It's been a while since the last post, primarily because actually doing work has taken the place of just watching work get done. In the past month, we've finished off the electrical and HVAC rough-in. In addition, several bulkheads and additional framing components needed to be completed, particularly in the kitchen and hall between the living and kitchen spaces.
Today, as I write, the insulators are at the house installing blown-in cellulose fiber in the existing exterior walls. by the end of the week, we'll have all of the fire blocking completed (unfaced batt insulation 16" from penetrations and bulkhead connection) and the rough inspections will be comlete. We can start drywall!
For now here are a few pics prior to insulation and just before we kick off the drywall installation:
Finished HVAC. Those transitions...yeah, I made them from one piece. Well, a couple I did from one piece. Then I started to run out of long sheets of metal.
I didn't run the vent / intake piping for the HVAC. I'm leaving that and the line sets for the HVAC contractor. But the dryer vent, that was fun. I could barely fit my hand into one of the narrow joists spaces left to run that stuff. Lesson learned: Just cut the darn hole a little bigger than necessary. It makes running those pipes MUCH easier.
These will soon be covered with drywall!
Had to rebuild the stair doorway here, and above you can see the dropped ceiling area in the hall. While it worked out to look pretty good, it was REALLY tight above the ceiling. I had to cut a duct and bend a piece of metal over the 3" plumbing pipe that was in the way. Another lesson learned: Leave yourself a little extra space and life becomes a little easier. Granted, I really didn't have it here...
And below you can see some of the handy bulkhead work in the kitchen. 6 can lights a piece, the kitchens here are going to be dynamite!
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