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House stuff
Dec. 18th, 2022 07:14 pmI spent today getting evil Narnia sealed up. It required extending the thermostat cord because it angled through the opening I wanted to close up, re-doing an electrical outlet and section and putting planking up.
Took me most of the day to do it, with trips to the basement to cut and get supplies.
The thermostat wire, I just put a little junction box in the closet wall and pulled the wire out of the thermostat and put that end into the junction box, then ran more up to the thermostat. It was very easy and worked just fine afterwards.
Then I had to put in a frame thing to hold the planking, both across the closet and the stairs. Then I took a break from that to do the electrical, which I moved from under the stairs to on the wall. I put a junction box where it had been under the stairs because of course the outlet was in series with other things.
Then the planking went in. Took longer than it should have simply because I ran down to the basement to make all the cuts and because nothing is square, including the stuff I had done to the stairs back in the summer, I had to make extra cuts to the planking.
It's all done though! Not great but it is done. Because F is getting the cats tomorrow apparently.
Then I was relaxing just now and F is out to dinner with her family and I thought it was getting cold in here. Went down to the basement and turns out, we ran out of propane. That's my fault, I didn't check the tanks to see how much we had and call for a delivery. So I just gave the propane company a call on their after hours service line and I'm waiting on a call back from their on-call person. I asked my dad's advice and he said we probably wouldn't have frozen pipes overnight so as long as we can get a delivery tomorrow, we should be fine.
I feel like a bit of a dumbass though. I'll be switching to auto deliveries after this.
Eta: talked to on call guy and he said they'd be out tomorrow to deliver and they'd check the lines to make sure there isn't air in them. Hunkering down tonight but it's only going to be 18 so we should be in the clear. I'll probably get up and check basement temps overnight since that's the only worry area on the one wall that faces the road aboveground. I've got a tiny space heater that will help if the temps get too low.
Morning ETA: only got to 49 in the basement and it's currently 55 on the first floor right now. It was only 29 overnight so that definitely helped
Final ETA: we got our propane delivery and the house is warming back up!
Took me most of the day to do it, with trips to the basement to cut and get supplies.
The thermostat wire, I just put a little junction box in the closet wall and pulled the wire out of the thermostat and put that end into the junction box, then ran more up to the thermostat. It was very easy and worked just fine afterwards.
Then I had to put in a frame thing to hold the planking, both across the closet and the stairs. Then I took a break from that to do the electrical, which I moved from under the stairs to on the wall. I put a junction box where it had been under the stairs because of course the outlet was in series with other things.
Then the planking went in. Took longer than it should have simply because I ran down to the basement to make all the cuts and because nothing is square, including the stuff I had done to the stairs back in the summer, I had to make extra cuts to the planking.
It's all done though! Not great but it is done. Because F is getting the cats tomorrow apparently.
Then I was relaxing just now and F is out to dinner with her family and I thought it was getting cold in here. Went down to the basement and turns out, we ran out of propane. That's my fault, I didn't check the tanks to see how much we had and call for a delivery. So I just gave the propane company a call on their after hours service line and I'm waiting on a call back from their on-call person. I asked my dad's advice and he said we probably wouldn't have frozen pipes overnight so as long as we can get a delivery tomorrow, we should be fine.
I feel like a bit of a dumbass though. I'll be switching to auto deliveries after this.
Eta: talked to on call guy and he said they'd be out tomorrow to deliver and they'd check the lines to make sure there isn't air in them. Hunkering down tonight but it's only going to be 18 so we should be in the clear. I'll probably get up and check basement temps overnight since that's the only worry area on the one wall that faces the road aboveground. I've got a tiny space heater that will help if the temps get too low.
Morning ETA: only got to 49 in the basement and it's currently 55 on the first floor right now. It was only 29 overnight so that definitely helped
Final ETA: we got our propane delivery and the house is warming back up!
