3.6.2017

To free up some of Jim's time, I did a parts run this morning.  I picked up another box of grommets, a box of COAX tv wire, as well as a few more receptacles.

Meanwhile, Jim was very busy - he moved the remaining pieces of plywood from the woodworking shop down into the auto bay.  Then he had to lift them up onto the scaffolding, then push them up into the attic space!  It was a ton of work.  He's just one-half piece shy of having a complete attic floor up there.  It's a huge space that he'll be able to use to store all kinds of miscellaneous parts and pieces.  Eventually, he'll have an access door from the woodworking shop directly into the attic - very cool.

Since we can't use the box truck, plywood is one thing that Jim can't fit in the back of the 4Runner.  One of our neighbors offered to take Jim into Lowe's to pick some up when he needed it, so Jim may take him up on his offer this week.  It would be great to be able to finish off all of these attic spaces - then we can start loading some of them up!

Now that we have more grommets, Jim got busy putting them in the holes he had drilled for the internet run.

 

We worked on more eave insulation this afternoon - Jim had gotten all of the pieces that he has installed earlier.  I cut pieces of the Zip tape - it's incredibly sticky so it makes it easier for Jim if I can cut it and just hand him pieces and he can tape the tabs down to the top of the wall.

Once we got all that done, Jim wanted to put plastic on the unfaced insulation he put up the other day.  Since the two areas are mirror images, Jim cut one big piece of plastic to use for both areas.

However, that made the first side difficult because Jim had to work from the bottom up...spraying the adhesive and trying to get the plastic where he wanted it.

But he got it and cut off the excess...

...which he then used for the same angle on the opposite side of the house.  At least this time he could work from the top down.

Both of these areas are all finished now.

 

Jim and I also worked on getting a few things cleaned up - that giant crate that the new band saw came in has been sitting in the wood shop for quite awhile.  We had taken apart some of it, but we got the rest of it torn apart, all the nails out, pieces cut up enough to fit in our trash can at home.  Just feels better when you walk in the shop now.

 

Although you really can't tell from this picture, now that we've lost a lot of snow cover, I'm always amazed that the soil isn't muddy or standing in water.  It would be wet in Ohio til May with all the clay soil we had.  Here it's already mostly dry - sure makes things nice!

 

 

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