Sonny and Ian finished shingling and putting the frieze boards on the
south wall of the garage / half bath / kitchen, then transitioned to the east
wall of the garage. I spent the morning
painting east wall trim, caulking the just-installed frieze boards, and
starting to install the weatherproof outlet box just outside the shop exterior
door. Unfortunately, right after lunch
the forecast cold front blew through, bringing with it a monsoon. Sonny and Ian spent an hour moving “stuff”
around in the basement preparatory to putting up more interior walls, but then
flew the coup. Glen Peck arrived with
the rain. He and I retreated to Delores’ dry and air conditioned confines in
order to thoroughly review the house electrical plan, which took all
afternoon. Glen offered several ideas
about how to rearrange circuits to lower the wiring costs and/or comply more
closely with the National Electrical Code / best practices, how to better light
certain locations, and how to reconfigure the sauna / walkway / electrical circuit
to use AWG 14-3 wire vice (very expensive and awkward to use) AWG 8-3 wire to
control the walkway lights from inside the house. [Technical Information Warning! In the
American Wire Gauge (AWG) system, the larger the number, the smaller the wire. The dash -2 and dash -3 indicate how many
conductors are in the wire, not including the ground wire. So a -3 wire has three conductors: Black
(always hot), Red (usually used as the traveler to wire 3-way switches together),
White (the neutral), and the grounding wire (Green). ]
P.S. Nary a mosquito seen today, even when I went for a cool-down plunge
in the lake right at dusk.
