New old subpanel

A couple of weekends ago I finished re-running all the house connections to the main breaker on the main floor. Which then allowed me to run the new wire for the 100amp sub panel in the basement. It is the same old panel, but I moved it to the " furnace room" ( what I call the operations room). I had to run a 3AWG wire which is a bitch. I drilled 1 1/4" holes through the joists with the occasional 1 1/2" It took 2 of use the push/pull the wire through.
Drilled onto 1/2" plywood.

All the new basement connections will be made here. Allot of power will be going to the studio room. With full lighting and effects the basement could be drawing up to 80 amps. Weight: ...maybe 70lbs

Main breaker. Most difficult hook-up ever. the wire simply does not bend. I tried to have a little bit of a loop within the box. nearly inpossible.

More grass.......holly crap

We are finished with the landscaping, some irrigation systems and gardening still needs to get done, but all the concrete has been poured, all the walls are up, as well as a bunch of random posts.

As for the exterior lighting, we have gone with a lot of small garden lights from homedepot, and Kichler. The Kichler ones of course being more expensive. Kichler is one that we bought the 300W transformer from through a local irrigation and landscaping store.

Before I go anyfurther her is a photo of what the landscape was going to look like,,,, it is very similar to what turned out. Just replace the new extension in the back yard with grass.
Many many years ago, we ran teck wire from the panel to behind the hot tub as well as a couple other locations. It wasn't necessary for us to use tech wire, we could of simply run lumex wire shielded within a pvc pipe. But what is done is done. Since we have fed wire to behind the hot tub, I have installed a receptacle and switch ( for a post light) to power some garden lights in that area that can be switched on from inside. This is separate from the rest of the lighting that is being fed from the main 300 W transformer in the front which will be on a timer.

WE HAVE GRASS!

I came home over the weekend to find some green plant like growth on the forlawn. Something I had not seen since the day we dug our house out of the ground, and the diesel super machines clear cut the landscape. It was in fact grass, being watered by the newly installed irrigation system ( thanks to marco). The front lawn has freshly planted seed on it. And the backyard will soon be planted. The irrigation system is has 6 valves with a controler that is installed on the side of the house; or at least, I tried to instal it over the weekend.
All the rockwall is completely DONE.
And soon they will finish the driveway.



I almost installed the irrigation timer and an exterior GFIC plug to power some of the landscape lighting. I had almost finished when the head of one of the screws broke off..... so i was unable to secure the plug.

And me and Marco do some tilling. Under the carfull eye of Mr. Rohon..... which leads to many delays. O and the towel heater just came in .... it's a beast.

July 5th update!

I'll start by saying that bathroom progress has come to a standstill. Right now it's painted, and my dad started to do the tile work around the tub and shower unit. But that was a couple weeks ago. But I guess on a positive note, my brothers have gotten used to not having a shower in the house.
A lot of progress has been made outside in the last couple weeks. The rockwall is basically complete, with all the concrete caps finished. They still need to pour the platform around the hot tub, and pour dirt in certain areas and such. They where waiting on the irrigation system to be installed, which thanks to Marco, I believe is on its way. The West side ( as seen above ) of the house was once again ..... i believe for the 3rd time...... was dug up and the foundation was patched and sealed. This TIME PRoperly !!!!

Bathtub adventures.

So this video displays a very accurate representation of every day work at the Rohon house.
Listen Very carefully!



So as you noticed the tub was initial filled up in the bedroom before moving into the bathroom. Once the Tub made it in, it took quite some time to get it installed.
Also the electrical is all done.... except maybe that dimmer switch..... the ceiling is drywalled, and we have a new carpenter, who is actually are old carpenter, Tom ,,,, old Tom vs. young Tom who was are new carpenter but is now are old carpenter.

Rockwall almost done.

Well well well , it looks as though we are finally going to finish something. The rock wall is just about done. I got news today that they have also pored the front walkway; but of course, with a few complications. I sounds as though it took 3 cement trucks to get the job done since the first one didn't have enough, and the second one, they messed up the mix.


We will finally be able to use that hot tub.

Epic week off.

It was indeed an epic week. I was able to get a lot done .... although we never finished all the bathroom related wiring, i did basically redo a lot of it and finished all the plugs and switches. And passed the rough-in electrical inspection.
The picture below of is of me in the crawl space trying to feed the fishing tape into the ceiling of the upstairs foyer: we had to feed wires for the smoke alarm, and two lights.
It was very hot and humid in the crawl space.... and dark ...... but there's some interesting stuff in there.


Downstairs bedroom, and all the upstairs bedrooms I worked on this weekend. Redid all the switches and lights( had to put new retrofit boxes in for the most part) I left the house with no power in the upstairs..... except the bathroom. I don't know if that is still the case.A list of all the electrical that still needs to be redone:
-Dining room lights
-Kitchen lights
-Ceiling fan
-Galen/Juan-Luke bedroom light ( that one is going to suck)
-Stove and dishwasher
-Hotwater heater and Furnace
-A couple plugs upstairs and a couple connections for outside lights ( more crawl space!!!!)

Then I can start on the basement.