security cam

Someone asked me if I thought anyone would break into the house and steal all my tools. 

One, most of my tools are old and not worth anything.  The rest are all registered by serial number. 

Two, there are motion sensor security cameras there.  They’re all over the place, recording all motion.  The inside cams alert me to any movement.  Here is the living room cam. 

 

Three, I have good neighbours who keep a good eye on the neighbourhood. 

Four, the recyclers who come by to collect cans and bottle know that, if I see them in the alley, I will generally give them what I have.  No use in breaking into the house and breaking up the goodwill. 

insulation, cleanup, vapour barrier

We finally insulated around the electrical panel.

 

I thought we were going to add another outside receptacle billed to the second floor, but I decided against it.  12-2 wire is expensive.  (No, I’m not running 50′ of 14-2 to plug in a vehicle block heater that uses close to 15 Amps.) 

Lots of clean-up and organization of tools, materials, equipment, etc.  I only had three hours between other work, so not a lot was done. 

But we did manage to put up the first vapour barrier in bedroom 1, so that’s a little progress.  No pic for some reason.  Probably in a hurry to get out the door. 

more electrical, more removing partition walls

So today was mostly about prepping for 6-mil poly (plastic vapour barrier).  No time yet to put it up – prep was kind of time consuming.  We wound the kitchen circuit wiring (a 20-Amp kitchen counter and a 15-Amp microwave) through the furring strips. 

That done, we all stood around the 2nd storey stairway to determine the best plan of attack.

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