Days 53-57 (December 9-14)

There has been a shake up in the management team for the project.  It appears that the new management is more Type A like Kate and I.  Certainly, there are more workers on site and they are starting at 0830 instead of 1000.

We now have six job sites going at once--the Living Room, the Master Bedroom, the Master Bedroom closet, the extension, the clean up form the driveway refurbishment, and the deck.

First the Living Room.  Once upon a time we had a living room,

then the living room moved to the dining room and the kitchen

except for the sofa that moved to the foyer.  Starbucks was not pleased that the sofa was not right side up and that there was no room to stretch out.

But all is not lost.  There is still an easy chair to curl up in...until it moves again

The passageway to the extension is finally open for a few hours so that we can see what the view will be from the living room once this job is finished,

The tile is going into the living room here.  After watching this for a while, this was definitely one that I am happy to have contracted out.  Up to this point, the hardest working trade that I had seen was the carpenters.  They are mere laggards compared to the tilers.

The tilers came in on Saturday to finish up laying the tile in the living room so that they could grout on Monday.

The Master Bedroom has been almost completely vacated.  Most of the bedroom furniture is in the bathroom and we are sleeping in the guest room.  This is being done to get rid of the hideous popcorn ceiling in the Master Bedroom and the Master bedroom closet.

 

 

 

The upstairs bathroom is nearing completion.  We expect that everything should be done except the shower enclosure by the end of next week.  The tiling is done with the exception of final clean up.  The wainscoting is almost finished.  The sheet rock has been prepped for painting.

As far as the extension goes, the trim is in place around the windows and doors, the REAL HONEST TO GOODNESS doors have arrived and they are installed.  The sleepers for the deck are in place and the trex deck is at 90 percent.  They ran a bit short on materials and will need to finish next week.  All of the mudding has been completed on the inside and it appears that the sanding is nearing completion.  The tiling of the extension floor has started and is about 10% complete.  Most of the baseboards are installed in the extension. Stucco is a bit of a question mark.  The first sample was prepared three weeks ago.  It was judged to be too light at the time but a second sample has not yet made it to us.  Stucco was never intended to be critical path, but it could get that way.

All in all, much progress was made this week.  This is the first time in seven weeks that we have had workers here every day of the week.  Hopefully this drive to completion will continue.  Next week, the project manager who did the previous two projects is assuming the reigns.  We will be happy to see him.  We have faith that he can keep the momentum of the last week going.