Tomorrow is a way full day....
Electric guys will be there to finish with putting in the breakers and just a few more plugs and lights. Today, the local electric company came to bring the electric service in from the street. That required a lot of things to all fall in place, so we are elated to have that done. The guys were super cool and easy to talk to. I showed them around, and they were really interested in the geothermal stuff. I was really happy they chose to stay on my painted marks with their backhoe, which therefore missed the geothermal lines in the front yard. I have a pic I will post of the wire, but it was huge, buried in 3 inch conduit 3 feet under the ground. They also dug through the water line and broke it, but it was between the street and the meter, so they had already arranged for that to be fixed, and I didn't get billed for the spill...phew.
Well, here is the picture of the label on the cable spool, but I'm not sure what the gage of cable is... You can read it yourself. The service is 320 Amp, which should be plenty. I am more than ready to light this place up, and stop pulling extension cords everywhere I go. A couple days ago, the temp line I had run actually caught fire where it had been kinked... Fortunately, this happened outside, but it happened at night and nobody was there. Yikes....
Here is the latest round to the dump. This was mostly travertine crates, but also some boxes and trash. Tomorrow, the dirt guys will be doing a "final grade', which consists of a lot of things, but they will grade out the driveway, stack up all the loose rock back on palets, and restage that, move some dirt around, knock out some more brush, and also pick up all the trash and boards laying around. He had to rent a dozer to cut the driveway back down a little bit, and also to push some dirt around here and there, even though his bobcat is a large one. So today, they droped a Cat D4 off, now sitting in my driveway. I wanted to drive it bad.
This is another project I am also complete with. These are the Centralite switches. They hardwire into the Cat5 cable. These are really tediuous to do... A lot of stripping and preparing wire, but also it's easy to mess up where he wires go... Hope I got most of them right.
The backsplash is complete. The tile is from a company in Phoenix that handpaints and fires their tiles like an old antique tile. They are really cool. You probably noticed the vent hood is up, as well... Thanks to our friend Wendy, who held the level while we fastened it. I thought that a good job for one of our visitors, so in case people think the hood looks out of level... Talk to Wendy...
On the side walls of the kitchen, we used a rope transition to tumbled marble (travertine) above. This one isn't quite done yet. Tomorrow they electricians can put in the undercabinet lights, and some spark rings around the outlets.
Another shot of the north kitchen wall. This time the tile is done. Still needs grout, I guess. Oh, that's one more thing you have to pick out... They make a lot of different colors...
And finally, this was the project tonight... Hardware. This is an Emtek Durango passage lever in medium bronze. They are extremely well made, and packaged like jewelry. They are bronze cast in sand and each one is slightly different. They will wear and form variations in the color on them from use.
Oh, one bad thing about them... I figured out tonight that you can push the privacy pin down on the lock, and then close the door, and it doesn't reset the lock... Great, my kids will be locking each other out of their own rooms, which will mean I will have to show them the secret hole that overrides the lock, in which case I just as well didn't need to put privacy handles on at all.... Follow me??
OH, and this is where they cut the water line, you can see the repair. Talking to the electric guys, and they were tellin gme the primay line that comes to the transfomer (in our case, underground) is 7200 volts. The transformer steps that down to lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
