Back in January, one of our local propane companies had a great sale on little wall heaters that looked perfect for my storage/shop building. So I bought one, and scheduled the installation of the gas line for "early February." HAH!
They were supposed to come with a trenching machine and cut the 100 foot ditch needed to bury the propane line...but it rained, and snowed, and snowed, and rained. Upshot was that they never had enough dry days in a row to cut the trench, since the machine is heavy and would have "got maaahrd up," (as the guy from the company said.)
Finally they told me that if I dug the trench, they'd come "right away" and put the line in. So that's what I did...by hand. And then they told me it would be the best part of a week before they could come put in the line. Last Monday, they at last got it installed, and the little heater really works well.
When heavy snow fell Tuesday, it was cool to look out the back window of the house and see that snow was NOT sticking to the roof of the shop, as it had previously, since the little heater was puffing away. Of course, that was also bad news, since it meant that the heat was going out through the roof. I still have to get my ceiling insulation and ceiling panels in place, but I'm probably going to have to wait until Matt or someone else can help me put them up.
In the meantime, I've got almost all the panels in on the walls. I lack two sizable panels under the shelves in the storage area (I built the shelves first so that I could hook the supports for them directly to the building framing--they will be holding a lot of weight. I also have a couple of small areas to finish near windows, doors, and previously-installed panels. I hope to finish all that this weekend and maybe, maybe begin moving things from the basement (and the living room!) to the storage area.
