Monday- what a day! The windows were delivered in the afternoon. All of the windows look great- Mike started to put them in and the lower level is complete.
With the creative use of a upside down ladder (shown above) - Casey continued to get the wiring strung as we mounted all of the boxes yesterday. Seems there are alot of blue boxes all over the house to accommodate for power, lights and smoke alarms. Just looking at all of the wiring makes me confused- it looks like spaghetti factory. I know Casey has it under control and knows where all of those wires hook up.
Now we are attempting to find someone to complete the drywall- everyone is busy as is it the season for building.
Tomorrow I go to the electrical association to get us signed up for power- this has been quite a process of "learning their system". MEA wanted to charge us over $36,000 to dig a trench and string a cable for power over the 1000 feet from the existing transformer in the neighborhood. Of course I like to find ways around this expensive endeavor and proceeded to get bids from other contractors. Finally we secured a bid for $30,000 to do the same work- hopefully the neighbors will want to sign up for power and we will get a rebate with every new hookup.
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