Cabin Project ~ Mud & Tape

As you can see we have caught up with the summer time part of the cabin project and now it is winter. Dark and cold winter. After Thanksgiving we were at the property hanging sheet rock, mudding and taping. This is the point in the project where I wished we could just pay a guy to finish for us. But we push forward and persevere.

Brett is hanging the remaining sheet rock in the kitchen ~  in this photo you can see all the dust in the air that looks like it is snowing inside.

 Mudding and taping the loft bedroom.

 Look at all the beautiful snow out the bedroom window.

 There never seems to be a tape measure in arms reach but that is okay I work well with the visual make it just long enough style of working anyway.

 This is not clean and tidy business ~ messy ~ messy ~ messy!

You might be thinking yup that is a corner.  Well I am here to tell you that is not just a corner it is one skippy fine super duper corner!

 Looking down from the loft ~ everything is coated in sheet rock dust.

In this photo you can see the power box and the built in outlet timer. This is the outlet where the vehicle(s) will be plugged in during the winter. With the built in timer you can set the timer for the power to come on at the appropriate time. Most folks have to have their timers outside as their homes do not have built-in timers on the inside of the house. Alaskans have gotten smarter over the years and if you take the time during new construction you hard wire the timer inside the house.  This insures that the timers itself does not freeze and you do not have to go outside to check it before you go to bed each night.

Plugging your vehicle into a timer will insure that it gets one hour of heat for every 10 degrees below zero without having to have it plugged in all night and too long. Our vehicles have what I call umbilical cords; it is their life blood, as in source of heat, in the winter. Each vehicle has a combination of a block heater, an inline circulating pump that keeps the antifreeze warm and moving through the engine block, a battery pad heater, oil pan heater and a transmission pan heater. Without most of these your vehicle will NOT start in the morning at temperatures like -40 Fahrenheit/Celsius.

This concludes the lecture on surviving winter in the interior of Alaska and making it to work on time!

Happy Thursday everyone!