It has been a tremendously productive week, although having to be out of the apartment by Thanksgiving has a wonderful effect of forcing the mind. When we left off last week we had just insulated the C-Cans.
Some geese stopped by on their way South.
We also started wiring the bay between the C-Cans. One of the recent changes to the electrical code is that the “garage” circuit needs to be on it’s own 20A circuit – apparently setting the stage for charging electric cars.
Late in the week AT started put up wallboard in the storage C-Can. It only took a couple of hours with the right tools. On Friday he commenced taping, again having the right taping tools it only took a couple of hours. Having a kerosene hot air blowing heater kept the temperature at 80 degrees to get a faster drying time. A second coat of taping followed and taping over the hundreds of screw heads. On Saturday he blew in texturing, let it dry for a couple of hours and finally the finish painting.
On Sunday I was frantically packed up packing up stuff. I had dragooned two of AT’s sons (Christopher & Cameron) to help while AT finished up the installing the lights. At 2:00pm we picked up the 21′ U-Haul truck. We then spent the next two hours packing up stuff and drove it over to the homesite.
After unloading (elapsed time 30 minutes). One of the things that makes the move much easier was renting storage boxes (see below) rather than buying and discarding the standard moving boxes.
The only drawback is that you need to return them, so I’ll spend the next few days unpacking them. I should get them emptied by Wednesday and get the apartment cleaned.
In other work, we got the man-door installed on the workshop C-Can.
Next steps for this week is to finish unpacking the storage boxes (5 of 10 done so far) and return them to U-Haul; get the metal installed on the sides and open end of the enclosure (probably Wednesday); get wallboard up in workshop so we can finish up the electrical install and get the electrical and building permits closed out.
Oh and the cat seems to be doing well in the trailer. I’ve had a couple of brief discussions about not getting up on the counters and desktop. So far he seems to be adapting.