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They finished sanding last Friday 37 days after they were supposed to start what was sold a 3-day job, they have at finally cleaned out the trash. The two piles of junk that were left for a week, for the record, it was done in entirely 5/8 sheetrock so this is the heavy stuff...

Yea it's unfortunate how bad the GC has managed this, the drywall crew is pretty nice and do good work. But it's still faster than if I were to do it myself so trying to stay glass half full

The last 3 months have been a little hectic. The mini's got (nearly) finished installed. When planning the lower unit's head we thought the lines could zig-zag behind the unit and then out the wall, unfortunately that was a false assumption found after hanging the single sheet of sheetrock and...

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We're close to heat. My neighbor who does commercial AC/R came over and got started on the mini's install and got a list of parts needed to finalize. I'm hoping to have the lower running by the end of this week. The Gree unit upstairs has a wired thermostat and I could not for the life of...

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't get a notification and hadn't checked in in a few months, obviously. My contractor was "turn key" for the building, dryed it. I made a few selections for upgrades, the 3x4 awning windows downstairs, the second I-beam for zero posts and the 12ft ceiling. The...

Been a whirlwind of a few months with family, funcar and shop work... I'm going to switch to "project grouping" some of the updates as I bounced around the last few months as things got "stopped" or "prioritized" due to weather. Insulation: DONE I finished the last bit of insulation just...

Perlite fill is going very slow due to limited access, definitely a plan ahead thing for future/new builds as this would have been WAY easier before the framing. I had some hours in the day yesterday without wife/kids so I went back to the R30 install upstairs. The R30 mountain is...

Initial inspections with my laser thermometer were a ~5° differential from the center of 7 filled voids at the bottom row to an empty void just past the filled ones. I suspect over the ~215sqft of filling the advantages will be notable. This was on a 96° day on the north wall which only sees...

Well good news. I found a local supply house, a local Feed and Seed style mom and pop shop that had 4cuft bags of Perlite in stock. I snagged a few on my way home to see how it would work and so far, well enough. I'll see how far these first 5 go for the fill and supplement up to the 10...

So mostly present day, I don't have any photos of the trench backfilled, but yall can use your imagination. The final electrical inspection went smoothly, the feeder was buried ~4" then had caution tape laid down with a little extra dirt on top. The 1" conduit was then put in at ~14-16"...

Insulation/air sealing continued. As previously mentioned I planned the rafter bays to be filled with R30 Rockwool. When I placed my order with a local supply yard for my 2nd story Rockwool I planned R30 for the bays and R23 for the Collar ties as they are 2x6, their was too good to be true...

None ran yet. I buried a 1" conduit from the house to the shop over the power feed that finished this last Monday. I expect an Ethernet out to the shop and possibly some low voltage alarm for smoke/heat alarms back to the house maybe. My mesh wifi network wasn't strong enough when testing...

Insulation and air sealing: So when I was planning to build the garage myself I caught the "full air sealed" building concept for efficiency as I plan to heat/cool the space year round here in the Mid-Atlantic 4 season weather. My no frills builder wanted nothing to do with Zip sheathing and or...

Welp... I've done a terrible job of paying back with updates what I've gotten from GJ, so I'm going to start getting this thread back current. The contractor I used for the structure offers exactly zero auxiliary, no electrical, no plumbing, etc. As soon as they said they got the final...

Cheap single sizes on Amazon don't seem bad, I figure for a single use it's only gotta work once. Working a "live" box there's less risk was my thought nice a drill and hole saw. The boss (wife) would be really pissed if I accidentally cut the power to the house with a hole saw for saving a...

I planned to, but looking for the best solution to get from the right large KO in the bottom of the LC to outside. A double LB body looks to interfere with the exterior conduit for the meter feed if aligned with the KO in the LC. A trough or box interior would have to be offset from the...

I'm going to have to host them and update tonight. I can't get more photos via attachments EDIT: Hosted in post #2

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So I have a semi complex (in my google searching/forum reading) where my house main LC is overlapping the exterior meter box reducing my options. The existing Main LC installation makes it more or less inaccessible to any of the rear KOs either from interference with the meter on the exterior...