10/13/24

We arrived again on Friday morning. Unfortunately, it was another very hot weekend with Saturday's high >100 degrees again. Surely that's the last one this year. We installed windows for the south master bedroom and south living room areas on Friday and Saturday. We're waiting for delivery of a connector piece for the double east facing living room windows. The north facing windows in the kitchen and utility room are a little different and we haven't fully decided yet which windows we'll use.  

I finished scraping the kitchen floor on Friday afternoon (I have a few "almost completed" photos but guess I didn't get any completed ones), and Rickey did some taping and bedding and installed the toilet in the 2nd bathroom. Saturday we ran electricity for the stove/dryer/hot water heater under the house and outside into the main breaker, installed the dryer vents up to the attic, and insulated water pipes. (City water services were started this week, and they installed a new meter. We're having pressure problems, and they'll be digging down the street to check & fix a water tap from the main line a couple of hundred feet away.) I worked on mudding over screw holes in all of the areas we have installed sheetrock while Rick worked under the house on Saturday.

On Sunday Rick ran wiring for plugs and lighting in the hot water heater closet. We had to figure out how we were going to deal with some issues with the baseboards and varying wall surfaces throughout the house starting in the 3rd bedroom, and we finished putting up sheetrock on the ceiling and walls in the 3rd bedroom.

Next week we'll work more on sheetrock, electricity & lights, taping & bedding, and maybe the east windows in the living room if the connector piece arrives. The days are getting shorter, and we'll need lighting. Plus, it's frequently been too hot for Rickey to get up in the attic to do much work on electricity and lighting. We also need to get the sheetrock up and taped/bedded/textured in the 2 bedrooms and living room where the mini-splits will be located so that we have heat when it gets cold.

The only time you won't see a parking lot packed full of cars at Ranchland.