On the last day of Christmas break

We'd hoped to finish the siding in the entryway.  It's not quite done, but excellent progress.  All done left of the beam.  And up to nearly the top of the door.

And there was light...

On the 3rd day of Christmas

Ian blogged last night, and maybe there is one more board.  Moving forward!

Progress and Picky Inspectors

 We made more progress today on the front siding, but woke up to evidence of inspection of our work that is definitly critical of what we are doing. The inspectors do not understand why we care about external siding on the house and are not completly onboard with the time we are spending on it.

Picky Inspector

We installed 6 more levels of siding (only 5 pictured). We continue to get compliments on the door and the progress from neighbors walking by. It has been a while since we have had positive feedback and it is really nice to have people being postive. We are really excited about how the entry is coming together. The boards are cut up to the top of the window and should get installed tomorrow. One bite at a time.

More Progress

On the second day of Christmas...

We're getting our system down.  Twice as much progress as yesterday, and even more prepped.

On the first day of Christmas

Ok, I know that the 12 days of Christmas are actually the time between Christmas and epifany, when the Wise Men arrived.  But, we're taking the week off work so yesterday was the first day of our Christmas break.  We started finishing the siding in our entryway.  It's been slow starting off as we figure out our process and learn how to keep from having bubbles in the touch up paint.  But the first course is in.

Interconnection Request

 We received confirmation that Tesla filed our interconnection request. We are really looking forward to being able to turn on on new system. Solar and storage should make a fundamental difference in our dependence on the grid, and hopefully, on an annual basis, we will generate more electricity than we use.

Wrapping up doors and air sealing

We spent the weekend finishing up the front door install and making the door to the garage work a bit better. We also got air sealing so the warm should stay inside a bit more.

Surge protection

I took a few minutes over lunch and got the panel surge protector into our garage panel. A nice fringe benefit is that you know the panel is live if the lights are glowing. The lights turn off if the surge protector is overloaded so it is not enough evidence to safely open the panel. You still need to verify another way that the power is cut to the panel.

Ready for tomorrow's inspection

We installed trim around the power walls tonight and hope that all goes well with the inspections tomorrow to move a step closer to being able to use the solar and storage. It is hard to resist just turning everything on and creating more renewable electricity.