I got the ceiling in the living room area all blocked and ready for insulation, then drywall, and most of the walls done too, I ran out of time, or I would have gotten the last little bit under one window done.
How do you like my custom light shade
Without it the pics are just washed out by the light, and if I turn off the light, then it's too dark to take a picture. The structure is solid, I can hang from it and it does not budge, so it should take the drywall just fine.
in one wall there is a shutter box, most of the older homes, have sliding widow shutters, they slide out of a pocket on the outside of the house and completely block out the windows, great for darkening rooms in the middle of the day, some privacy and when a typhoon comes. Most of these pockets are, like I said attached to the outside of the wall, for whatever reason, the one on the West side of this apartment is in the wall
This is not really a problem, but I want to insulate the walls, and I am concerned the the bats of insulation could, at some point get tangled up with the sliding shutters, there is not much wood there to keep the bats of insulation out of harms way. True, the bats are stapled to the studs, but stuff happens, so I decided to put some more boards in there.......
...... I think that should do the job nicely.
I also had the electric company over today, to upgrade the service from 20 Amps to 30 Amps, took the guy all of 5 minutes to do
While there, he took a look around and told me that I was doing a good job, and that the electrical was looking fine, he said he has seen some really bad work done by "Professional" electricians, but my work was good, for a renovation, of course for new construction the standard is much different. That kind of made my day, as I'm not really that happy with how it looks, I know it is safe and all of the connections are good, as well as upgrading to the 30 Amp service and spitting things up into four circuits is a big improvement, but still, I think it looks messy
Tomorrow is Thursday, I'll do my best to get a full day in tomorrow, and then only the morning in on Friday, I really hope I'll be hanging drywall early next week, I NEED to get this done.
Cheers!