The call has been made to schedule a rough-in inspection. Finally, all the electrical hardware is in. Mom & Dad were down a few weekends ago and dad helped me snake the leads through the wall for the switch on the stairway. The 4" recessed light is in place at the bottom of the stairs and is switched at the top and bottom of the stairway. The finished space lighting is split in 2 zones, with 3 way switches. I have dimmers at the bottom of the stairs and standard switches at the door into the unfinished space.
I pretty much gutted all the basement wiring that existed and ran new wiring for the existing basement circuit. I installed 4 lights in the unfinished space where there was only 1. This made a huge difference and will help a lot when it's closed off. These lights are also on a 3 way switch at the bilco door and at the door into the finished space.
Wiring for the play side was fairly straight forward. The 2 recessed lights in the soffit are included in a switched circuit with 2 outlets. I plan to install drop ceiling on the side with the outlets so I figured it would be easiest to terminate the recessed fixtures with a plug so I could remove them easily if I had to.
I finished around the pole with 2x3's. I used the concrete nails to fix the treated base in place. I wanted to have space for an outlet and leave the front of the finish feature flush with the soffit side above to eliminate any steps in the drywall. I made it 7-1/4 square. I put this outlet in after the fact, so I had to pull back some wiring to include this in the circuit, but that was easy. I think I'll go back and put some support blocks in to keep the 2x3's stiff enough. I don't want to have the drywall cracking every time someone bumps it.
The only thing I have left to do is hang the smoke detector in the planned unfinished space, terminate the phone line and run the speaker wires.
I pretty much gutted all the basement wiring that existed and ran new wiring for the existing basement circuit. I installed 4 lights in the unfinished space where there was only 1. This made a huge difference and will help a lot when it's closed off. These lights are also on a 3 way switch at the bilco door and at the door into the finished space.
Wiring for the play side was fairly straight forward. The 2 recessed lights in the soffit are included in a switched circuit with 2 outlets. I plan to install drop ceiling on the side with the outlets so I figured it would be easiest to terminate the recessed fixtures with a plug so I could remove them easily if I had to.
I finished around the pole with 2x3's. I used the concrete nails to fix the treated base in place. I wanted to have space for an outlet and leave the front of the finish feature flush with the soffit side above to eliminate any steps in the drywall. I made it 7-1/4 square. I put this outlet in after the fact, so I had to pull back some wiring to include this in the circuit, but that was easy. I think I'll go back and put some support blocks in to keep the 2x3's stiff enough. I don't want to have the drywall cracking every time someone bumps it.
