House update: Wednesday

[electricland]

My aunt reports:

Today for lunch, Jane, Neil, John and I had grilled cheese open-faced sandwiches with bacon, tomato and dill pickle garnish.

The inspector came today, and John said he was pretty relaxed. Said could move in with some safety features: guard rails on the stairs (We had that! Really dumb. Just scarf something*.)smoke alarms in the stair wells, and no open electrical wiring.

John cleaned up and trimmed one corner of Jen's sink cabinet.
Cheers, Helen

*Anyone have any idea of what this means?**
**See edit.

Planning to go over again this evening and wire light fixtures. I've caught the bug. I figure if I do two or three a day, they'll be ready in no time! Would really, really like to have all my lights in the kitchen...

EDIT: I enquired about the scarf thing and got this in response:

scarf v tr. join the ends of (pieces of esp. timber, metal, or leather) by bevelling or notching them to fit and then bolting, brazing or sewing them together.

I was using the word in the pejorative sense, i.e. bung some pieces together and then take them down when the inspector is gone.

Glad to add to your knowledge.
Love Helen

I did not know that.

Comments

[nellisir.livejournal.com]

"scarf" can also mean to steal; or eat quickly.

Do you need railings on the exterior or interior stairs?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Interior; just the bit at the top of the stairs on the 3rd floor, so people don't fall down the hole.

We have A railing, but eventually it would be nice to have a proper banister.