The electrician came out on Tuesday and our inspector came out Wednesday to sign off for the final inspection! We are fully legal to live at M.T. Acres!
Of course that required me to apply for a “Certificate of Occupancy” from the county, which our gal Debbie Lee sent out post haste.
I am not sure what “CONSPICUOS” means since it is not a real word in the English language, but I assume it means they want to be able to access this document somehow. So I figure I will happily allow them access to it (if they have the proper warrants, correctly spelled, prescribed by the 4th Amendment) via a prostate exam.
Regardless, we are now officially residents of the Sulphur Springs Valley and we could not be happier!
On the build, we got the heavy-duty 200 pound drawer bodies assembled. I started by cutting the drawer bottoms from 1/2 oak plywood, then covered the top with laminate. The laminate was a serious pain in the neck to work with mainly due to having to glue it down with contact cement.
Then I trim the overhang off with a router using a flush-trim router bit.
Next was to glue up the drawer bodies.
The corner joinery generally looks horrible until after they are sanded and finished.
Technically, 4 of the drawers are not drawers at all. They are actually pull-out shelves for the center island in the kitchen. I was able to get them drilled and fitted to the drawer glides before Tina started the finishing.
And Tina started the finishing.
Lastly, it seems every February we get a few days where it is cool, wet and crappy.
In our case, this could not have come at a worse time. When I cut all of the joinery for the drawers the weather was warm and (more importantly) dry. When the rain and humidity came, the wood swelled up and twisted some of the drawer parts and made some of the joinery almost impossible to fit together.
I am really having to fight them to straighten out this bloody noodle wood after it twists and worse, having to use a dead blow mallet to even get the corner joints to fit. It got so bad on Sunday that I brought the drawer parts into the house and put them in the guest bedroom with the fan on just to dry them out enough to fit them together.
The rain also introduced a few other problems.
We are getting sinkholes all over the place! This particular one is not even in an area they would have dug for the house. We have 3 more that are over spots that were dug for the house. Thankfully, Tina made the builder leave about 5 yards of dirt he was going to haul away, so at least I have dirt to fill them in.
The plan for the coming week is to get the rest of the drawers including adding the drawer faces and maybe move a couple loads of stuff from the rental house.