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Sunday, August 9. 2009

Posted by Joshua Kugler in rebuild at 10:21 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Frustration and Exultation

Progress continues to be made, slowly but surely!

More NextStep ministries crews worked on the house since the last update, and more got done! The entire upstairs ceiling is now covered by sheetrock. Only one panel is left to secure into place.

We also had our electrical service entrance replaced by the fine folks at Bright Electric, and the down-stairs subpanel installed. The frustration came from miscommunication and lack of communication. We thought the labor was going to be free. It was, in part, but it appears Bright Electric thought it would only take four to six hours. It ended up taking about 24 hour of labor (had to replace the mast guy wire, feed lines because they were aluminum, and do some other modifications because the first inspection didn't pass). More materials were required than we originally planned as well. In all, it ended up costing $3200. Bright donated part of the cost, we were able to pay part of it, and NextStep minitries covered the rest. So, it was all taken care of, but the money did come out of our sheetrock budget.

In all, Praise the Lord! We've made some great progress. We can start finish work on the inside electrical now!

Defined tags for this entry: electrical, rebuild, wiring

Monday, August 3. 2009

Posted by Crystal Kugler at 09:15 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Alaskan Ingenuity

One of my "guilty pleasures" is dumpster diving. A lot of people up here do it, and there are all sorts of treasures to be found. Most of the time we don't get anything, but it is amazing what people throw away/give away.

On a recent "expedition" I spotted some Alaskan ingenuity at it's best. And no, we didn't get this.