New Wall - Day 4

Well, Day 4 turned out to be interesting.

Because it is easier to put up the drywall without the cut hole and use the framing of the new wall to find the edges once the board is up, the HVAC had to go on vacation for a little while.  In July.  And then we realized that the thermostat had actually been left on the original wall, which was now behind the new wall.  So the wall came down, the thermostat was removed, and the wall went back up.

Once that was done, SPF screwed the drywall in place, caulked the seams (this is, after all, an air intake, so we don't want lots of dust or weird wall stuff getting sucked into the HVAC), and taped up the intake with metal HVAC tape to make it clean and functional.

 We weren't sure if this was necessary, but it doesn't hurt, so we did it anyway.

 After disconnecting the thermostat wires and pulling them through the wall into the cabinet, we had a bit of bare wire to bare wire contact.  This lead to a strange clicking sound and a new personality to our HVAC.  New in that it is in a coma.  In July.  So we taped up the ends so that they wouldn't touch each other again and called the HVAC guy, who is supposed to be here today between 4:30 and 5:00.  Last night was thankfully not too warm, and our electric bill should be smaller for it, so silver lining.
The poor HVAC has an error code mechanism that blinks short blinks for the first digit and long blinks for the second digit (allowing for an alarming number of error codes.)  Anyway, it looked like the poor thing was trying to signal SOS.  But no, this was two short-four long, not three long-three short-three long.  So, at least it didn't think it was dying.

When it is fixed (turns out to be a shorted 24 volt fuse) it should look nice.  But we will need to paint and drywall around it as it has been passed back through the wall and connected to the dormant thermostat display.

The vent looks nice, though!  Sturdy and fixed nicely into the new wall.