This time, it’s not a solar installation, but rather wiring a custom off-grid house for a customer who we built a large solar system for some time ago.
This is the same house that we did the electrical panels and dirt work on several months ago.
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Here’s what happens when the local owls decide your unfinished house is a good place to hang out.
I’m not sure pictures do justice to the amount of mess they have made.
This house is a SIP (Structural Insulated Panel) construction, so it requires some special and rather tedious rough-in procedures for the perimeter walls.
The walls are basically thick blocks of styrofoam sandwiched between two layers of OSB. real high R values, real tight building envelope, and a real pain to work with. 😄😄
Here’s Denise thrilled with cutting in an outlet box location.
Here’s what the wall looks like with a cutout made. You can see the round chase-ways that are pre-formed in the insulation that act as conduits that you have to line up your outlet boxes with.
Here’s a tool I have a love/hate relationship with.
It’s better, easier, and lighter than the classic old corded Milwaukee Hole Hogs, and has some cool advanced safeties-but if you’re not careful it’ll still kick your ass and knock you off your ladder. 😄😄😬 I made a lot of chips with it today.
There’s not a whole lot more to show at this point, as we have spent a lot of time with the homeowner going over parts, plans, equipment, and moving a bunch of things around-kinda standard in a custom home.
Here’s a cool photo we took of the place.
