Scott from Bright Lights Electric powered on the house yesterday. It was slightly harder then just putting in the breakers and wiring a few outlets, because we needed to preserve the 100 amp service to the barn. Now the furnace, pumps and bathroom circuits are live.
No more running extension cords from the outside power pedestal throughout the house. We can keep the doors and windows closed!
Johnny's Plumbing also hooked the gas up to the furnace and once Robert Clearwater get the furnace lit we will have heat in the house. He is going to try and go up tomorrow to do that.
Looks like the kitchen will go in beginning October 16, so working the timeline for the items that follow, e.g. finish electric/plumbing we will probably not make the October 23 date for a CO inspection.
We will start filling the cistern this weekend and finish the outside items. Dave Jones will also be hanging interior doors.
We are also looking forward to see what Jim Custy has done on the stone veneer.
2 comments:
Why was the house not powered up until now? I remember power being active sone after our place was enclosed. And why is a cistern required out there, is there times when the pump may be dry?
It's exciting to see some of the finish items come together, let us know when the guest room is furnished!
We had power to the site, but we needed the interior walls completed before we would power up.
The reason for the cistern is threefold: wells do not produce at high levels (ours recovers at 250 gallons a day) here and the cistern acts as our water storage battery, because of location, if the well pump failed it could be a couple of days before it could be repaired, and third it is the fire departments water source (hydrant), if needed (which also gets us a break on our house insurance.
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