5/8/19:
Building Summary: Today I worked on Jacobhouse both in the morning and in the afternoon. For morning activities, I utilized my first thirty minutes to evacuate the remaining wrenling out of the container home. This was followed by my neatening the place up a bit and then by my modifying / fortifying the sink base cabinet*.
Afternoon activities entailed further modification and the fastening down of the sink base cabinet – a process that included rooting down the front and back of the furnishing via woodscrews**. I finished off the day by installing the first cupboard doors, choosing those inconvenient one located above the refrigerator as my first and adjusting them with Padre’s help.
Commentary: Though there were some more ridiculous bird activities this morning, I would say that the most humorous event occurred this afternoon just as I was finishing up for the day, for it was around that time that Padre arrived at Jacobhouse and proceeded to help me adjust the refrigerator cupboard’s doors.
The hinges that JSI Cabinetry provides are very easy to manipulate, but it was my first time doing so. Thus, there was a fair measure of trial and error. Padre got to observe this learning process, and though he understood it was my first time, he couldn’t get over my makeshift screwdriver. What he didn’t know is that I’ve built the entirety of Jacobhouse without a true in-house screwdriver. I’ve either used the Bauer hammerdrill, or in cases of delicacy such as today’s, I used a pair of vice-grips with a Phillips bit clamped in its maw.
Final Note: Tomorrow I will begin by fastening doors to the remainder of the kitchen cupboards. After that, I will install the electrical boxes in the bathroom and begin the process of collecting, measuring, cutting, and hanging plywood from that room’s interior wall frames.
*The fortifications included adding some 2×4 bracing to the cabinet’s underside, and the modifications entailed my jigsawing out both the drainpipe hole and the rear-side gaps for the water stub-ups and junction box into which the tankless water heater is wired.
**This included fastening down a couple 2x4s attached to the bracing I had implemented earlier and putting screws through the cabinet’s kickboard into a couple pieces of 2×4 that I had affixed to the kitchen’s raised floor-surface.
All I can say is I witnessed some ridiculous tool usage this day, like watching a surgeon use a steak knife instead of a scalpel even though the surgery was a success.