But not for long.
Everything went amazingly, suspiciously smoothly this morning. Took a long time, of course, and now I’m sore and tired and covered with sawdust.
But also very excited. The addition is enclosed! And after lunch and a bit of a sit, I’m going to tackle the Next Thing…
That window opening must become a door opening. Technically it will be very simple indeed: The window header stays in place and the footer should come out fairly easily. Whether it will or not remains to be seen. There’s a little bit of electrical work, since there’s an outlet box in there but all the wiring is exposed on the bedroom side and I certainly know how to turn off the electricity – sometimes the problem is keeping it on. 🙂
The only tricky bit will be cutting away the interior siding once the framing is out of the way, but I’ve got a fresh sawblade that ought to sail through them nice and quick and straight. If it doesn’t there’ll be a mess that’ll be very hard to fix, but either way it needs to be done. And then it’ll be Miller Time.
Then tomorrow there’s some flashing, and then I start work on siding. I like siding: It’s hard working alone, but it goes pretty quick and makes things look better rather than more hillbilly.
It’s good to see the project coming together. I can’t see any issue with the creation of the door, a couple of minutes with a sawzall should take care of that pretty quick. With the use of DC in the electrical it’s a good thing you are going to cover the box. I know there are no kids around but an open electrical box reminds me of many a child discovering electrical current. Where AC leaves a tingle DC is not as forgiving.
Joel, you show promise as an aspiring contractor. Wanna travel to Wisconsin for a job?
“Where AC leaves a tingle DC is not as forgiving.” I think that Joel’s DC circuits are only 12 volts. I suppose somebody somewhere has managed to get electrocuted by 12 volts, but it certainly isn’t common. (48 volts DC would be a different matter.)
By the way, that subject was once a big public fight between Edison (DC) and Westinghouse (AC).
Edison actually held demonstrations where he publicly electrocuted animals in an attempt to prove the “dangers” of AC. http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-tortured-animals-to-discredit-ac-power/
Ben: and after Eddy’s demos, public opinion swung towards ac. Not that public opinion should have a darn thing to do with the properties of an electrical system.
I once got a tingle with 12 vdc. Lotsa sweaty surface area made for good conduction.