Ready for Inspection, Sir!

Sweet Hay-suus, this was a busy week on Beachway Drive! This week was when the plumbing and electrical got finished. The interior framing is finished and waiting for drywall. The electrician, John, from Hawkins Electric, said that it was so busy and crowded in our space on Friday that he couldn't get much done. He came to the house at 8am on Saturday morning to finish the electric, we worked until after 3pm! He said it's ready for inspection.

On Monday, the inspectors are coming to inspect the building, the electric and the plumbing to determine whether the project can go on as is. If there are any 'dings' they'll have to be fixed and they will have to reschedule another inspection. It could be a stumbling block.

Join me for a tour will you?

New carpenter Tim was by himself on Thurs and Friday, and he finished the Cove, and the Curves on the outside of the kitchen in the new space and the new Dining Room. Below and to the left you can see where the new sink has been plumbed. Steve the project manager's daughter got married in Rehobeth Beach, DE, so he was out of town for Thur and Friday...hope the weather was good!
This is looking from the new space into the kitchen. The kitchen ceiling really took shape this week. The ended up having to remove it and re cut part of it, but it looks a lot better.

On Monday, they framed in the new gas fireplace and on Thursday the plumbers extended the gas line to the fireplace, and also to the new cooktop. As you can see at the top of the picture we're still open to the elements. No critters have come in, except for the occasional bug.

These are the recepticles for the light switches next to the back door. Note that the switch for the speaker on the right. I bought a sound system to pipe music from the stereo to 4 sets of speakers in the new area. I have always wanted that.

Light switches for the other side of the new space.

Recepticles on the new space wall. Our wall unit will go here with all my music. The speaker system will terminate here.

The display cases that Tim made, were wired for lighting. We didn't choose lights for these, but it will be something low key with accent lighting.

This is the ceiling of the new space, these recepticles are for track lighting on either end, and a ceiling fan in the middle.

The kitchen wall. Dead set in the middle is the new gas line for the cooktop. Our wall oven and GE Advantium oven will be on the far left, were the orange cord is. Has anyone ever used one of these that reads these pages? I'd love to hear from someone that's bought and used one.

Close up of the new sink plumbing. The copper pipe, taped with blue tape to the drain pipe, will be water from a filter-purifier that will feed the ice maker

Switches for the kitchen.

M, inspecting John, the electrician's, handiwork on Sunday morning. All switches on this wall are being moved. So as not to break the plane of the wall. We'll have to put something interesting in this space.

Dining room wall. M and I had originally asked for a builtin here, the one they came up with was really snazzy, but at roughly $8K was a budget buster. We decided to leave it out. Unfortunately, the wiring never was changed in the plans, so the schematic called for counter heighth plugs for a counter that ain't gonna be there. We'll pow-pow with Alan Bennett, from Commonwealth about this on Monday. John, the electrician, said he'd fix it after the inspection. Alan will make sure that happens.

The new hallway into the new space, has been fitted with recessed lighting.

The entry hallway, looking towards the front door, has been fitted with recessed lighting as well.

We'll, that's where we are today, fellow travellers. I'll let you all know whether we passed inspection or not, and what if anything needs fixing.

Steve told us last week, that they were nearing the end of things to do in the house, until the drywall goes up, he said they were going to move outside again , and start outdoor stuff.

S'all for now, keep fingers x-ed for tomorrow's inspection.

cc