Day 223 - rain again

Drive up, Wednesday November 16th.

Here you can see what the roofers accomplished on Monday. They did not show up yesterday, they did not show up today.

Here you can see that the interior framing is proceeding, despite the inclement conditions indoors and out! The steel tracks are fastened to the concrete with a nail that is driven with a 22 calibre shell. The steel studs are placed in the tracks, levelled and then crimped to hold them in place until they can be screwed together.

It will be a real relief when the roof is finally shingled so the crew can work in the dry and the warm. They are working hard and making good progress without complaint about the rain and the cold.

This is Glen, he is installing the septic system.

Since the ground level will be above the septic tank (the blue part, partially visible here), Glen is installing a couple of extenders, black plastic rings that screw into the tank and then the lids screw into them. You can see one is already installed on the access hole on the left.

The black octagonal tank on the right is the effluent pump chamber. The effluent passes through a filter before flowing out of the septic tank into this pump chamber. The filter prevents any solids from passing through to the pump chamber, which helps increase the longevity of the pump. A float triggers the pump to push the liquid out to the septic field. There is also a high water alarm in the effluent chamber set just above the float, which will trigger if the pump fails to empty the tank.

Because the piping out to the septic field isn't 5 feet or so below grade, Glen will place some styrofoam insulation on top of the piping before backfilling. The septic will be inspected before that happens of course.

The removal of the big pile of rock has been deferred until Monday. Because of all the rain, the place that was going to take the rock is too mucky, and they need to let it dry up a bit. Hopefully this will happen by Monday!!!

More warehousing...
Today Freda picked up a light fixture for over the kitchen sink, it has 4 halogen bulbs so we can angle them to give good working light.

When we were purchasing the exterior door handles, we forgot about the basement door to the garage and the cold storage doors, so Mark picked up some inexpensive door knobs for that today.