5.30.2017

A couple plans didn't go quite as planned this morning - Jim headed out first thing to the license bureau to get plates for the newer 4Runner.  We've always remarked at the difference between the DMVs here and in Ohio - the people here are so friendly and you rarely have a wait.  Until today.  Maybe because it was after the holiday or maybe just because - there was an unusually long wait today which Jim didn't feel like being a part of.  He had planned to stop at the Drywall Center on his way home to pick up more rigid foam board - but then it started raining.  Since it has to hang out the back, Jim didn't want to do that either.  So it was on to the property!

He worked on plumbing first...this is the blocking he made for the toilet in the utility room as well as the Pex line in place and capped.

He had to put up the back wall stud for this area in  the utility room and then made blocking and placed the Pex lines to feed the utility tub that will go here.

Then Jim put the left half of the manifold system back together and took apart the right side so that he could get that part painted.

It took quite awhile for Jim to figure out placement for the lines - he has to account for all the lines that will be coming into the plumbing manifold so that everything ends up neatly arranged.  Our first two lines are attached to the manifold!

The Pex tubing for the heating system was totally in the way of Jim working, so he had to figure out a way to get it tied up out of the way for now.  Then he mounted one of the manifolds.  After deciding to change the way the stairwell lines will connect to the manifold, he's probably going to switch out this 4 line manifold for a 3 line.

Late in the afternoon, Jim headed up to do some of the ugly detail insulation work - here he was working in the rafter tail area of the laundry room.  He got brackets made and installed...

and foam board cut and placed.  This will be ready for baffles and insulation now!

He started on the other valley rafter in the kitchen and got some foam board placed here too.

 

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