The Quarky Engineer

Things are arriving for installation in the house.. Details in the description for each picture.

Switches and optics.. good stuff brewing!

I have a lot of terminations to do at the new house. I would guess over 1000. On the panel side I’m going to use keystones in place of the standard panels.

One advantage is I can use metal shielded ones for the Cat6A shielded wire, and the regular Cat6 ones for the Cat6/Cat6A unshielded. It also makes the cable management a bit easier as I can move things around.

Today was part one of three driveway asphalt installations. Total sq ft is around 28,000, but today was the smallest of the three sections. They used about 7 trucks worth, so around 140 tons of asphalt. In total there should be about 525 tons of asphalt (~ 1 million pounds), and about the same amount of rock.

It was a cool day (50F), but that is workable.

Today was part one of three driveway asphalt installations. Total sq ft is around 28,000, but today was the smallest of the three sections. They used about 7 trucks worth, so around 140 tons of asphalt. In total there should be about 525 tons of asphalt (~ 1 million pounds), and about the same amount of rock.

It was a cool day (50F), but that is workable.

A bunch of 3D pictures of the current house progress. I’m thinking this would be a cool camera to have permanently installed in a few locations outside and streaming to my central recording archive.. it sort of makes the ultimate security camera.

I did a walk through of the house in 3D. I need to remember to keep the front of the camera in the primary direction. It is kind of cool that you can look around while I am walking, and also while the video is paused. I didn’t do any narration as there were lots of people working, and music.

(It appears you have to open this in the Youtube app if you are mobile, instead of using the embedded youtube app inside the facebook app).

Taping away! That is a lot of drywall.

A foggy day here in Portland….

Exterior paint is perhaps 90% done, and interior drywall installation is about the same. The drywall guys are fast! >10,000 sq ft done in about 1.5 weeks, perhaps 8 guys. Next up is of course taping and mudding, then window/door trims, then probably the wood ceilings.

I think February is looking possible. Woot!