Drywall Taping and a bunch of other things.

Well I  have been pretty busy here on  the acerage for the last couple of weeks. My pictures are definately not in any particular order, but I have been fighting with photos for hours here now, and still don't even have them all up.

I did do a little trucking. Not much but a few days since the last post.

The above photo is the new gasline going to the house. The gas line is 1/2" yellow jacket copper tubing. I purchased 50 feet from Neufeld and got them to put ends on it. The length worked out pretty good.

I did'nt shop around real well for the copper tubing, but the stuff costed about 3.80 a foot. Copper is expensive. I never did get my gas inspection yet. I called the inspector, but he did'nt show yet. I did bury the gasline and got that out of the way.

I managed to get my exhaust and combustion air intakes up on the furnace(The white pvc pipes). I added some hangers that are a little bit nicer looking than hay wire, since this picture. Pvc pipe for exhausting a furnace could be something that not all have seen before. Furnaces are so effecient now days, that they can exhaust through plastic pipes. I'm not a furnace expert, but most older furnaces have a b-vent type chimney and not pvc pipes that go out through a wall.   

 

Did a little more on the battery box until I ran out of supplies for it. The one inch pvc pipe is going to be the air intake from outside. It is routed down closer to the bottom of the box and will have a can of some kind under the pipe to catch any condensation if any. I'm thinking that the intake air should help the gasses to  escape out the top. Who knows, maybe it will just make things more prone to ignition and explosion. I don't think so though.

Permanently attaching the back rest of the battery box down.

Had some truck repairs to do. Changed the brakes, caliper and rotor on this one side. I hav'nt quite gotten to the other side yet. The old chevy is just about due for some new skins pretty soon also. It seems to be never ending. lol. Been using the dodge lately, but neither one turned a tire for just about a week now.

Here I was permanently attaching some plumbing for the water system in the basement. It was pretty awkward without a vice. I got stirring around in some of my auction purchases over the years to see if I had a vice. lol. I found one right away, so I quickly rigged it up onto a wood pad. It worked good. I could'nt remember if I had bought one or not. I used to go to alot of auctions and buy anything I thought was a good deal. It pays off at times. I have been doing alot of smaller jobs along the way, some not even mentioned in this post. I usually work on one project until I run out of supplies, then write down what I need on my list, then move on to the next project and so on. I hate going to town for just a few little things, so I try to make sure I have a big list when I do go. Usually going to town consists of a full day. I really thought I would have been doing alot more drywall mudding by now, but I just tried my hand at it for the first time today(Saturday, June 16).

I think I'm going to concentrate on the bathroom for now. That way maybe I can practice and  learn if I can do something different as I go through the different stages of the drywall mudding process to make things better. Also, I would like to have a bathroom soon. lol. The shower in the rv works, but it is pretty tight and awkward.  I actually think I am going to work on just about finishing the bathroom completely, before even mudding other areas of the house. We'll see though. My plans do sometimes change without notice. I think the taping has been going ok by the way. Not real sure though. I know that I sure seem to get alot of mud all over everything else including myself.

 Traction has been pretty busy too. I don't know what's in the wood shed, but she seems to spend alot of time there. She does keep pretty busy mousing and chasing squirrels or what ever around. She's a dog of two names. Although her real name is Traction, it some how evolved into Hoolio somewhere along the line. I usually only use the name Traction when I take her to the vet, or on my blog, but I call her by the name Hoolio, (pronounced more like oolio).  Both names are on her name tag. Just thought I would mention that.  

 

Disclaimer--IMPORTANT

This is a personal blog, mainly for my own use. I am building a house with my own two hands, but I am learning alot of things as I go. I do not claim to know what I am doing, or if anything I do is even close to being done correctly or safely. So please, if you are planning on using any of my ideas or methods for your own use, please get professional advice before actually following through with your actions. I will not be held responsible for any injuries or damages of any kind caused by information or comments from this blog.

 

Furnace Installation Mostly.

I'm still playing around with furnace stuff. I did'nt do alot with it over the weekend. Went into town on Saturday thinking I was going to pick some needed items up, but as usual, it just was'nt that simple. I had to wait until Tuesday to go into the furnace shop, as it was a long weekend here in Canada. So I played around with various other things instead of all furnace stuff.

I had some company come over on Monday, and they brought some goodies to bar b que. All I had for a b b que was my ancient old piece of junk that was'nt working so well anymore. But I did have a brand new one not even assebled yet, stashed away in the garage. It's been there for a couple years now I think. We quickly put it together anyway. Nice. I've been meaning to get this baby together for some time now.  

The battery box all painted and almost ready for action.

The plenum for the furnace needs a little modifications in order to fit under the stairs. This was quite a job.

Still modifying the plenum.

The finished product.

There it is sitting on the furnace under the stairs. Nice fit.

Now I gotta cut a hole in the front of the plenum and join this 90 degree elbow up with the plenum. There is another piece that goes in between the two. I'm not real fond of this furnace installation stuff and can't wait until I am workingon a  new stage of the house project. The almighty drywall mudding is still patiently waiting for me.

