Tonight billn did some cleanup work to prepare for the weekend work. Hopefully we prime and paint the second floor. The Brooklyn Barrister will be here tomorrow; Alissa (jenm's sister) is here today. Also, we plan to finish the aluminium installation on the ceiling and hang the drywall there too (drywall is being delivered, drywall lift rental is reserved).
Here you can see billn is not only an engineer, electrician, plumber and carpenter. He is also a metalworker. For any that doubt 70hack's VT "cred" (credibility) this metal is from removed electrical boxes. This is recylcing the way it should be.
Here you can see the home-bent box parts protecting the wires from errantly driven screws.
Here you can see the home-bent box parts protecting the wires from errantly driven screws.
Here is the panel schedule (listing of what circuit breaker number controls which loads). Look closely.
Here we tested our new heat gun. We kinked a piece of PEX tubing. Then we hit it with 1,100 degree hot air for 60 seconds and voila! The kink is gone.
Here is the after picture (no, we did not take a picture before kinking it, this heating really works). Perhaps a reader with a degree in chemical engineering can explain why cross-linked polyethylene has this memory.
Billn powered up the new electrical panel from the old panel. Since it is open, we are protecting workers with this dielectric cardboard.
Here we tested our new heat gun. We kinked a piece of PEX tubing. Then we hit it with 1,100 degree hot air for 60 seconds and voila! The kink is gone.
Here is the after picture (no, we did not take a picture before kinking it, this heating really works). Perhaps a reader with a degree in chemical engineering can explain why cross-linked polyethylene has this memory.
Billn powered up the new electrical panel from the old panel. Since it is open, we are protecting workers with this dielectric cardboard.
Billn bought new shoes today. We won't refer to them as Shirlsd does as "fabu" since we don't live on the West coast. If Chris G. sees this, he can feel happy billn now owns the same brand of shoes as he.
9 comments:
Stacy says it is "Walla"!
So how many feet/miles (not meters) will be used when the project is completed?
Cindy
LOL!!! i am posting THAT pic on my blog. had a great chuckle before getting ready to start my weekend. (btw, nice shoes!)
6.02 X 10^23 may have been better for shirlsd, but we have only so much space on the board.
Cindy: We have 1,500 feet of 14-2 wire, 500 feet of 12-2 wire and 500 feet of 14-3 wire in the house, plus about 300 feet of thermostat wire and 200 feet of telephone wire and about 100 feet of cable TV wire.
Also, we bought 10 pounds of each size drywall screws (3", 2.5", 2" and 1-5/8").
billn said "Perhaps a reader with a degree in chemical engineering can explain why cross-linked polyethylene has this memory."
yes, perhaps.
Oh snap. I am writing a letter to shirlsd's fancy college telling them to revoke her degree.
billn says billn is "...writing a letter..." - so needless to say, billn should ask jenm to check the spelling.
and to the cross-linked whatchama-stuff, i say polymers-shmolymers!
Irregardless of shirlsd's belief, billn's spelling is better than the Brooklyn Barrister's and that is good enough.
May be better than the BB but is it better than the HUMAN DICTIONARY's?
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