Well it was a productive week. I managed to get Mr Professional out on Sunday so we could work on the last wall. The tongue and groove is warped so it is near impossible to install alone as you cannot beat it into submission alone. The wall got sealed again around the window and the rest of the insulation installed around the window. While he did the insulation I crawled up into the attic and installed three junction boxes. I cut the power to the old junction box and then pulled those three lines up into the new attic boxes. I then pulled the feeder lines from the old box, reglued some new turns onto the pipe and rerouted the line to the new junction box. I only had the power off for about an hour. Once the new box was online I had to verify three times that the freezers really had power! That was my greatest fear with switching out the main boxes. I was even able to use a spare piece of the main feeder line to connect both grounding strips together.
We worked on cleaning up the office. It was hard to move around in there with all the trash and tools. We took out one industrial size trash bag out of that single room. The last eight pieces of long tongue and groove we had to just cut in half and cut some bad ends off. It was just too warped to be able to beat into submission. After a few hours we called it done. About half the outlets work in the office now so I should be able to plug in most of the tools and chargers so that I can work in a heated room.
I can work in a heated room now because the heat guys came out during the week and installed the heat pump to the outside of the old house! Since I had turned the power on they were able to complete the install and turn the heat pump on! Annmarie said that it was fairly toasty in the room. I have not even gotten the attic over the room insulated or the inside door installed. Once those two things are done the room should be perfect, not completed yet though. I will still need to sand the floor. I am not going to finish the walls until after I get the floor sanded and sealed. Then I can use air pressure to blow the walls clean and finish them last. I can see the end zone!
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