We were kind of lax on the picture taking this week but a lot more work was accomplished than these pictures show.
On Sunday we hosted a daughter from South Jordan, her husband, and four children. Biggest event in a long time.
Barbara has almost finished putting a second coat of paint on the pieces for the balcony. She got manure and worms from a friend in Santaquin. She filled in the second half of the grow box for fall planting of cool weather crops. She also washed the outside of many of the windows. She dug holes and prepared the soil for winterberry plants she has ordered.
A cabinet for the bathroom, to go over the washer and dryer. Actually, it was a regular, over-the-sink, kitchen cabinet, but it wouldn't fit in the space available, so Don had to cut it down by removing the center section. Too bad; it had a neat "pigeon hole" part to it that Don was not able to preserve.
Like most of the cabinets except for the new ones we ordered from The Home Depot, it needed a lot of work to make it usable.
There was one cabinet we were unable to use, a huge knickknack shelf made all out of oak. It was so large and so heavy we had no real use for it, so Don took it apart to salvage the seasoned oak lumber.
Just the nails Don pulled in disassembling the knickknack shelf.
Don's solution to how to run wiring for outlets on the central wall, never done by our electrician and now covered with sheetrock, finished, and painted, was to run it through “Wire-Mold®” surface-mount conduit, which isn’t quite as ugly as just plain conduit. He says he really doesn’t care what it looks like, as the important factor is that it will fit under the crown molding he intends to install in the future, which will hide it completely. This wire mold is intended for use at the bottom of the wall, above a baseboard, so he had to “invent” his own ways to deal with it.
Barbara didn't get a photo of it, but the next thing Don had to do was pull the cover off the breaker panel and install a new breaker for the circuit, which has five outlets on it: two downstairs, where the portable electric heater can plug in, two upstairs, which will be on either end of the couch, for laptops and/or table lamps, and one in the ceiling, behind the downstairs wall, where the motor for the dumb waiter will plug in. All of this wiring necessitated hanging a bunch of new sheetrock, too. Don decided to temporarily use that space to store sheets of drywall and plywood, as winter is coming on, and its not safe to keep them outdoors.
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