day one hundred three // twenty nine.

so i was really hoping that i wouldn't have to do any wiring today. alas, there was more to do. marianne, megan & i started the day by going through the whole building & checking everything again. and unfortunately, there were a few circuits that needed to be fixed. but we got people working on everything, and by about 1.00 when i had to leave, almost everything was good to go!

also today, the electricians started connecting everything together! i'm pretty sure they were laughing at our wiring work/hating themselves for having to deal with it. hahah but they were super nice about everything. they did point out a few things that are not going to work, like when we have multiple wires running up one stud, they have to be ziptied together so that they are nice and compact, and therefore pass inspection. [and by the by, if we don't pass our inspection this week, i'm probably going to have an anuerism]. she also said that for some of the boxes, where we have like a 10 wires coming out, we're going to have to get bigger boxes. this is mostly related to the pancake boxes for the fans, which technically only have room for one wire. yet we have 6 coming out of some of them. oops. but she said it won't be a huge problem, they'll just get different boxes.

i also realized today that chad, our electrical engineer who did the electrical plans, is officially crazy. i mean he's super nice and quite cute, but NOT exactly the best electrical engineer. i had been starting to realize this, since we had to do many things differently in real life than he specified in the plan, and today the electrician lady confirmed this suspicion. she was saying that in a lot of places around site, there were extra wires that don't really need to be there. aka, there's easier ways to go about doing things. but oh well, it's done now. i also realized today that i could probably be an electrician. if i didn't hate wiring so much, that is. but now that we're pretty much done, i have all the information necessary to wire a house. it kind of sucks that i had to learn it in pieces as we were doing it, but i could now legitimately wire a building. and maybe it wouldn't take 3 weeks. i could also probably make my own electrical plans, and only have to look up a few codes here and there. anyway, i suppose for the past 3 weeks i just got all caught up in hating wiring, and i didn't realize that i was actually learning all this cool shit. so yeah. i realized it today, and it's kind of awesome :)