6/21/19
Building Summary: Today I began by turning off the electric at the outdoor pole and then by feeding fish tape from the panel box inside of Jacobhouse to the meter box.* This was followed by my hooking the portable A/C up to the front window and then by my adding drawer slides to the pull-out closet.
(8:00 PM Update – written from my phone:) It has been a long and busy day, so I must keep this summary somewhat brief (will likely include more tomorrow). Alan and Terry Hendrickson dropped by today and left the fourth cable. Padre and I managed to pull this cable through the conduit with much much difficulty. It was probably the hardest pull I have ever done, and Padre compared pushing his end to delivering a backwards calf. Terry couldn’t believe we did it. He had seen where we were to pull it through, and had gone and bought extra PVC parts because he thought we were going to have to cut it all apart. Fortunately that was not the case.
Also, I learned how to wire 20 amp electrical breakers today.
Commentary: It was an interesting morning at Jacobhouse today. The word ‘interesting’ may seem somewhat played out, but here I mean it in full**. As to the why behind that interest, I would say it is probably because the majority of my morning was spent upon tasks that I have never performed before. The first – feeding fish tape through rather ‘curvy’ conduit – may have been a trying affair (especially when it got to the last and fourth bend), but I had to admit to myself that the fish-tape was an exceptional invention for the task it had to perform.
Then, when it came to the drawer slide installation, I soon discovered it to be a meticulous process of ensuring that the slides were level both from front to back and side to side. They also had to be evenly spaced across from each other to glide smoothly. It was the latter bit where I ran into some trouble today, for after I had the slides in place, the closet did not want to slip all the way into its housing. The problem ended up being the central postern support board which was bowing out the back side of the frame ever so slightly. After I took that brace out, though***, the entire slide-out closet glided smoothly into place, and I was able to witness and know for the first time that my closet-wall idea was going to work.
Final Note: Tomorrow I plan on fastening the drawer slides to the upper portion of the slide-out closet. Also, if Alan drops off the fourth cable, I will pull it all the way through with the fish tape I threaded through today.
* Just two days ago, Alan told us that he had only provided three of the four wires that were supposed to go through the conduit. Unfortunately, the conduit was already all glued and in place, so I decided that I would either have to fish the fourth cable through or I would have to purchase a secondary smaller conduit through which I could thread that single cable. This morning’s events have revealed to me that I will very likely be able to use the former solution.
** As per Google’s dictionary: arousing curiosity or interest; holding or catching the attention
*** Padre was the one to help me realize this as the proper course of action.