Day Four

The morning was normal for once.

In the afternoon, I spent a significant amount of time trying to confirm the electrical requirements for the new clothes washer. The cutsheet was misleading, and when David and Eric upstairs, had theirs installed some modification was required to the electrical. After two calls to ABT and emails to Eric and Javier, I finally determined that the problem related to the 15amp/240V receptical, and not a standard 120V.

Brian and I both worked late. We had dinner delivered to Brian’s office and then trekked home. Inspecting the day’s work, we found a considerable amount of electrical work complete, the other wall demolished, and the framing for the furred-out section of wall started. We were very encouraged by this progress. And then… we started finding problems. After measuring each and every electrical location and modification, we found that the framing didn’t leave the proper space for the washer and dryer, the conduit for the electrical outlet conflicted with the revised dryer exhaust location, we suspected that the gas line need to be moved to accommodate the exhaust hood connection. We also found that the subfloor in the den was damp—at a location where we have had water damage on the ceiling in the past. During the day, a steady rain was coming from the East—a similar condition to when the past problem occurred. It was about 2 AM by the time I finished and sent an email report to our contractor and an email to the building about our water problem.