{"id":564,"date":"2012-01-14T06:34:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2012-01-14T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T19:02:11","slug":"porch-renovation-1616-imagine-our-surprise-to-hear-our-garage-door-open-while-we-were-having-a-late-lunch-on-saturday-january-7-the-electrician-had-come-to-re-do-the-outlet-near-the-future-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/14\/porch-renovation-1616-imagine-our-surprise-to-hear-our-garage-door-open-while-we-were-having-a-late-lunch-on-saturday-january-7-the-electrician-had-come-to-re-do-the-outlet-near-the-future-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Porch Renovation 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Porch Renovation 16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Imagine our surprise to hear our garage door open while we were having a late\u00a0 lunch on Saturday, January 7.\u00a0 The electrician had come to re-do the outlet near the future gas stove and to install an outlet in the garage ceiling for the garage door opener.\u00a0 Dave said it might mean that the insulation would, indeed, be sprayed on Monday and Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sunday afternoon, the architect phoned to express his displeasure that the ceiling in the new room was going to be fiber glass bats surrounding the recessed canister lights.\u00a0 After much discussion and the builder\u2019s research on the inter-net,\u00a0 we decided to go with closed cell foam spray on the ceiling and the walls.\u00a0 Apparently, this technique is air and vapor-proofed.\u00a0 It will not allow moisture to seep into the ceiling area, inside or outside.\u00a0 Everyone seemed happy about this decision, except that the insulation will not be installed until\u00a0 Monday, the 16th; which in turn, meant that the drywall, due to be delivered on Wednesday the 11th and installed on the 12 and 13th, would be delayed a\u00a0 week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To add insult to injury, my laptop that was just repaired for $90\u00a0 doesn\u2019t work and will be returned to Lytespeed for further work.\u00a0 It has taken me years to get\u00a0 people to depend on me\u00a0 to broadcast messages, media releases, and minutes of various organizations.\u00a0 Now, without an accessible computer, I\u2019m up the proverbial creek without a paddle.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Wednesday, the builder sent us an e-mail advising us that the insulation would begin on Friday, possibly Thursday.\u00a0 At the time I wondered:\u00a0 Did he mean this Thursday\/Friday\u00a0 or next week or, possibly, next spring.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, the builder was here for a short while.\u00a0 He completed the east wall, so it now goes all the way up to the ceiling, covering up the part of the roof beam that connects to the original garage ridge beam.\u00a0 He also installed a\u00a0 tube for the big ceiling exhaust fan to exit room moisture.\u00a0 I think our project must be a\u00a0 part-time or hobby\u00a0 for him.\u00a0 I realize that as long as he has our project to work on, he has money coming in and something to do.\u00a0 To me, it is a job to get done and get on with my life, enjoying our comfortable cottage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Late Friday morning (Yes, it is Friday the 13th).\u00a0 JAB Construction arrived to start spraying closed cell foam on the walls and ceiling of our cottage, as well as the garage side of the cottage\u2019s east wall.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On paper, January 13th is when the whole project was to be completed, but,\u00a0 guess what!\u00a0 We\u2019re having a\u00a0 cold spell complete with lots of snow.\u00a0 Fortunately, the plastic cover the builder put across the 9\u2019 sliding door opening is holding up well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Porch Renovation 16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Imagine our surprise to hear our garage door open while we were having a late\u00a0 lunch on Saturday, January 7.\u00a0 The electrician had come to re-do the outlet near the future gas stove and to install an outlet in the garage ceiling for the garage door opener.\u00a0 Dave said it might mean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}