King of the Wilderness

In mid-August, after Lin Yu’an completed all the sealing and filling work for the walls alone.

The previously ordered interior renovation materials were delivered to the door of Wood Forest Land in batches by several heavy trucks.

Rolls of cables, bundles of PEX pipes, a large quantity of light steel dragon bones, gypsum boards, wooden floors, and various bathroom equipment were all transported into the immense wooden house.

Lin Yu’an announced to the returning David and Mike, ”Alright, everyone, the thirty-day extreme interior renovation challenge begins now!”

The first step of the renovation was to plan to build the framework for all non-load-bearing partition walls inside the spacious wooden house.

Lin Yu’an invited mechanician Cody to help, who is somewhat of an expert in this field.

They chose light steel dragon bones that were more standard, moisture-resistant, and had better fire-resistant properties.

Cody brought high-tech equipment this time, a German Bosch three-dimensional laser level.

He placed it on a tripod in the center of the room, pressed the switch, and several bright red laser lines were instantly projected across the entire space.

On the floor, walls, and ceiling, forming an absolutely precise horizontal and vertical cross-reference line.

”Wow, what’s this? A weapon from Star Wars?” David marveled at the magical sight.

”Better than a weapon,” Lin Yu’an smiled.

Cody said, ”With this, we won’t need to repeatedly measure with a level.”

”These lines are the absolute zero points for our entire interior renovation. All the walls and ceilings will be based on them.”

Lin Yu’an took out a measuring tape and an ink pad, and together with Cody, meticulously traced all precise positioning lines for partition walls along the laser lines on the enormous foundation platform and the second-floor decking.

Each ink line was clear and straight, with an error margin of no more than a millimeter.

”These are the positioning lines for the Dragon Bones.”

He pointed at the ink lines on the ground, explaining the term to David and the audience: ”They are the top and bottom rails of the wall frame, like two parallel tracks, they determine the final position of the wall.”

Cody held a professional light steel dragon bone cutting machine, resembling a small table saw, but the wheel disc was specifically for cutting metal.

He donned safety goggles and gloves, and according to Lin Yu’an’s reported sizes, precisely cut each three-meter-long silver dragon bone to the needed length.

Amid the piercing cutting sound, sparks flew, filled with industrial aesthetic!

Their cooperation was seamless, with Lin Yu’an using a high-power impact driver to firmly fasten the upper and lower rails, the ”Dragon Bone,” with specialized expansion screws onto the wood beams of the ceiling and the concrete platform of the ground.

Then, each column, the ”Vertical Dragon Bone,” was inserted into the slots of the Dragon Bone at standard intervals of every forty centimeters, initially clamped with powerful pliers, and finally fixed in place with self-tapping screws.

In just two days, the skeletal structures for all rooms on the first and second floors, including partition wall frames for bedrooms, bathrooms, dressing rooms, and storage rooms, were completed.

These light steel frames inside the spacious wooden house defined a clear space for future living.

After the framework was completed, they didn’t immediately board up, but instead moved on to the core hidden work of threading and pre-embedding water and electricity.

With his rich practical experience in oil fields, Cody became the undisputed chief engineer for water and electrical systems.

The first thing he handled was the entire house’s drainage system, holding a thick black ABS sewage pipe, he began measuring at the reserved positions for bathrooms.

Back during foundation construction, Lin Yu’an had pre-embedded a massive fiberglass septic tank underground and laid down a main sewage pipeline, with a diameter of four inches, towards the septic tank.

But the septic tank was not the end point, downstream from it, he had dug three parallel ditches each twenty meters long and about one meter deep.

Inside these were a professionally laid drainage field system, with a thick layer of gravel at the bottom, perforated infiltration pipes in the middle, and the top layer covered with gravel and geotextile fabric.

Only this drainage field can truly return wastewater to the Earth.

Now, Cody’s job was to precisely connect all water points’ sewage branch pipes inside the house to this main trunk like branches.

He used a specialized pipe-cutting machine to cut the ABS pipes to the required lengths and used cleaner and glue to securely bond the pipes with various tees and elbows.

At every connection point, he checked with the slope bubble on the level to ensure each pipe had the precise slope of one-quarter inch per foot.

Cody explained, ”This slope cannot be too steep or too flat. Too steep, water rushes away leaving solids behind; too flat, nothing flows.”

They installed 7.5-centimeter pipes for toilets, showers, and floor drains, 5-centimeter pipes for sinks and washing machines, eventually gathering and connecting them all to the main sewage pipe protruding from the foundation.

He first took out a high-power drill, fitted with a specialized ”hole saw.”

During the reserved positions on the light steel dragon bones, he drilled out holes for threading wires, and carefully placed a plastic protection ring around each hole’s edge to prevent the sharp metal edges from cutting into the electrical wire insulation.

Then, they started from the reserved massive distribution box position in the storage room, radiating out a giant ”circuit map” across the entire house.