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I CAN HAS GIANT WINDOW!
It's so cool you can have another picture, taken right before I walked to work this morning. This one has sunshine and everything:
It works from the inside, too:
My coworker helped me pick up all the drywall (26 sheets, oh, my aching arms) Wednesday, which was the last thing we were waiting for before the window. Not that drywall and windows usually have anything to do with each other, but because it was far easier to have Nancy back her truck up to the open window hole than it would've been to carry the drywall around the entire house. For awhile I was afraid we'd have to tear open all the drywall pairs so we could move it one sheet at a time, but the home depot guy and I persevered, and got it onto the cart and then onto the truck, and Xed and E were waiting at home to help unload.
Now the drywall gets to sit there for weeks while we try to figure out the electrics, which is what we started in on Sunday. We didn't have a lot of time -- we have three gigs in November, so band rehearsal HAD to happen, and we got a late start -- but we bought a whole bunch of boxes and I decided on an outlet height, so I can start drilling holes in studs and wiring the receptacle circuits. I'm still very confused about LED floods, how many I'll need, what kind of cans, etc, so we can't start wiring for lights just yet, but the idea is to get the studio wiring as complete as possible without actually attaching it to the panel, and then redo the panel.
I have no idea how that's going to work, because my options are "Several days without electricity" or "hire a licensed electrician," neither of which appeal to me.
Installing the window was a pain in the butt, by the way. The four little ones were easy peasy, despite needing to use ladders. With the big one the bendiness of the vinyl comes into play, and trying to get it in square without any torque such that both vents slide easily was a finicky nightmare. We eventually called it good after an hour and a half, despite the vents not being quite as smooth as the identical professionally-installed one in the living room, because we were pretty sure we could keep tweaking it all day without any improvement.
Mom came to help with the giant-window-hoisting part, and she did a bunch of ivy-and-blackberry clean-up, too, so that was cool. It did mean a bit more familial friction than when dad and I are working alone (it's hard to be the third person at a mostly-two-person job, we'd all been up late the night before, and I work better with either parent than they work together, so nerves were frazzled), but it did give me the opportunity to say "What did you do this weekend? On Saturday, I flashed with my family!" To which mom added "In the driveway!"
(Flashing, for those that don't know, is the water-proofing stuff you put around the window). :P
It's so cool you can have another picture, taken right before I walked to work this morning. This one has sunshine and everything:
It works from the inside, too:
My coworker helped me pick up all the drywall (26 sheets, oh, my aching arms) Wednesday, which was the last thing we were waiting for before the window. Not that drywall and windows usually have anything to do with each other, but because it was far easier to have Nancy back her truck up to the open window hole than it would've been to carry the drywall around the entire house. For awhile I was afraid we'd have to tear open all the drywall pairs so we could move it one sheet at a time, but the home depot guy and I persevered, and got it onto the cart and then onto the truck, and Xed and E were waiting at home to help unload.
Now the drywall gets to sit there for weeks while we try to figure out the electrics, which is what we started in on Sunday. We didn't have a lot of time -- we have three gigs in November, so band rehearsal HAD to happen, and we got a late start -- but we bought a whole bunch of boxes and I decided on an outlet height, so I can start drilling holes in studs and wiring the receptacle circuits. I'm still very confused about LED floods, how many I'll need, what kind of cans, etc, so we can't start wiring for lights just yet, but the idea is to get the studio wiring as complete as possible without actually attaching it to the panel, and then redo the panel.
I have no idea how that's going to work, because my options are "Several days without electricity" or "hire a licensed electrician," neither of which appeal to me.
Installing the window was a pain in the butt, by the way. The four little ones were easy peasy, despite needing to use ladders. With the big one the bendiness of the vinyl comes into play, and trying to get it in square without any torque such that both vents slide easily was a finicky nightmare. We eventually called it good after an hour and a half, despite the vents not being quite as smooth as the identical professionally-installed one in the living room, because we were pretty sure we could keep tweaking it all day without any improvement.
Mom came to help with the giant-window-hoisting part, and she did a bunch of ivy-and-blackberry clean-up, too, so that was cool. It did mean a bit more familial friction than when dad and I are working alone (it's hard to be the third person at a mostly-two-person job, we'd all been up late the night before, and I work better with either parent than they work together, so nerves were frazzled), but it did give me the opportunity to say "What did you do this weekend? On Saturday, I flashed with my family!" To which mom added "In the driveway!"
(Flashing, for those that don't know, is the water-proofing stuff you put around the window). :P
