There Shall Be Light ...

What can I say, Mike was here today, and boy, things are getting exciting. We now have light in the kitchen, dish station, wait station, and beer hall, and the exhaust fan of the kitchen hood works.

While Mike was illuminating the place, we continued installing decorative beam cover ...


... and ceiling cover.


Dirk

Sleep Over ...

More beer hall work today, installing drywall, and covering up the center beam. The place is starting to look like something.


We are having a guest stay over right now, our neighbors' dog, a terrier-and-then-some mix (I don't know much about dogs, they have four legs, two ears, a snout). Our daughter (a dachshund-terrier mix) isn't completely down with the idea of another dog in our house yet, but she is slowly adjusting.

Here is a shot of doggy goodness:


Dirk

What's Happening? ...

No post yesterday! What's going on? Well, believe it or not, sometimes there isn't much going on, or at least nothing I consider noteworthy, and on some days nothing happens at all, like in case of yesterday, when I did several shopping trips, all of them frustrating, and that drags down my mood, and I shut down.

Today we actually did some work, but I am not going to tell what we did, because you can figure it out yourself. Yes, another puzzler. So, look at the two pictures below, and find older post pictures to see what changed.



Er, E!, you are disqualified from participation, because you did the work ... xoxoxo.

Dirk

Electrifying ...

What an exciting day, did you feel it, too? This morning Central Hudson showed up again, and connected our new service (six guys in total, one guy working, five guys looking on, but who am I to judge).

Mike (our electrician) was here as well and ready to move some of our existing wiring from the old service panel to the new one, and connect the new wiring. We also disconnected a lot of old wiring, some of which must have been from the great depression era, but definitely not long after that (there is a good reason, why we are getting the whole house rewired).

Pictures say more than a 1000 words, so here you have a picture (now go write 1000 words on what you see). To the right is our old service panel, in the center the main 3-phase panel, and on the left is the sub-panel for the first floor (do you see all the wires going there, amazing).


Mike will be back tomorrow to fire up some outlets, and lights, and a few other things.

Dirk

Selected Shorts ...

More drywall work. We have most of the kitchen ceiling covered. I still keep a small section open so I can run some duct work for the A/C.

Central Hudson was back today, finishing the installation on the pole. Unfortunately they didn't inform Mike (our electrician), otherwise he could have come by today and get our new service hooked up. Tomorrow, maybe, hopefully ...

Dirk

Dish It Up ...

We are moving along on the dish station. E! was doing some drywall taping ...


... while I installed the radiator.


By the way, that purple bucket in the first picture felt like a random and odd gift, when we received it, but it has come soooo in handy. Thank you Amy and Ted.

Dirk

Power Rangers ...

Central Hudson was back again, starting to move the electric wires from the original pole to the new pole. Here you can see them install a second transformer:


Unfortunately they didn't manage to finish the work, so they'll return early next week. And then it's showtime for our new service.

Dirk