17 February 2016

Sonny & Doug spent most of the day doing small carpentry tasks: finishing the storage soffits, lowering the lower hall and cedar closet ceilings by 1½″, extending the lower hall soffit, furring out the master bath shower walls, and reducing the mechanical room door frame to fit a 2868 vice a 21068 door.  Sonny also duct taped closed all the plumbing and duct work openings to prepare for the blower door test that (I hope) Efficiency Vermont will be performing tomorrow afternoon. Sometime during the morning Dave Todd, our across-the-street neighbor, sanded both Kate’s and our driveways.  Such GREAT neighbors we have!!!!  Late in the day Sonny and Doug put on their sheet rock installers hats once again, working some more on covering main level interior walls.  Now that the major mechanical room equipment is where he wants it, Steve started fabricating the copper piping, valves, and pumps that will link it all together.  Sean came by late morning.  At noon, Craig Powell from East Shore Drywall arrived to estimate the cost for the taping, mudding, and sanding work his company will be doing.  After Craig left, Sean and I carefully checked the interior door list I had put together.  I’d like to say the list was perfect before we checked it, but that would not be accurate.  Took the, now assuredly perfect, list to Goodro’s, only to find that Tim Combs (their door guru) was out sick today.  Stopped at Green Mountain Electric Supply for another wire and goodies fix, then went over to Glen Peck’s shop to steal procure the last AFCI circuit breaker that I need, but that Lowe’s never has.