Anyway, back to our SIP house project.
We finished the rough in, finally!-after several weeks of issues, setbacks, and challenges.
First of all, even though most of our jobs come with some frustrating challenges, they also come with lots of fresh air and spectacular views.
Our work trailer was nice enough to show us it appreciated all of our recent attention to it by shitting its water pump. 💩
Luckily, we’ve played the RV game for too many years, and we know that water pumps seem to be one of those things that just fail randomly and frequently-so we carry a spare and we’re back up and running in short order.
This time what failed on the pump turned out to be the micro switch, which I just happened to have some of at the shop, so the failed pump was rebuilt and put back in the trailer as a spare.
Our challenges with missing, damaged or misplaced vertical chase ways in the SIP walls required some, ahh, creative solutions. I’m not gonna say just what those solutions entail, but I will show you a picture of Denise preparing one part of that solution. Draw your own conclusions. 😄😄😬😬
After spending seemingly forever just preparing to wire the house, we were finally able to actually start pulling wires. It turns out that pictures of house rough is are actually pretty unimpressive. 🤷♂️ So I tried to get some that at least looked cool.
Here’s all the home runs at the sub panel awaiting termination.
And here is the sub panel all made up and just awaiting breakers at trim out time.
The mess that process left on the floor was pretty impressive. 😬
Here’s the data/power boxes we set them up with for their living room entertainment center.
And this is the main data/power box for the data/entertainment hub room.
This is a junction box we set up to deal with getting the circuits out of the main panel, which is mounted on a SIP wall and required special attention.
Here’s a couple of rather busy switch boxes. 😬
And here they are all tamed and made up and ready for switches.
Some random pictures of how we ran the wires. You probably not be surprised to find we’re pretty particular on how they are ran. No spiderweb of randomly strewn romex here.
Some 6000’ feet of romex, 3000 Milwaukee staples( BTW-Milwaukee cable stapler for the win. Finally a cable stapler worth owning!),300+ nail plates, and waaaay too many hours later-this rough in was complete.
No time to celebrate though-we cleaned up as the sun set on yet another long day and readied the trucks to move first thing in the morning for what would be a marathon run battling adverse weather to do the next job in an impossibly short amount of time. 😬😬