The MacDeskBlog

Lumber arrived mid to late morning on Friday. By the time we got there Saturday morning, the office wall and the bathroom/utility room wall were both finished. This was great news for me, since it meant I could run wiring throughout. Michelle had already nailed up most of the outlet and switch boxes, and had run some of the wires between the boxes. I nailed up the outlet boxes which go into the new walls, and pulled the remaining wiring through to connect up the boxes.

Then I ran the wires to connect each circuit to the new service panel which isn’t mounted yet. The hard part of that turned out to be Sunday morning, when I discovered that the 1″ holes I asked the crew to drill through all of the studs at 18″ high are only large enough to handle about 3 pieces of 12-2 w/ground Romex. Great for most places, but insufficient in the north wall, where I had to run circuits for the office, the family room, the utility room & bathroom, the master bedroom, and a dedicated 10-3 w/ground for the dryer outlet. I had to drill additional holes through the floor joists most of the way. Fishing cables through holes in the corners was also not really in the fun column, but everything came through okay ultimately.

The closet walls didn’t go up though, as Steve underestimated the number of studs he needed. They should go in Monday afternoon or Tuesday at the latest. Since they’re still laying on the floor or not built yet, I couldn’t finish the garage circuit nor the family room circuit, but the last few strands will go in quickly once the walls go up.