Consuming my life

I just thought I would give a quick update and explain the work currently involved with the project.

On Monday Sept. 15th it was our 25th wedding anniversary. It was also the anniversary luncheon for Nuskin. So for our anniversary we just had a nice lunch provided by work. For me it was my 25th year at Nuskin and for Lara it celebrated her 10 year.

That afternoon we received information that the insulation crew would be there on Wednesday. This meant that everything in all of the walls had to be completed before then.

I left work at 15:30. I have been going in early this last few weeks to support the implementation of the new order fulfillment system.

I got home and changed and was working by 16:00. there were just a bunch of detail things that still needed to be completed before the insulation. I worked on those things and the gas line. Todd and I had installed it a week or so ago. For some reason It just had a lot of leaks. The way we had to rout it meant that there were many direction changes and thus connections. The line is 1 1/2 inch from the meter. This continues through the mechanical room where it finally necks to 1 inch and then goes to 3/4 for the shop line and finally a 1/2 inch line to the kitchen range. So a quick count of connections.
Elbows = 9 - 1 1/2", 2 - 1", 5 - 1/2"
T = 4
Unions = 2 - 1 1/2", 1 - 1", 1 - 3/4", 1 - 1/2"
Reducers - 3

Here are a few example photos.

This is Todd working in the West end of the hole

 This line has to serve 2 furnaces and 2 water heaters in the mechanical room. It also serves the gas dryer then the line to the shop furnace and a gas range in the kitchen.

 This is where the line exist the mechanical room.

I struggled and struggled with this thing. I disassembled and re-assembled sections of the line 4 to 6 times. It wasn't until Friday evening the 19th that I finally sealed everything and got the gas line to hold 15# for over 72 hours.

So my "house" work time for that week was the following.
Monday  -16:00 to 04:00 = 12 hours
Tuesday - 06:30 to 04:00 = 22 hours
Wednesday - 06:00 to 23:00 = 17 hours
Thursday - 16:00 to 01:00 = 8 hours
Friday - 16:00 to 23:00 = 7 hours
Saturday - 07:00 to 01:00 = 18 hours

That is 84 hours of "house" work time in 1 week. This is besides my real work on Monday, Thursday, and Friday, and a little time to sleep.

Note: the insulation crew did not show up on Wednesday. They finally got there on Friday. This meant another delay. The inspection was pushed off until Monday and the sheet rock that was supposed to start on Tuesday now wont start until Thursday. Grrrrrrrr.