Got Wire?

Final preparations are underway this weekend to get ready for the insulation. Wow, it is a lot of work. Today (Sat.) we worked eleven hours straight! Tomorrow we hit it again. Overall we had two projects - final stereo/tv wiring, and cleaning up the basement level. Good grief! We hauled countless amounts of scrap wood and plywood and stacked it carefully outside of the house and covered it with tarps. We sorted it all out so we can find and use it as needed later on. But, overall, we really won't be needing that much more wood. After that we swept out everything....what a mess. Tons of dust. Then we took all the power tools, hand tools, nails, bolts, etc upstairs to the screened porch and stashed everything there. Since the screened porch ceiling and walls will not be insulated, we thought this was the best place to keep things out of the way, yet have them on-hand since we use them so much.

Next, we finished the wiring.... Holy Cow! When you wire a house that is three or four stories tall, we can guarantee you that we got plenty of stair and ladder exercise. Must have done thousands of steps. Drilling holes to thread the wire is also part of the deal. The photo gives you an idea just how much wire we used. Jon and Fred gave us our instructions on how to do the job and we took it from there... we hope we did it correctly. We used the entire 1000 ft. roll of wire and then our neighbor Tim, gave us another roll he had left over from his house. So, we guess we used about 1300 ft. This does not count the actual speaker wire. There was another 800 ft of that! Needless to say we are beat. Next update we will tell you about our little discovery at the end of the day that demanded we work another hour!