it a night.

First appliance to be delivered!!