Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Snow Is Making Us Work!

We are getting a lot of snow here in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts so James and I are hard at work to get this house done!

Here, James sanded down the window ledge and installed it. I'm repairing a few dings and it should be ready to prime and paint here soon!


I finally ironed on the edges of the countertops!  I'll have to trim them and sand them down.  


Of course a day of work wouldn't be complete without more electrical work!  We're hoping to finish up all the outlets in the kitchen today.  There are 4 more we have to do.  For those of you who do not know how this is done, here's a quick summary.  We cut the hole for the future outlet or switch.  We have a 64 inch drill bit (I think it's 64 inches) and we drill a hole through all the supports or whatnot from the basement to the hole.  Then we jam this wire thing through the hole hoping to get it from the basement out of the hole we cut.  Then we attach the electrical wire to it and pull it so the wire comes on through.  It sounds simple, but it's not and it takes forever.  

After we are done with the kitchen, we will have all the feeds done - except for the attic.  Running a wire from the bottom corner of the basement to the top of the attic is not going to be fun.  We'll have to run it behind the walls of the living room, our bedroom and up to the attic.  We'll have to be extremely caffeinated for that one.

1 comment:

JoernandAllison said...

Sometimes snow isn't such a bad thing. It forces us to stay home.
It looks like you guys are making lots of progress on the kitchen! Hope you got your outlets finished.