First building to make it to the new site...
You can see my RV way off in the distance there to the left of that water truck. Shows you how big this property is. I wasn’t working in that building in the foreground but at the house in the woods behind where I took this shot. It’s was around Aug. 19th or so and they were gutting out the house for remodeling. They already had some of the new ceiling sheet rock installed before they bothered to ask me to help with the wiring. I wandered over to check it out and had them stop the installation so I could get to the wiring. Kind of disorganized. They originally planned on building on an extension to the house then after I got started on the electrical job changed their minds (too much money). But by that time I’d gotten to far along with the wiring and the panel was dropped down into the basement and mounted to a frame built onto the basement stairs. The stairs were suppose to go away in the original plan.
Looking up into the attic.
There’s some of the new wiring heading up to the attic. It had been a grow room for pot but we were remodeling it for a living space. Put up new walls, all new wiring in the new space etc. I took my time since I wasn’t getting any pay for the job, just a living spot for my RV with electric and some food. No water, sewer, or WiFi though.
Looking down into the basement.
In the above shot you can see where I’d moved the electrical panel. It had been sitting directly above on the first floor. Near the floor. Definitely not code, but here outside of the city limits of Fairbanks, there is no inspection. Anyway, had to figure out the wiring and then tried to do most of it live so the other workers would have power for their work. Had to move a couple of 3-way light switches that use to be on a wall to the right of that opening. Not that bad of a job but I’m out of practice so I’d have to really think about how to do things so it would be usable and safe. That basement wall behind where I put the panel was suppose to have an opening cut into it from the new extension…which won’t happen until next year.
Living room looking towards the bathroom.
Originally, that blue bathroom door faced into the kitchen toward the left. Not cool. Then there was a wall that was ripped out and there was also a ladder next to the wall that allowed access to the upstairs. The plan was to seal off both the upstairs access and basement access since there was to be an extension to the house but since that’s put on hold until next year, the people living here will have a bit of trouble. They did get a nice collapsing staircase for the attic but they will still have to pick up a piece of flooring to get to the circuit breaker box in the basement. Where the water softener and water heater is. And that ceiling is being held up with air. Should have a support but it shouldn’t move to much in one year.
Little house in the woods.
Here’s a shot of the house. The wire drooping down in front had a tree dropped on it so it pulled both power poles over about a foot each. The stairs were rebuilt 3 times as the owner kept changing her mind. Didn’t like the look of them the other two times I suppose.
Off into the woods.
The place is pretty well hidden from the main property. This area is where the single block ice carvings will go. They blazed a windy road around this house so there will be plenty of places to set them. There is another, smaller house to the left that will be a warm up space with hot drinks for the public. It also needs extensive remodeling.
Back to the beginning.
This is the main building that houses most of the offices, kitchen, warm up room for the artists and all the computer gear. They were rebuilding the roof when this picture was taken. Then the two story front portion hadn’t been delivered yet. There were some steps up into the building that Dick took a tumble off of a week or two after this. Had to have a couple reconstructive surgeries and spent some days in the hospital. Really banged himself up. He was feeling pretty good when I left in Sept.