They made more progress on the solar panel supports yesterday:
The threaded rods we see in this picture
straddle the rafters supporting the roof. They’re secured to steel plates at the bottom of the rafters.
That’s fairly straightforward inside the attic, but because of the tongue-and-groove it was harder to drill neat holes under the overhangs. Once they painted the metal plates there, they weren’t quite so noticeable.
Hopefully the guys will be back next week to finish this part of the project and to start putting in the cross pieces. As usual, we’ll just have to see.
Work, work, work, details, details. That’s what life is all about & what would we do without it. 😀
It helps a lot if it’s interesting!
I am glad that the design issues of the solar panels seems to have been fixed.
About mice in the egnines. I don’t remember that in Montana, but we frequently
get mice coming up into the engine compartment and the air conditioning systems
in the winter. At first I was “from Missouri”, the show-me state – mice in the
engine block components, absurd. But apparently they sneak in in the cold
weather, attracted by the warm engine temperature on cold nights in the
garage when I come back from my night class at 10 p.m., and the air-duct openings apparently make perfect places to enter. I’ve asked the Toyota folks if we
could put mesh over them, but the answers suggest that the mechanics don’t want
to do it, it is up to me. So when I start smelling something foul, I know that
it is a mouse that has died, and I have to hit the shop again.
Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of the supports. A machine shop is building the frames for the panels, and (1) we don’t know when they will be finished, (2) we’re not certain they will even work. This is uncharted territory so we won’t be surprised if there are problems.
That’s too bad about the mice. Could you trap them in the garage?
clearly rebuilding a small home, and being able to build a kind of dream palace in a rural area with few urban facilities is interesting…and of course it is keeping Andy occupied 🙂
Yes, it’s putting ourselves into projects that gives us the satisfaction. We could have used the insurance money to buy something already finished, but how meaningful would that have been?