The couple is already living together, but to my mind, not for that long to be getting married. His dad is pretty unreligious, I don't know about the bride. I suppose groom will tag along to keep her satisfied.
The help I gave with their house was for free. I just consulted, but got them on the right track on getting the wiring updated and straightened out. He had some 'quaint' ideas how he wanted it, but I got him on the right track. Old fuse box was in a bedroom behind a 'decorative' wood panel. He wanted it moved over to adjacent utility room, but it was very tight with furnace and water heater. I suggested a garage location, and went over advantages for that; real easy to get new heavier lead in wire there, proximity to kitchen, above utility room (and other side of that wall) so easy to connect everything there, ease of 240 service to garage for air compressor, power tools, welder. I think that last one was the clincher as he never gave power in garage a thought and he was going to set up a work area there.
By taking fuse box out of prior location, that room is more comfortably an extra bedroom instead of an inconveniently located basement entrance mud/coat room too. I don't know if they did this, but the living room needed new drywall on the ceiling and I suggested leaving old drywall up there, patching it to make it level, then installing track for tracklights, and then drywalling up to the tracks, partially concealing them. (It won't pass code inspection without drywall beneath the tracks) They wanted a 'different' look with recessed can lights, and with the wacky framing in the attic and the existing ducting, working out the geometry for a reasonable pattern for the can lights didn't look feasible.
I got a kick out of the gift registry for the furniture place, accessories and even wall art were copious for a house with many windows and a fantastic forest view that seems to me to negate the need for art. Lawn furniture was a hoot too.
The help I gave with their house was for free. I just consulted, but got them on the right track on getting the wiring updated and straightened out. He had some 'quaint' ideas how he wanted it, but I got him on the right track. Old fuse box was in a bedroom behind a 'decorative' wood panel. He wanted it moved over to adjacent utility room, but it was very tight with furnace and water heater. I suggested a garage location, and went over advantages for that; real easy to get new heavier lead in wire there, proximity to kitchen, above utility room (and other side of that wall) so easy to connect everything there, ease of 240 service to garage for air compressor, power tools, welder. I think that last one was the clincher as he never gave power in garage a thought and he was going to set up a work area there.
By taking fuse box out of prior location, that room is more comfortably an extra bedroom instead of an inconveniently located basement entrance mud/coat room too. I don't know if they did this, but the living room needed new drywall on the ceiling and I suggested leaving old drywall up there, patching it to make it level, then installing track for tracklights, and then drywalling up to the tracks, partially concealing them. (It won't pass code inspection without drywall beneath the tracks) They wanted a 'different' look with recessed can lights, and with the wacky framing in the attic and the existing ducting, working out the geometry for a reasonable pattern for the can lights didn't look feasible.
I got a kick out of the gift registry for the furniture place, accessories and even wall art were copious for a house with many windows and a fantastic forest view that seems to me to negate the need for art. Lawn furniture was a hoot too.
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