Final check has been paid - the garage is ours! Spent the last week and a half planning, getting the electrical permits, and starting the wiring. I decided to bring in an electrician to work with me on the main subpanel feed to the garage, but that may turn out to be more headache than it was worth. Had my mom visiting this last week and we have been working on getting most of the branch circuits wired in - up to where the panel should soon be installed (if I can get the electrician to show back up with my panel!). Should be just a couple more nights to get the electrical rough-in done. I think we probably went overkill with lights, switches, and outlets, but I'd rather do too many rather than too few!
I did hit an unfortunate snag, however. Evidently the county has been seeing lots of folks self-finish "unfinished storage" spaces, so they will not allow me to wire my upstairs space with anything but a single outlet and 2 ceiling lights. My intent was to use this partly as an extended workshop space, and in retrospect, I should have had that space labeled as workshop space on my original building permit, as I may need to pull a new full building permit to re-classify that space. For now, I'm just going with it until we know if/when we will do a full finish-out of the space. Of course, this is all after the building inspector made us do a full "proper", finished stairway. C'est la vie.
My father-in-law came over this weekend and finished up most of the trim painting. I've just got a small area between the roof lines left to do and that part will be done too. I think I'll wait 'till cooler weather, though!
Pictures!!!! Pictures dammit!
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