House Building Update (and more pictures)

The doors and cabinets have arrived, although they’re not installed yet. Also, the heating registers are installed in most (maybe even all) of the rooms. I have some pictures. I especially like the box that quite clearly has its “This side up” arrows pointing down. (No, the camera was not upside-down, nor was the image rotated.)

The thing that’ll take forever is the telephone poles so that we can get power and data. We may end up having a completed house just sitting there for a few weeks without power (and thus, without an occupancy permit). The person who owns the land across the private road from us said that they would sign an easement to let Verizon and Mass. Electric put up poles on the road, but they apparently haven’t done so after about two weeks. So, we’re probably going to just put a pole on the corner of my parents’ yard near the paved road, and have wiring go underground from there all the way to the house (instead of just from a pole-on-the-private-road to the house). This method will cost a bit more, but then we don’t have to worry about anything since it’s all on our lands. (The person who owns the land across the private road is making a rather dumb decision by not getting that in quickly, since having the utilities put poles on the road would likely increase his property value significantly.)

We’re also currently planning on having data wiring go underground between my parents’ house and ours, so that we can network with each other and share an Internet pipe.