Week#12 - Electrical

Good morning everyone,

I didn't do much work in the past couple of weeks. I guess I'm tired and I'd rather take it easy because I tend to do a better job when I'm rested. The picture below shows the recroom as it stand this morning. As you can see we took down most of the drywall on the North and West walls.


Recroom so far

We spend the better part of three days connecting the new electrical circuit. I added 7 receptacles, four in the recroom, two in the weight room and one in the furnace room. The one in the furnace room will be used for our central vacuum. The pot lamps in the beams are also functional.  They add a nice atmosphere to our room. The picture below shows the new circuit along with the connections for each receptacle and switch.

Electrical stuff

Everything is now connected and in working order. I ran into some problems when I tried to connect an electronic dimmer to a regular 3 ways switch. I didn't realize that if you use electronic dimmers you cannot hook them up to regular 3 ways switches. This mistake cost me a new switch as I burned the circuit in my electronic switch.

The next step in this project is to continue removing the drywall on the bottom part of the South and East walls and then start putting up the knotty pine on the North wall. Hope everyone has a great week.

Week#11 - A Week Off

Good morning everyone,

This week the blog will be short as we did not work on our recroom yesterday.  We had a snow storm and we decided to spend the afternoon playing outside in the snow.

I'm looking forward to spending the March Break working on the recroom.  I'm debating whether or not to fix our floor. Right now it is sagging about an inch in the middle of the room. I will speak to a friend of mine at work and see what he thinks about this. I'm also thinking about asking a builder in town to come in and give me his impression on how hard it would be to fix this problem. Have a great week everyone.