Andy did indeed drill the hole in the right spot. He made it big enough for the condensate tubing plus two electrical cables.
So now any liquid condensing in the exhaust duct for the refrigerator will drip into the funnel and flow down the tubing to the drain in the crawl space.
The electrical cables will connect the electronics Andy is designing/building from its place in a kitchen cabinet to its power supply in the crawl space.
Andy has also attached a thermometer probe to the cooling fins of the refrigerator so he can compare their temperature to the room temperature of the kitchen. If the difference between the temperatures is large enough, he knows the refrigerator is working.
That means he could replace the wood panel that hides the sides and back of the refrigerator, so the kitchen looks neat again.
Yay, Andy!
December 13, 2014
Yay indeed. That picture looks like something that you have copy pasted from Home and Gardens!
Yes, our architect did steer us to a great kitchen designer. The kitchen is top-of-the-line and it makes the house.
i like the wood panels on both sides of the fridge! it’s all still very neat and attractive.
if i were to ever build another house . . . i would want andy to be in charge!!!
you lucky monk!!!
XO
Andy is great for the construction, but the first thing he would do is to tell you to get together with the architect and design a house you like. And the architect doesn’t like to talk about details, like where the windows should go, etc. We’re not sorry we went with him because he did steer us to a great kitchen designer, but except for the foundation he never drew up detailed plans to work with.
Kaitlin and Torben were invaluable, especially because they had just remodeled. Torben drew up the floor plan using Power Point, and they helped us decide on the size and placement of the windows when they came for Thanksgiving in 2011. The architect had told us what brand of windows to buy, and which company to buy them from, so we could get all of our options from the internet, we just had to decide which ones to get and exactly where to place them.
Here are pictures of Kaitlin, Torben and Andy looking at the options:
And here are pictures of us at the house site, looking at the tentative plans and measuring to see how they would work:
Andy and I are amazed the house turned out as well as it did, and we agree. If it gets destroyed, we’re not rebuilding. The gods would have spoken!
i love these pictures!
i had to laugh. . . kaitlin resting her face in her hands is how i look when math is involved! LOL. but knowing what i know about her expertise . . . that’s not the case.
you feel the same way i think about people in moore . . .
who keep re-building their homes when moore literally blows away every few years.
or . . . the mud slide people. after while i’m thinking . . . “is there a message here?”
LOLOL.
I laughed out loud when I saw the picture of Kaitlin with her head in her hands. I don’t know why she was doing it, but it sure represented my feelings at times when we were designing and building the house. There were just so many decisions to make, and most of them required some research and thinking. Andy and I have never been that interested in houses — my guess is a lot of the decisions would have been easier for people who had looked at a lot of houses. Anyway, we’re very pleased with how we handled it and how it turned out.
I could imagine Kaitlin muttering under her breath “come on guys, you are not thinking straight with this”….
Sometimes guys have to be closed down, as they get so wound up over some minor detail which women can see if not the whole picture 🙂 – sorry guys!
oh sorry, the post was about Andy’s “hole expedition” so glad you got it right Andy…
I love your interpretation of Kaitlin’s picture! I would never have thought of it, but it made me smile.