Sep 3, 06:48 PM
We have air conditioning!!
I don’t have an EPA license to do R-22, so I couldn’t legally finish the install. SO, being not very good at sweating copper anyhow, I decided to contract out this last little bit, though I did the electric and thermostat and condensate drain and pretty much everything else I could. At the last minute (as he was about ready to sweat in the last bit of 3/4” pipe), we realized the unit had to be raised about the FEMA flood plane level, which is even with the top of the concrete blocks… we were talking about building a wooden platform, but decided instead to heft it up on concrete blocks for the time being, and to come back later and brick around the block, which should look pretty nice.
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Sep 3, 06:43 PM
I poured concrete! Mixed it up real ghetto, too, everything was either free or wastage- I had an old ripped up 94lb bag of portland cement I couldn’t return, got a half bucket full of pea gravel from the front walk and a half bucket of sand from a 3-year old sand mount across the street and mixed it up in my wheelbarrow with a pickaxe. Even cut up some leftover rebar and put that in there, too. Turned our pretty good! The evaporator is about 200lbs, we’ll probably move it tomorrow, and hopefully I can get someone with an EPA license to hook up the refrigerant lines and charge the system!
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Sep 3, 06:34 PM
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, building an addition of this size doesn’t happen overnight- I compressed an entire year into the first few posts of this blog. This entry is a lot more indicative of the slow prodding progression. Got some more of the HVAC up, I’m hoping to get all the duct finished this weekend :D
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Sep 3, 06:17 PM
My wife finished grouting the tile in the kitchen and we have all the receptacles up and energized- we’re both very happy with the way it turned out :D I posted a wider shot earlier, before we had the grout or electrical stuff back up, but here’s the tilework around the kitchen window:
And I am officially a sheet metal worker! Code says it’s illegal to penetrate garage walls with ductboard, and requires I use sheet metal for all penetrations. For $6 at Lowes, I bought a 24×36” sheet of #26 steel and formed it with some tin snipes, a pair of pliers and a scrap board into the adapter you see. It turned out well, I’m quite proud of my handiwork, as this was the first time I’d ever done sheet metal bending, and I didn’t have any of the proper tools!
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Sep 3, 05:51 PM
OK, first significant update in a while, as my wife and I have actually both been motivated to do stuff again :D
My wife finished tiling the kitchen and is about 1/3 of the way through grouting it- I think she’s doing a damned good job, too! I’m looking forward to being able to tear the plastic off our counters and clean some of this mess up:
Kitchen, with tile all up and about 30% of it grouted.
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