Speaking of vapor barrier, Hal had put down 2 pieces a couple months ago, and 2 days ago I helped him put down 2 more. Today we laid out the 3rd piece and a small piece in an odd corner. So the vapor barrier in the crawlspace is down! We still need to secure it along the exterior walls and to the inside posts but we need more tape which is currently "in the mail".
Prior to this exercise of crawling through small spaces, Hal got to work on other important house things like running electric feeder cable to the house from the panel at the utility pole next to our barn. He rented a trencher and made a ~250 foot long trench about 30 inches deep into the garage and up to the new electric panel in what will eventually be the utility room.
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After laying in ~$900 worth of 4/0 aluminum cable and then getting the inspector to come out to check it over and then tell us we also need to run a ground wire between the boxes (on this point the national electrical code is fuzzy, Hal had already done ground wire with ground rods at each end per his interpretation of code but the inspector wanted his version), so another $200 later we were able to fill in the trench and start preparing the garage for concrete.
The other thing before concrete are floor drains. He installed one for each garage door, essentially one for under his vehicle and one for under mine. One will drain out the front and one to the back. This is mainly for snow melt off of our rides. Now we wait for the concrete guy to fit us in sometime this month.
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