Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Voilà! A wall


Wednesday, May 18:

Lemonade stand open for business?  My new room is taking shape.

Above and below: Rough wiring for the electrical outlets for this wall. I had to get this wiring in now because the feed had to come through the dining room ceiling joists (below) and these lower coffers are about to become inaccessible.
This is No. 12 romex cable (12 gauge wire). In the photos below, you can see that I ran the cable through the first two joists and then left the rest of it coiled on the dining room floor.  I won't route the cable any farther until I determine where the other outlets will be placed in the new tea room. No sense drilling holes through the joists in the wrong places!
Once I put the wiring into the wall, I could stuff it with insulation the same fiberglass that came out of the old wall.  Above: looking up from the dining room. Below: the same insulation batts viewed from the outside.

With the wiring and insulation complete in the lower wall, I proceeded to cut five panels of 1/2" plywood and nail them into the recessed frames. This Freeman air nail-gun is cool. It will shoot a range of ammo – from 2" nails to 3 1/2".
The sheathed outside wall. The white strip is the top edge of the large, dining-room window. My next step will be to remove some of this scaffolding and clean up the top of that window strip so that I can cover the entire wall with a waterproof barrier.  The flashing will extend down to this dining room window and wrap down the two sides by a few inches – just enough to make a watertight barrier.

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