| Today, election day 2008, we had a lot of
'action'. Our plumber, Randy Mullis of Coastal Heating and Plumbing was
back on the job after being out with health problems. We are glad to
have him back.
Lots of trucks, lots of activity. |
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| A fellow with a small backhoe dug a trench today for
electricity/and or/ plumbing ( I have to ask). I got out old
construction photos to see if we could identify where the original lines
were laid. It was hard to tell. |
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The marker people came out and marked
the location of the utilities up around the easement near the street.
Our diggers managed to immediately cut the phone/DSL line. Inside the
guesthouse we switched over to our back-up cable internet connection
which the diggers then cut before the paint had dried on the gravel
where the locator fellow had sprayed. |
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| (Fortunately both cable and Gulftel were
repaired the next day) |
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| We now have a half-wall at the top of the
stairs. This will give us a nice corner to put the dining table in and
is short enuf to see over as you enter the space. We could have made a
complete wall but I thought it would be nice to see what is going on the
room you are about to enter from the stairs. Plus it lets light from the
windows glow down on the stairs. |
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Dan got the A/C people to install square
register boxes so they would be nice looking centered (I hope) in the
coffered ceiling panels. You can see the strings that Dan and Aaron put
up to help everyone see hope the ceiling panels will be aligned. |
| Jimmy our roofer, who has beautiful blue
eyes, and his assistant, Roy, came late in the day and installed the
last 4 Sun-Domes in the living and kitchen room area. Due to a lot of
calculating on Dan's part, the solar tube Sun-Domes should end up
well-centered in the coffered Maple ceiling panels which go in that part
of the house. |
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We have an extra challenging situation
because we will be installing our Evoba
maple coffered ceiling in the living room area where we also have 4
Sun-Dome skylights. We want these plastic interior lens to be a centered
as possible in the 2' x2' panels.
To help figure out where the holes in the
roof needed to be cut, Dan and Aaron ran strings criss-crossing the
ceiling to indicate where the ceiling panels will go. |
| Dan Z. had all the parts laid
out and when he met with Jimmy and Roy he told them, when you install
the Sun Domes use everything you
see here...and they did. |
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We have a 10" Sun
Dome in the master bathroom, a 10" in the little mini-office space
and 4 13" in the living rm/ kit area. |
| Dan Z. and his carpenter, Aaron, worked
out the way to frame the ceiling in the master-bedroom. All of these
things are having to be figured out on-the-spot. I want to do a Cuban
style ceiling treatment in that room. (More on that later) It is
an incredibly tall room.
One wall of the main bedroom has a attic
space over the entrance and closets. It is in here that the A/C
runs in from the long part of the house. We made an opening for a little
door se we'd have access to the area for future maintenance. I requested
we add a electric fixture for a bulb up there. |
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 Funny to see a hammer stuck into a stud in the
doorway upstairs. Don't know who's it is, but you do not even see many
old fashioned hammers on a job at all. |
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General contractor Dan and Jim our
electrician. |
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