Howdy Y'all!
This week marked an additional milestone on the march to completion. We have POWER!! The electricians and crew were here this week trenching, digging, pulling, (cursing), and laying two 300 foot lines from the house to the main power panel (by the water tank).
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Real light! Finally! |
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Gabe (Water PM) and Jeff (Builder) discussing the water collection system. |
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Pulling the strands of wire thru the sleeves in the wall. |
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300 feet of electrical cable - twice! |
Along with the electrical work, the Water Tank Guys started work on trenching, laying the water collection perimeter pipe, and preparing to set up the downspouts at various places along the roofline. If you remember from past blog posts, we talked about using rainwater collection as our sole method of providing a water supply to the house. This is becoming more commonplace here in our ranch neighborhood, so pray for rain. We have about 11,000 square feet of roof, which means that we will collect about 650 gallons of water per 1000 square feet of roof for every inch of rainfall. Confused yet?? Here's the equation - 11,000/1000 X 650 X 1 = 7,150 gallons for every one inch of rain. It will take about 7 inches of rain to fill the 51,000 gal tank.
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First of three loads of inventory for water collection. |
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Getting' busy! |
Remember the infamous Rocksaw from one of our original posts? Well, his baby brother is here to dig the trenches for the water collection tubes.
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Baby Rocksaw. |
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Big bad teeth! |
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Trenching for the water line. |
In addition to the electrical and water collection work, the Audio/Video Guys started work this week installing all of the speakers for the in-house audio system. The system design appears complicated, but these guys knew where every wire was in the walls, and assured us that it will be brain-dead easy to operate. I guess we'll find out. (All of the speaker grills and various grates in the walls and ceilings will be painted at a later date, so they won't appear as obvious as they are in the pictures here.)
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Speakers in the Office ceiling. |
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Wall speakers for the Master Bedroom TV/audio. |
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Dining Room in-wall speakers for 'mood music'. |
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Partial TV cabling for installation later. |
But Wait, There's More!
This last weekend we attended the Nationals Cheering event in San Antonio with Jennifer, Tristan and Lauren. Lauren's team was competing, and took First Place in their team event. Nothing better than a happy grandchild!
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Jennifer and Jan |
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One happy child! |
That's all for now! See ya later!
- Jan and John -
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