7/11/19:
(Above: Galvalume now completely surrounds the interior and exterior of the bathroom door. To add to this, Light #6 has been installed.)
Building Summary: Today I worked on Jacobhouse in three different segments: once in the morning, once right after lunch, and once in the late afternoon after farm activities. For the first segment, I measured / marked / cut the piece of galvalume that extends above and around the east side of the bathroom doorway (interior side). This bit of activity was followed by a trip to town for groceries and a stop by Rural King where I searched for more aluminum trim and rivets.
The second portion of Jacobhouse activity occurred after a lunch of sushi and salad. It was during this time that I made additional adjustments to the sheet I had cut in the morning. These included making the notches a tad larger and cutting an additional notch because the light was to be positioned a tad more westward than I originally thought. After the adjustments had been made, I fastened the piece in place via rivets.
The third and final bit of work I performed after farm-time consisted of trimming out the notches until they were all even with one another, beating back the top notches with a hammer, installing the LED strip light’s mounting bracket via short broadheaded self-tapping screws, and then wiring that LED strip light* before snapping it to the aforementioned bracket.
Commentary: Despite a somewhat full schedule further filled by a trip to Ocala and meeting an unforeseen (and quite welcome) Master Blend customer, I was able to accomplish quite the feat at Jacobhouse today. Not only did I install another piece of galvalume**, I was able to wire in and mount the bathroom’s LED strip light. The significance of this latter event did not strike me until just before I departed Jacobhouse for the day, for it was as I walked through the house, noting all the lights – the office LED, the bedroom dimmer, the hall LED, and the kitchen LED strip – that I realized I had just wired in the final illumination-related fixture. The only loose end – both figuratively and literally – in regard to the wiring situation is the smoke-detector, for it is the only fixture that has yet to be wired within Jacobhouse.
Progress has been made.
A salad I had for lunch garnished with a delicious combination of feta and 4-day-old homemade refrigerator pickles.
Final Note: There shall be more panel-work tomorrow, but I have finally reached the point where the end is in sight! All that is needed is 1 and ½ more pieces for the bathroom wall’s interior, and less than 1 and ½ pieces for the bedroom’s west wall.
*It was the easiest light to wire thus far. Instead of having me use wire-nuts and electrical tape, it possessed convenient adapters where I simply needed to shove the hot / neutral / ground cables into clips of corresponding colors. (I attempted pulling the wires out afterward to test how well the clips held up, and I could not free them. Impressive.)
**Which is becoming easier, by the way.