Marat warned us the Electrician would be coming, so earlier this week Andreas met Marat and Gena (like henna) at the house to talk about electrics. Surprise, he's a little Russian Latvian. :)
Although Andreas and I had spent a couple hours looking over the house plans and placing outlets and lights, seems Gena was not particularly interested however between Marat's experience, Gena's electrician's eye and Andreas waving around our drawings, they did manage to come up with a electrical installation plan.
Thursday (today) was the start date and since there were still some questions, I accompanied Andreas over first thing in the morning to see Gena. He was pleased to see us and we started with some lights in the master bath (I never knew there could be so many in a bathroom!) and then moved on to the upstairs hall. Despite stomping around and back and forth and saying no no no, I did get the switch configuration I preferred. That was Gena stomping and say no, not me! He's very excitable.
Then we looked at some lights in the rest of the upstairs, and the master. In the middle of this Gena got a call and he packed up in a flash and dashed out the door! He left his doodle of our light layout, and said Marat needed him. We just shrugged and placed X's on the wall for the kitchen outlets, then off I went to work.
Later that day Andreas stopped in as Gena had more questions. We're not sure what, if anything, is next but apparently Marat is away for two weeks and we are also out of town for a few days. We were worried about not being able to be available and check in on the progress so Gena has been told to just put in all the boxes, no wires, until after Christmas. We'll be back to have a look between Christmas and New Years.
A couple of pictures of some electrical work
A few other pictures of some work done recently.
Storage closed under the stairs
View through from the kitchen/dining to the living room/front hall
A talented Sergei the carpenter, boxing in a duct in the basement rec room.
We had a little snow in the master bath!
Front door, from the inside.
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