The T&G and sheetrock on this wall is completed. I also had some final electrical work done; a few more wall receptacles in the garage, and a couple of floor receptacles in the new room. I'm glad we could leave the walls open while we lived with the new construction and figured out what we want. Now, I'm ready to insulate the other walls in the new room and have them sheetrocked.
The new garage receptacles. One on the support post using conduit, and another over the beam that will be used for a fan I intend to mount directly below it. The fan should help move the heat that collects in the upper bay back down where it's needed in the lower bay.
I'm still waiting for my shoulder to heal up enough that I can do some real work here. Right now I can only work on things that don't require raising my right arm much, or lifting much weight. In the meantime, there are a few details I can work on. The hole in the siding from the mini-split's first location needed to be patched, so I removed part of the sheetrock on the inside to expose the backside of the siding. I saved scraps of the siding materials, and was able to make a patch to fill the hole. The outside surface is mostly covered by the mini-split line set cover, so most likely nobody but me will ever know the hole was there.
Inside view after the patch is installed.
We were originally planning on having a closet in this corner, but the boss has decided she likes the windows. That's actually easier for me, because removing the windows was going to require some wall refinishing on the other side. I needed to get the plumbing and wires tucked into the corner a little tighter, though. The pipe is a gas line for the garage heater, and the wires are all Cat-6 Ethernet. The new window and corner trim can cover all that now that it's pulled back tight. I'm going to find a piece of sheet metal angle to protect them from nails before putting the trim up.
It took me all day to do those two things!
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