Day 254 - A catch-up day

Saturday December 17th, 2005

Today was a bit of a catch-up day. Due to weather conditions (we had about 20cm of snow overnight on Thursday and another 5cm or so on Friday) and other things, the crew didn't quite get the poly (vapour barrier) installed and sealed - with red tape at joints and acoustic sealant at the perimeter. Because of that, Dave went above & beyond the call of duty by coming in on Saturday to finish the poly taping and "black death" (acoustic sealant).

While Dave was finishing the poly, I cleaned up the house. There were lots of little pieces of poly all over the floor plus various sawdust, bits of wire, and other construction debris. This was a critical thing to do as the poly is quite slippery and is a hazard. After I picked up the big stuff, and swept up most of the other stuff, I fired up my shop vac and vacuumed the rest of the little bits.

I took these photos after the clean up. This photo is looking at great room from from entrance.

This photo is looking at front entrance from great room. I was standing in front of the scaffolding that you can see in the previous photo.

You can see the arch more clearly in this photo. The arch is actually exactly the same radius arc as the center window in the great room.

This is the office, and you can see what it looks like with the strapping in place. It is just tacked up for now, but will be nailed in securely next week.

You can see the empty spools of wire of wire here. There are 15 spools, each was 150m or almost 500ft. There are a few other spools of wire that are in use but not yet finished. Just counting the empty spools, that means there is over 2.25 km (1.42 miles) of wire in the house.