7.28.2022

Mom and I headed out this morning to do some more returns as well as some grocery errands.  When we got home, Jim had a big surprise for us - he got the AC working in Mom's room!  This is a really cool unit with a remote that looks like it can do all kinds of things.  But what a HUGE relief that all Jim's hard work paid off and it is functioning perfectly!  Now because nothing in this installation system has been easy, the electric wiring that came with the units is too short to completely go to the compressor.  Jim has it temporarily fixed right now and ordered more wire.  He'll have to splice the wires together in order to finalize it.  But it works!

In the afternoon, Jim headed back outside to start working on the final sheathing course.  

He had to make and install blocking at the very top in order to be able the fasten the sheathing, best seen from below...

We had a pop-up shower come through right after Jim got cleaned up.  He took the trash down on his way to Home Depot to pick up some more wood for the blocking.

A big shocker - Jim got his roofing material quote back today.  The price of the composite shingles is over 2-1/2 times what we paid for them when we bought them for the house!  The quote for the shingles for this small area was crazy!  Jim also had them quote the price for standing seam metal, which was our other option.  It was only a few hundred dollars cheaper.  Good thing we built when we did but it doesn't bode well for building in the future with those prices!

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