“What are men to rocks and mountains?” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
At long last, Chris rented a bulldozer and moved mountains of topsoil, transforming our moonscape of clay and stone. Grass seed, drifts of rudbekia and purple salvia, and banks of pachysandra will be coming soon.
Dean Warner, electrician, returns to install more interior wiring and keep an eye on the deer walking past in the field. Fixtures are attached to the one-and-a-half-inch furring strips attached to the SIPs panels. In the next week or so, this will all be covered by drywall / sheetrock. This approach is easier than creating chases within the rigid foam to run wiring, or hiding it in a fat baseboard, which are alternatives when working with SIPs.
Dean Warner electrician runs our secondary electrical service into our lower level utility room. The electric service, along with telephone and television cable enter under the footing through 2″ conduits. After installation, the conduits will be sealed air-tight for passive house standards.
Several months ago the phone company, Verizon, dropped off a spool of cable weighing several hundred pounds. Chris built a spool caddy and waited. At long last, the nearest neighbor granted an easement to the nearest utility pole, a date was set for electrical service installation, Chris dug the trench with his father-in-law, National Grid installed the electric cables — and yesterday Chris unwound the cable the length of the trench.
National Grid is scheduled to lay out primary electrical service cable tomorrow.
Twenty frogs have been relocated to the grandparents’ pond.
Chris and Ted (Susan’s father) are digging 1,387 feet of trenching to reach our nearest utility pole.
