Millwork and electric, day 65

No, not really, it just seems that way. It was a productive day. Paul finished installing all the base molding in the areas to be carpeted. Gap filling and painting have followed and the work looks good. We should easily be ready for carpet installation on Tuesday.

Electric work continued too. We started with a mild crisis this morning when Paul decided to find two buried fixtures - the powder room light above the sink and the light above the landing for the basement stairs. First the half bath light - Paul was looking for an electrical box and not finding one drilled a couple of extra pilot holes to look. Eventually he wondered if there really was a box at all or just a loop of wire, and he enlarged the very first hole made. And there was the wire. He pulled it out. Later Al mounted a box there, and Paul attached the fixture so we finally have light in the powder room. He also has some extra pilot holes to fill. :-(

The bigger problem was the light above the stairs. Paul realized that the garage wall backed up on the stairs, and it occurred to him to just cut out part of the unfinished drywall in the garage and just patch it back up later. Well, two big squares and loads of insulation later, Paul finally found the wire coming up from the switch and followed it.....way past the point where any box could possibly be. The wire was heading off toward the bottom of the basement stairs where the other 3-way switch for the light was. There was no hot feed to the switches, and there was no box. Damn. Now we have a problem. We have to get a feed from somewhere, install a box and wire it. This stinks.

Kathy was thoroughly unimpressed with the cutting. What else to do, though; it's not we can just magically know where everything is. Some of this stuff wasn't photographed.

Paul cleaned before he left today. So here's what all happened.



Just being a 3-year-old is hard work. Ashley crashed on the dining room floor.



Helping fill gaps in the molding joints.



The completed family room wearing its new shoes. :-) Each one of those arches required nine pieces of base molding.



One side of the living room.



Other side of the living room. The radio doesn't get to stay there, but at least it's off the part of the floor that will be carpeted It was keeping Paul company tonight with '50s music from Toronto's AM 740 CHWO.



Down the hall



The kitchen and dining room, from the family room.



The new driveway.



The new walkway from the driveway to the front door.

Tomorrow? Millwork painting will continue in the carpeted areas. Paul will probably start installing in the vinyl areas for lack of anything better to do.