The excitement continues at 488. The drywall is up and we now have ROOMS! Though the process about sent us both over the edge (imagine huge pieces of drywall being dragged across and dropped on brand new polished concrete floors) we are very pleased with the work that they completed. The finishers will be here this week to mud, tape, and sand. So the week between Christmas and New Years we should be able to clean things up a bit and start priming the walls and ceiling. The storage room is the only room in the basement that we are finishing for now. I am not sure that we will even let the primer dry before we start unpacking the POD. Though the POD has been very convenient and their service impeccable, we are very ready to GET IT OUT OF THE YARD and find a few items that have been missing since the move.
To prep for the drywall Andy and Doug spent some very long hours last weekend replacing warped wall studs, reinforcing ceiling beams in the living room, framing in the garage doors, and building attic access doors. I worked with Andy running speaker wire throughout the house so there is no shortage of good music in our future :).
The saga continues with the roofers. The owner of the roofing company has apparently ‘lost it’ and is sending in crews with expectations that are impossible to achieve (sound familiar??). If they finish the day without finishing our roof he fires most of the crew. Helpful?? I don’t think so. Anyway, so a really nice man named Charlie showed up yesterday as a subcontractor to our roofing contractor. He seems to have a lot of experience and is supposed to ‘finish the job’ for Summit. He was on the roof until dark in 10 degree, damp and windy weather and didn’t finish the job. Before he left he told us that he is going to tell Summit that they will need more material and another guy to get the job done. GULP! I hope we see dear, sweet Charlie again…
As mentioned earlier we are finishing the storage room in the basement which means that the radiant tubing for the heated 1st floor has to be hung this weekend. This is Andy’s project and he has been scrambling to get the radiant tube design completed and the tubing attached to the underside of the floor.  It really isn’t a difficult application, however feeding >300 feet of very stiff PEX tubing through small holes at 9 feet is proving to be more troublesome than originally thought. Keep your fingers crossed that things roll a little easier today and we get it all hung.
On top of Christmas shopping, I have had the distinct pleasure of picking out all of the lighting fixtures for the house. Wow, has that been a time consuming task. The big box stores didn’t get any of our business I can proudly say! I have been purchasing our lighting from Bellacor, Croft and Little, The Lighting Universe and Euro Style lighting.
Enjoy the pics!
