Little More

Skipped out Wednesday night to head to the bar.

That’s got to stop. Just doesn’t have the appeal it used to have. Maybe it’s the fact I’m still getting up every night with Lauren and it’s too hard to hit the bar and get up in the middle of the night on a weeknight. Maybe when this project is through, I’ll work on Lauren.

Anyway last night was a work night.

First I replaced the ignitor in the pellet stove. It’s ironic I get all the pellet requirements and costs figured out for the year, then the stove takes a shit. Unfortunately I think ignitor failure is more common than I’ve previously experienced. Last year I replaced it 2 or 3 times. So far once this year. The first 4 years of owning the stove we never lost one. Considering they sell them in multi-packs, I think it’s a sign of things to come. Oh well. It’s only a 30 minute job at most if everything is super annoying.

Once the ignitor was installed and the stove running again, I unloaded and stacked the last half ton of Stove Chow. We now have 3 tons of pellets for the full season. 2 tons of Hamer for the core winter months and a ton of Stove Chow for the shoulder seasons. Hell for the price of the Stove Chow, I would have bought another ton if I had some place dry to keep it.

Finally around 9:30 pm I got back to the shelf. With the right parts I was able to rewire the receptacle. Now it’s a 4 gang box, which will work nicely for the two fridges and the dog fence. Yeah. I said two fridges. In the picture above is a little preview of what’s to come. We’re going to put the two little fridges next to each other and build the shelves around them. It’s quite colossal.

I have doubts the receptacle is up to code. The box I removed was a semi-sealed “water location” plastic box. The box I put in is metal and not sealed. There’s probably some height requirement (off the floor) for basements and “water location” boxes, of which this one (or the one at my water equipment I put in) won’t meet. Of course it won’t be a real problem until we go to sell the house, then some home inspector will point it out and the potential buyers will require us to hire a “licensed” electrician to replace it costing us $200 or so. All because I was lazy and cheap and didn’t want to spend the $2 more for the “water location” boxes and conduit glue. Whatever. That’s a concern I can deal with 20 years from now.

As you can see I started connecting the second half of the shelves. I’m not even done with the first half, but figured getting the entire structure framed out would be good. It’s the hardest part anyway. Having to level and plumb everything so it doesn’t rock or cause things to slide off takes a lot of time. Once it’s all framed up, filling in should go faster.

It better go faster. I’ve already got new projects filling in between this one and getting back to the trailer.

Looks like we’ll be installing some exterior lighting this weekend.

Stay tuned for that one and more.

There’s always more.

– b