More progress today and we are on the cusp of some significant installations.
I spent more time on the refrigerator cabinet adding some pieces to help secure it to the wall. The cabinet has been built for a while but I didn’t have a plan for actually mounting it. Today I put in a furring strip and a couple brackets that will secure it to the wall.
After working on that cabinet I focused on the wiring that will go behind the cabinet and will otherwise be necessary to put it in. Unfortunately I realized that somehow in Spokane last week we got only 12 ga. wire when I thought I was getting one length of 12 ga. and one length of 14 ga. Not a huge deal – 12 ga. is a heavier wire – but it is a waste of a little space and weight as it is just unnecessary for most of the things I’m wiring. I also didn’t have connectors for 12 ga. wire so that was another trip to Ace.
The wiring behind the refrigerator is looking like a bit of a mess. I have one AC wire for the microwave, one wire for the fridge, one for the lights, and one for a 12v socket. With that many wires it would have been nice to have a little smaller wire to work with!
Sara spent much of the day prepping other pieces.
She painted the frame for our water tank and kept adding polyurethane to the walls. One wall was dry enough to put in so that made some progress on the passenger side. With the wall in we could also put the water tank in place. I want some different screws to install the frame so that will be another Ace trip tomorrow. (I only made two Ace trips today!) Once the tank is in place we can run the water pipe forward to where the sink will go and running that pipe will let us put the toilet cabinet in.
So many of our installations have been temporary, but I think we are about to have some things that stick. Most of the prep work has been done so we can start actually putting things in where they will go. Exciting times!