As October morphed into November we kept plugging along doing whatever was in front of at the time. We shifted tasks depending on mood, weather and availability of material.
Ernie and Nick came by and we worked together and completed all the wiring needed for the rough-in inspection. The special right angle drill made two holes and died. A warranty replacement will be in the mail but not much help that day.
The inspector came by and said he was happy. I had called about two exemptions and he granted both. I didn’t want the septic tank macerator pump on a GFCI breaker, because of the potential for nuisance trips. He allowed that as long as I put in a single outlet, rather than a duplex.
The other exemption I asked for was for the in-floor heating. Code calls for electric heating to be on its own circuit. The in-floor heating was 150 Watts at 120 Volts. All the other heating was 240 Volts. Also, code says things inside the bathroom have to be on a GFCI. The controller for the in-floor heating has its own GFCI. Supplying one GFCI from another is asking to be annoyed. He allowed me to just add the 150 Watts to a lighting circuit .and use the GFCI built in to the controller.
The winter snow arrived. The real cold was going to be right behind it. The hardware store phoned. The window I had ordered last summer had arrived. I ran to town and picked it up, came home, cut a hole in the wall and installed it in the dark while the snow swirled around me. I just cut the siding back around the window. That’s now a job for next summer.
Somewhere in all this activity we installed the bathtub, the bathroom fan, the toilet and the hand basin. We may not have running water but we can carry water and after we use it the waste water disappears down a drain. With the fixtures in place sheet rocking of the bathroom could commence. Before we put the tank in the water shed I used the shed as a workshop and built a bathroom door out of left over tongue and groove spruce that had been used for the ceiling/ second floor.