We have guests staying with us for Thanksgiving. They are low-key, flexible, tolerant guests, but they are still guests, and dear guests at that. The plan was to have drywall up for Thanksgiving so that all eight of us could eat dinner in the rat hole and be relatively warm, if not comfortable.
In order to acheive this, we needed to get our fireplace on Friday so we could finish framing it, get our framing and mechanical inspection on Tuesday, insulate and have our insulation inspection and our second electrical inspection on Friday or Monday.
Too bad our fireplace didn't come on Friday.
They said the trucking company was delayed in Oregon, and they wouldn't be delivering the fireplace until Tuesday. Okay, fine. I have a flexible work schedule, so I shuffled things around with work, as well as with a friend who we'll be dog-sitting for while she has surgery. (We're taking care of the delightful little sheltie we've dog-sat in the past.) I had called the fireplace shop twice yesterday and never got a call back, but my husband and I were hopeful that it would come in and we could spend all Tuesday night framing, no matter how late we had to stay up, and then request on Wednesday a framing inspection for Thursday.
Too bad the fireplace shop called me this morning and told us that the truck with our fireplace probably wouldn't get it until Weds. morning, if we were lucky. Fabulous. Our insulation is also supposed to come Weds. morning. And I have to leave at 4pm for an appointment. I don't much want to drive around with the fireplace in the back of my truck, and so a friend is going to come help move it into the house. Bless you, Kbot. Anyway, that's if I can get the fireplace at the right time. If that time works out with the delivery of the insulation. If, if, if.
And then there's the matter of getting the inspections we need, and getting the house passably warm for Thanksgiving. Nope, we're not freaking out, not at all.
Mrs Kbot says that the kitchen here is always available. It worked last year! Keep the faith, yo!
ReplyDeleteCan you tack drywall w/o insulation and pull it off for inspection? All the sheets would be cut so insulating and sticking them back up wouldn't be a big time loss. Go right over the fireplace and worry about framing it later, except for the whole cold part. Four screws in the corners and one in the center field will hold in on the wall, three in the field, every other rafter will sick it to the ceiling. I wouldn't want to put up and take down the ceiling... bed sheets?
ReplyDeleteKen