The house project has been slow. Got it cleaned out of burn damage, and the damaged areas sprayed, the neighbor used a shellac product instead of kilz. Terrible stuff. He should have had an air supplied mask and did not. And the **** is explosive.
Got the wiring replaced and the "rough" inspection for electrical passed. Got a few outlets hot, which greatly reduces the need for cords strung from the garage, and of course the main house panel is again hot. For warm up on cold days, I have an old electric furnace only running two of the elements plugged into the kitchen range outlet I don't yet have the water heater back on permanent power but could have any time.
I do want to change a couple of things AFTER the inspections are all over with, but it will require some prelim. The way the electrician did this, I am out of breakers. But he put both bedrooms lighting and outlets, along with the short hallway, ceiliing lamp and outlet, AND the bathroom lamp and blower, all on one outlet. I at least want the bedrooms separate, because the back bedroom is normally used for radio/ electronics, AND I won't have a furnace for awhile. I will have to supplement the living room gas heater with electric. The bedrooms and bath have wall Cadet heaters, but they won't be enough. So I'd sure like to have "better" and separate outlets in the two bedrooms.
The wiring is daisy chained at the last outlet, up overhead, back down to the second bedroom, chained around the room, then back up and over into the bathroom.
So I can separate it all up in the "attic" and J box them back together, then stub in a couple extra runs back to the panel area. The plan is AFTER all the inspection **** is over, separate those circuits, connect to the stub runs, and add a small sub panel, either indoors in the kitchen or outdoors beside the existing panel.
I finally got the gas pipe reworked. It did not leak gas, but they require a pressure check and the old sealer won't hold that. Be aware that gas is 1/4PSI (7" water column) and the test is 10PSI, that is FORTY TIMES the working pressure. I have not got it inspected yet, but it held my own test
I got the water system reworked, and finally decided to get rid of the last of the galvanized. All new pex, except for two short pieces of galvanized, at the interface in/ out of the water tank.
What comes before that is what I need to work on. The little ***** (boy) that does framing inspections, knows nothing but crossing t's and dotting i's. I have to caulk and seal up pinholes to please that *****. Meanwhile, the stairwell is and always has been wide open.
But I won't be doing ANYTHING of this for a few weeks, looks like.
We all laugh in Dels behalf.
