Awake: 5:03am Temp 49 Sleep 6+48 partly sunny Overnight@ Nicktown
Report for work @ the Foote house @ 7:59am. However, this morning Kevin &
Matthew are not here! They went shopping for tools & supplies…..so our
start time was delayed by 35 min.
Today was tough: I convince Kevin to: finish the skinny knee wall area not
fit for human or beast & be done with it while the weather is cool. He
agrees & we begin prepping that loose 6 ft plenum by fastening the end cap
with screws, taping down the insulation & then the aluminum foil outer
blanket. Next the plenum gets (4) 2” holes cut 18 inches apart. A sticky
rubber donut is added & then a plastic connector locked into place. Later
this plenum will be laid into the skinny knee wall on the street side &
those (4) 3” tubes that we ran last week will be connected to these plenum
connectors. Kevin’s 2” hole saw was so dull that he had to make a quick
run to Lowe’s & buy another.
During Kevin’s shopping time, I began getting the 220 volt wire run more
accessible for connecting to the air handler in the wider, slightly
friendlier knee wall area.
With the plenum in position, screwed down, wrapped with tape etc, there is
very little space for human or beast to wander & I flatly refuse to even
try. Kevin slithers & inches his way back along that knee wall….only his
big feet are visible. With a backward hand shoved along his body, his
muffled voice calls for individual tools & supplies so he can make the
connections of those 4 tubes to their respective connectors on the plenum.
I was his gopher going in & out of that slightly bigger knee wall area to
hand him the appropriate tool @ the proper time. He was horizontal for
over an hr, grunting, groaning but never complaining. He did good & he was
not perspiring.
After he inched & slithered his way back out, we were so happy it was
over; we went downstairs & took a breather for 10 min.
The remainder of our time was spent drilling (2) more holes in the
adjoining plenum that leads back to the air handler & connected (2) more
takeoff tubes. 8 hrs work time today.
Back to our bus, shower then 7:30 dinner: Tuna steaks, cauliflower in
cheese sauce, brown rice, spinach salad & toast.
Evening movie: “Guarding Tess” with Shirley McLaine & Nicolas Cage. A
great…. make you feel good film.
High temp=? Lights out: 10:23pm
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