3.29.2017

Jim was back in touch with his light rep today - the guy insisted that the ballasts were the correct ones that are rated to turn on at temperatures of -20 degrees.  Jim told him that when you look up the ballast on their web site, it only says to 0 degrees.  The rep sent him the link to the manufacturer's website, where this ballast is indeed rated to -20.  So apparently it was a typo on the lighting website and these were the correct parts all along!  A little frustrating but all's well that ends well.  As far as the brackets, the guy was surprised they didn't fit but Jim didn't push that since he has a fix to make those work.

Speaking of lights, we got the bulbs delivered yesterday - it's just kind of crazy to see these bulbs.  This is a box of 25 bulbs wrapped in a 4" x 4" box put inside another box.  You'd never know that there were 25 bulbs in here!

While Jim was running his errands yesterday, I did some of my own, including stopping at Home Depot for the last remaining GFI receptacle.  Jim got that installed this morning so all of the receptacles in the workshop have the GFI installed and the boxes redone to make them fit better against the steel studs - yay!

Then Jim worked on installing the door frame for his storage space entry. 

Next was a really big job.  Jim has to figure out how to run wire into the metal shop for the smoke detector.  Since he needed to build a partition wall in the stairwell landing anyway, he decided to build a bit more of a complex wall that will allow him to run wire also.

So here's the space before...

...and after!  This was much more complicated than it looks (not that it looks easy!).  First Jim had to figure out how to attach the top track to the beam/wall structure.  Then he had to figure out how to fit the wall in once it was built.  But it looks really good!

This is the view from the metal shop.  You can see the steel piece at the end of the wall he just built - that will act as a header for the rest of the wall in this area over to the front wall.  Jim will use this wall to carry wire to the front, where he will install the smoke detector. 

Jim also had me pick up these light cages at Home Depot yesterday - he put them on the attic lights for protection (plus they look cool!).

 

At the very end of the day, Jim glued down all of the insulation pieces that he had cut and fit yesterday.

 

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