On Tuesday, the contractors roughed in most of the electrical wiring, I roughed in the communications wiring, and the HVAC contractors re-routed heating lines and air conditioning ductwork. That’s five of us working in the same area of the house trying not to trip over each other, and it was mostly smooth sailing.
This is how things break down:
Electrical: In the laundry room, there are separate circuits for the washer and dryer and the overhead light and 2 plugs are on a 20 amp circuit. The bedroom plugs and a hallway plug are on a single circuit to be protected by an Arc Fault Interrupter. The bathroom takes up another circuit, with another one to be added for the motor for the massage tub. For the lights, due to the layout, extensive use was made of three-way switching, so that each light can be controlled from a couple of locations in each room.
Communications: Just as in my daughter’s room upstairs, I wanted to keep the potential layout of the master bedroom as flexible as possible. This meant running two Cat5e and 2 RG6 coax cables to three locations in the room. That’s another dozen wires terminating at the hub in the basement. That’s also a lot of tedious work with Quick Ports in the future.
HVAC: With the steps to the laundry room now in place, the HVAC contractors were able to re-connect the hot water lines for the heat. They also ran the duct work to the new rooms, so there will be air conditioning in the bedroom, bathroom and laundry.
With all the rough-ins complete, we are ready for the insulation and drywall which arrived in the morning.