5.2.2018 - Final electric inspection!

Jim called the electric inspector this morning.  The guy told Jim he had put it on his calendar for Thursday instead of Tuesday.  Oh well.  He told him he was able to come out today about noon.  Of course, I got there early and the guy was already there!  But...the big news is that Jim passed with flying colors.  There wasn't one issue in the entire carriage house!  We got our green final sticker so we're good to go with electric!

This morning before the inspector got there, Jim continued work on the acid neutralizer.  You can see he has the pipe cut and fit onto the drain tube inside the furnace.  This still needs to be glued.

Then he started working on the gas line - crazy!  There's always lots to figure out, especially in the beginning but Jim has a start.  Hard to believe we'll be talking to the propane suppliers soon about getting a tank!  Jim also continued doing some planning work on the vent, figuring out how he's going to do it and what additional parts he may need.

In the afternoon, we decided to do some roof work.  The underlayment on this section of the roof has been on for way too long.  We can't roof it because the half round dormer is planned for this area but we need to get it a little more protected.  It was a gorgeous day and the forecast is for some rain over the next couple days so it was the right time to do it.

Jim first put up a roof jack and planks across the bottom.

He decided that he could put up two more rows of shingles so he started measuring for spacing.

It's been a long time since we did roofing so we had to get out all the tools and reacquaint ourselves with the process!  But then Jim got going...

Two more rows of shingles up!

The plan was to cover the remainder of the roof with the titanium underlayment.  So Jim started rolling it on - not the easiest of tasks working from roof jacks!

Once he got the first strip of underlayment down, he put up more toe boards.

Then he started putting on the next row of underlayment...

One more toe board...

That allowed him to reach the peak.  This is the steepest roof pitch of the whole carriage house - you can see that Jim is practically vertical!

Once it was stapled on, Jim cut the sides and taped them...

All done - nice and protected now!

Switching gears once again, Jim decided to put one more coat of paint on the bathroom ceiling before calling it a day!  This was REALLY hard painting - white on white!  There has always been enough color difference between the plaster, the primer and the ceiling paint where it wasn't too much of an issue but that was not the case with this.

Celebration time tonight after passing our final electric inspection!  Yay!

High 83/Low 61 - beautiful!