It's been raining pretty steady here all day yesterday and today. The river is flowing pretty wild again.

 

 

 

Disclaimer--IMPORTANT

This is a personal blog, mainly for my own use. I am building a house with my own two hands, but I am learning alot of things as I go. I do not claim to know what I am doing, or if anything I do is even close to being done correctly or safely. So please, if you are planning on using any of my ideas or methods for your own use, please get professional advice before actually following through with your actions. I will not be held responsible for any injuries or damages of any kind caused by information or comments from this blog.

 

 

 

 

Battery Box Detail and Painting.

This is the battery box. Mom painted this and all the other pieces of the box, and a fine job she did. Thanks mom. It is pretty hard to see the actual color with the lighting, but in real life it is a nice color. I like it. This box is 5 feet long, 28" wide and 22" high. It is designed to fit 12  420 Amp hr, 6 volt batteries. These batteries are about 17" tall.

 This is the top of the back rest, and I'll call this the hydrogen gas compartment. Hydrogen gas is lighter than air and it rises. There is a cover that will be screwed onto the top of this when it is all in production, and a pipe coming right off the top and going directly to the outdoors. I will also have income air going into the box from outside and to somewhere closer to the bottom of the box.

The bottom of the back rest. And the lid for the main battery compartment.

This is nothing to do with batteries. I thought while mom was painting stuff, I might as well whip up a furnace platform for her to paint also.

My brain was mostly doing planning and thinking today, in between little things here and there. This is going to be the furnace return air vent in the living room on the main floor. Gotta cut  an air passage in the floor the length of this framing. That's just about 4 feet.

Just a shot of some of the ducting once assembled. Well I'm back to town in the morning for some more goodies I guess. I wanted to have some ducting hung, but then I did'nt have any of the outlets that will come off the top of the main ducting. Don't know how big to cut the holes or what shape etc. I think it would be alot easier to do it all on the ground.


Disclaimer--IMPORTANT


This is a personal blog, mainly for my own use. I am building a house with my own two hands, but I am learning alot of things as I go. I do not claim to know what I am doing, or if anything I do is even close to being done correctly or safely. So please, if you are planning on using any of my ideas or methods for your own use, please get professional advice before actually following through with your actions. I will not be held responsible for any injuries or damages of any kind caused by information or comments from this blog.

Furnace ducting, Battery Box, Inverter.

I think I got that gas line leak conquered. It's still holding pressure. Today was another run all over town day. I had to go to the furnace place and come up with a plan for a piece of ducting  for them to build me. As my furnace is going under the stairs in the basement, some things with the ducting are not going to fit together with ordinary parts.

This is the plenum which comes off the top of the furnace, and a what ya ma call it that connects to the plenum. And they are in the process of making me a 90 elbow to come off the what ya ma call it. That's what I call it anyway, cuz I forgot its real name.

 And a bunch more ducting that I did'nt yet assemble. I have been trying to get this furnace in, then all the gas appliances, except the stove, will be in. Then I can get things inspected and  maybe utilize some of this for my drywall mudding. It still gets pretty chilly at night sometimes. The other night was pretty close to freezing. I hear that when mudding, things need warmer temps in order to set right, I guess. I sure don't plan on running my new furnace while things are real dusty, but my 2 propane heaters will probably be utilized in the evenings while I am mudding.

Dinners getting closer to that frying pan all the time.

Real close.

I almost forgot to show my battery box. It looks and sits kinda like a bench. I talked mom into coming over tomorrow to give it a shot of paint. I picked up a can of paint today that was less than half price because the tint was wrong for somebody. So the color will be what it is.  I want to paint it inside and out in hopes of helping to seal and preserve it. There will supposedly be a little sulphuric acid fumes floating around in there and hopefully they don't leak out into the house. This box will have a vent line going directly to the outdoors.  Wanted to get a picture of it before the paint.

        Oh ya, and over to the left a bit is my 24 volt magnum inverter hanging on the wall. I don't know if anyone thinks the same as myself, but that bit of solar equipment is kinda purty hanging on the wall. That inverter takes the power from my batteries and turns it into nice clean pure sinewave energy. It runs two hot legs of power, which means that it makes my house just about as normal as anyones, as far as power is concerned. I don't plan on running anything on 240 volt power, but if I wanted to, I could do it with this one inverter. It used to be that you would have to stack two inverters for two legs of power, but not anymore. This helps me wire up my breaker panel. If this inverter only ran one hot leg, I would only be able to use half of my breakers. I guess I could probably modify something in there to correct that(not sure though), but this is a more normal way of doing it. Possibly I may sound like I know my power, but in all reality, I hav'nt a clue. lol. Someone, please wish me some luck. Well ok I do have a bit of a clue, but I aint no pro.


Disclaimer--IMPORTANT


This is a personal blog, mainly for my own use. I am building a house with my own two hands, but I am learning alot of things as I go. I do not claim to know what I am doing, or if anything I do is even close to being done correctly or safely. So please, if you are planning on using any of my ideas or methods for your own use, please get professional advice before actually following through with your actions. I will not be held responsible for any injuries or damages of any kind caused by information or comments from this blog.