June 18th

The framers finished their work today! The place looks like a house!! I have been able to run electrical wire to about half of the house. The wire nuts still need to be installed but the wires are all labeled and so making the connections should go smoothly. More work was done on the septic system and Mike Mark is going to be making the requested corrections to the fire sprinkler plans and then resubmitting them. Hopefully it will all be approved next week and he can get working on the fire sprinklers as well.

We had the inspector out on Monday but the house was not ready and the inspector seemed annoyed that we called him out. I was under the impression that we could have a sheer panel inspection done before the framing but he wanted in all finished before he came back out. I asked about the electrical and he said that we needed to have someone help us because he doesn't check every single thing and that a licensed electrician should be making sure that the circuits are not overloaded and that the design is satisfactory. He also made it clear that we needed to check with out Title 24 engineer to insure that the changes we made to the windows were all still up to the standards. He also said that any changes we made need to be approved by the county.

The whole conversation was deflating but after thinking through it for a couple of days it is also giving us some freedom to go ahead and do things ourselves. The inspector repeatedly said that it is perfectly fine for us to do it ourselves but that we need to make sure we are doing it correctly. It became clear that if it looks like we are competent then he won't have to look too closely and we can stop sweating the small stuff. Very excited about the progress!