Framing update

I know I've been saying this for a while now, but I think I might be telling the truth this time...

I should finish the framing this weekend.

Yep. All of it. Bulkheads, doorways, strange little closets - the whole shebang.

What's more, we have our electrician coming by this morning to scope out the project and work up an estimate for us. I'm hoping he won't look at the framing I've already done and tell us it's all wrong. (Still, better it coming from him than the inspector...) Speaking of which, I've been pretty busy this week and, once more, I have the pictures to prove it. Some of them were even taken with my new camera!

Looking back over the past few posts, I must admit that I've been somewhat remiss in keeping you all up-to-date on the framing progress. The last time I posted pictures of the framing, I hadn't even started to frame in the closet, save for its back wall. As you can see from the following series, I've come quite a ways since then.

First up, here's an establishing shot of the whole closet area:



The areas of interest are really the whole left side where the closet is going to go, and the duct on the top right, where we'll be building a bulkhead to hold all those wires. Jutting out from the wall is the outline of where the right-hand wall of the closet will be. Here's another look at that:



Heh, up close it kinda looks like an optical illusion or an Escher print. Or maybe I'm looking too hard. The reason it's so wide is that we want to run a duct line down from the top so we can put in a register at the bottom of the pillar.

Anyway, here's what I did on Thursday while the War Department was at the ballet:



I think even Amy had to admit that was a good night's work! Here's another shot of the inside of the closet so you can admire the tricky bits of the framing (all of it, really):



I also found time to wrap the duct in some insulating wrap so we could run the wires through the same space without any fear of them melting or overheating:



I taped up the joints with foil tape last night (wasn't THAT a fun little task - not!), and did some more bracing and some of the little finicky stuff that needs to be done before I can start on the bulkhead in front of the duct. None of that makes very good pictures, though.

And of course, speaking of pictures, here's one of the supervisor kitty in his natural habitat:



(Every five minutes for the past three days, Amy's been telling me to stop taking so many pictures of the cats. But she won't let me take any pictures of her, so this is what I'm reduced to. Besides, look at that picture! My old camera could never have taken that shot, not in a million years.

Fine, I'll stop with the pictures of my cat. Sheesh.)

Anyway, I have to go wake Amy up so that she's not showing the electrician around in her pajamas. Good times.