French electricians have big drills

conduit run amuck

conduit in dining room

9 Nov 2011

closing the bathroom floor holes 

This week the only worker we have had at the Ruin is the Electrician, Kevin.  David and his crew worked part of a day on Monday pouring concrete on the hole in the bathroom floor.  It is now ready for the shower collone to be set then we can start to tile in there.

Jerry is struggling to “birth” the bookcase.  I think he is about to turn it over to someone who knows how to work with out of plumb, not square walls and metal rails for framing material.  He is learning to cuss in French and he is practicing his English cussin’ too!  I am not bothering learning to cuss in French…I do a really good job in English.  I have been using my good English cussin’ on the dirty job of  sanding the ceilings!

the bookcase

Kevin, the electrican 

 Kitchen Conduit(black hoses)

Kevin has been busy.  He has drilled holes in every wall and I now have conduit sticking out of the walls, and floors and running up the walls.  We have never seen electric conduit set like this.  He drills the holes in the dirt and rock. Then he put a dollop of cement here and there to hold the conduit in place.    He has also drilled thru my tile floors and then the conduit runs first one way then the next.  In the houses we have built the wires are threaded thru the 2 X 4s or the 2 X 6s and the wire is stapled to the boards then holes are cut in the drywall.  Anyway, here are the photos of the first two days of Kevin’s work.   

conduit in bedroom

Kevin's drill

the wall I just sanded