Wired Up

Lots happening the last couple of weeks. First of all the power company finally made it out to the house and hooked up my power meter. I then wired up the basement lights and the outlets for the basement freezer and main floor refrigerator. Its a little strange after all this time to have to run power cords from inside the house to the outside after doing the reverse for so long. Last time I'll ever see the power meter read this.

I spent the last weekend in June getting all of my plumbing systems under pressure test. The supply system was easy buy I had a little fun with the DWV. In my previous blog I mentioned the plug coming out of the floor drain when I filled the system with water. Yep, happened again, not once but twice. One time was the outside plug (no big deal) the other was after the system was filled to the roof the toilet plug blew out. Thank God for wet dry vacuums. I finally decided to stop with the water and just pressurized it with air. After losing 1 plug off the roof I finally got the system up to pressure and holding. The following Tuesday the inspector came out. He spent most of the time looking at the framing. The good news is that I passed the inspection. The only thing I missed was some fire blocking around some of the plumbing. That will be rechecked on the following inspection. What this all means is that I can start insulating, yea!

Yesterday I had the main floor gypcrete floor poured over the radiant tubes. The sand was delivered at 7:30 AM, the crew was there at 8, pouring by 8:20, and cleaned up and gone by 10. They happened to notice the old cement mixer that Dad used to pour the sidewalks and bridge years ago and spent some time looking at it. The thought it was pretty cool. The gypcrete comes out of the hose about the consistency of a soft milkshake and pretty much self levels itself. I came home at lunch and was able to walk on it. It make the house much more quite, and its really nice not to be stepping over sill plates.