Roughly moving along again
Furnace
The new furnace has been installed in an alcove in the garage.
Family Room Soffit
Some of the ducting needed to go through the family room, so Steve framed in a soffit for it.
Bedroom Soffit
Similarly, the ducting to heat the upstairs had to run into the bedroom slightly, so it needed to be soffited in as well. Some of the unfilled space will turn into a shelf at either end of the wall.
Chase
The ducting from downstairs passes up through the kitchen into the attic and then feeds the ceilings vents in each room. With furnace and ducting in, we were finally ready for rough inspections of the electrical, plumbing, mechanical (i.e. furnace), framing and shear wall on Wednesday. I took the day off from work to be there for the inspection, since the electrical and water lines were my work. It turned out to be just the right thing to do. The inspector pointed out a few things which he wanted corrected, but signed off all of the rough inspections except for insulation, which we are now cleared to finish installing.
Family Room Windows
The crew finished installing the fire rated exterior sheet rock on the south wall today, which means we’re ready for the last exterior inspection. All that will remain after that are the insulation and final inspections, though we have quite a bit of work to do before we’ll be ready for finals.
