So this week I got to spend a bit more time working on the cabin… about a day and a half down there… Here is the list of things taken care of this week :
1) More finishing of the second floor drywall 2) shelves added to the second floor closets 3) Stainless steel chimney installed… boy was this fun… 4) Installed part of first floor ceiling drywall 5) put a cabinet on the kitchen wall that we got from my mother-in-law’s pantry 6) stopped out to the Amish tin smith who made the chimney… ordered the rest of the parts to finish the job… 7) cleaned up some wind damage from IKE to one of the mapples… next years firewood… we have several more to cleanup around the property.
another busy week… It seems like we are finally getting things done
1) the 4 x 4 post have been moved into place (first two photos) and I did a little sanding on them as the are going to be left exposed with a island in between them 2) second floor ceiling has been primed showing many areas that need more attention to the drywall… this will be looked at soon 3) dry-walled the bedroom wall and installed electric in it. this was enough to get the second floor electrical hooked up to the main panel. so now the whole cabin’s electrical is setup 4) screwed down a couple of squeaks in the floor along with adding a couple of of scabs in between flooring joists on the second floor in between sub flooring sheets. 5) sanded down some 1 x 6 hemlock (just a little… I wanted to leave the saw marks while removing the ruff sections) and installed them as trim for the closet areas. 6) we put in a order for some larch 4×6’s and some 1 by’s to finish off the second floor
again… busy busy busy…
we still need to get the chimney installed… to much rain… then do the first floor drywall… hopefully soon…
1) The first coat of mud is on the ceiling and we put primer on about a quarter of the ceiling so we can see where we need to spend extra time on the mudding. 2) We sprayed on a coat of sealer on the siding. 3) Installed the replacement 4×4 post to support the second floor (third photo – the post to the left will be removed and another one will be placed about 4 feet to the right). 4) Installed the rest of the second floor sub-flooring and studwall for bedroom 5) split the wood we got last week and picked up some pallets to put the wood on.
Long time no update. Family life has been busy… wedding… birthdays…
So what have we been doing with the cabin…
Almost finished the upstairs drywall. We were short one piece. Then we will put up the half wall on the kids side and the full wall on our side.
We also wired the last of the downstairs lights, wired in two more batteries into the solar battery bank, and put the first coat of sealer on the front porch.
We also are starting to think about winter. We setup the tractor to use the brush hog so we could get at some cherry and maple we cut up last year. We should be getting the wood stove in sometime in the next couple of weeks and putting more firewood up.
So we went down again today and accomplished a couple of things.
1) Hooked up the power to the first floor. I ran into a small problem with the inverter. It has two AC out breakers and hookups. The second one was only putting out 90 volts… not sure what the problem was. I ended up wiring both planes of the panel to the one AC output on the inverter that is putting out 120 volts… I will look more into this. 2) Installed 2 2 x 8’s to extend the one bedroom an extra two feet. 3) while picking up the 2 x 8’s we loaded the truck up with sawdust from the mill to put on the road back which is a bit wet… maybe after 50 more loads the road will stay dry 4) Put up more drywall
some notes on the solar performance :
Mac watts 256 / Mac VOC 60.8 / Max Bat 15 – so far we have generated 1 kilowatt that went into the batteries and they are currently full.
On the day when we generated the most power we generated 19 ah / .2 kwh 7.6 Vp / 7.7 Ap / .11Kwp Max Battery 14.6 Lowest Battery 12.6
We have not used to much power yet so I expect once we do for my numbers to go up when we use more of the battery capacity up.
Also need to build the battery box. (each battery is 10” x 7” x 12” (h) – this is more for me so I remember the dimensions 🙂
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