7 February 2016
Well,
I had every intention of cleaning the lower level of the new house today. Best laid plans, etc. After getting the blog posted and catching up
on the house construction finances, installed 1½″ Blueboard® around the sauna pocket door to slow down some
serious air intrusion we’ve been experiencing.
With the outside temps around freezing haven’t been able to get the
sauna much above 180° lately (somewhere between 185° and 200° is about optimal). Then it was off to Burlington to find that,
once again, Lowe’s didn’t have any Square D QO 20 amp plug-on-neutral circuit
breakers in stock. If that sounds like
Greek to you, imagine my surprise when the person staffing the electrical
department said the same thing.
Stopped at The Lighting House in Shelburne on my way back south and,
once again, they had everything I was looking for… and at very competitive
prices. That’s not to say that I didn’t
leave half a grand on the table when I walked out, but at least now I have the
closet and accent lighting fixtures that have been holding up the ceiling
drywall installation. Perry and Steve
came for our weekly sauna. Lit the fire
at 4:30. At 5, with the door to the
dressing room open the whole time, the sauna was up to 130°. At 5:30 it was at 190°. When we entered the compartment
shortly after 6 the dial read 217°… and eventually topped out at 223°. Obviously, the air intrusion
problem has been solved! Now 223° is
pretty toasty. So toasty, in fact, that
the Blueboard® on the sauna side of the pocket door partially melted, thereby causing
the door to almost stop working.
Ooops! Me thinks we may be going
back to the drawing board…
