Day 70 - more wiring fun...

Not a ton of visual excitement to share I'm afraid. The electricians keep running wire and installing lights, switches and plugs. We made some tweaks today to the placement of things they put in but overall quite happy. Though I am longing for the days of Paul the framer who wouldn't charge for extras so long as they were onsite already. With these guys (and with Jeremy), every extra plug or switch is a change request and an updated quote from the back office. Sigh.

There are two large additions that they are taking on. First is a result of the work we had Paul do to raise and re-enforce the ceiling in the living room. He had to 'sister up' (attach in parallel) some ceiling new joists with the existing ones to add strength and keep them from dropping further. As luck would have it every single wire running to the 2nd floor ran through those joists and had to be cut out. As a result, Daniel and his guys now have you fish new wire to all the rooms upstairs, which was definitely not in the original scope. On top of that, after learning from Rogers that they do not fish coax through your house, I asked Hotwire to run 5 outlets to the new parts of the house. Again, not in the original scope. 

Dan also told me that he believes that the ESA inspector will not go to the basement to complete the inspection without proper stairs in place - figures - so Jeremy has offered (at some expense I'm sure) to add a couple stairs to the bottom along with a railing in the interim. 

Aiming for plumbing and electrical inspection Friday. 

Living room pot lights

Daniel marking out the location of the fixture in the middle of the family room

Kitchen wall, hole in the top left is the vent for the stove