I had few days with the working team this Valentine's week, and it was super-productive, if very cold!:
Landed:
- Framing for ground and 2nd storey
- Tile for kitchen, upstairs bathroom, and basement bathroom
- Window framing/casing selected and ordered
- All new interior doors selected and ordered
- Custom master vanity and coordinating medicine cabinets selected and ordered
- Electrical placement on ground and 2nd storey
- Inspection passed for basement plumbing - the new cast-iron underground
- Rough-plumbing complete
- Old chimney completely removed/sealed
- Trench dug for the gas company (should they every appear) to relocate the old basement meter outside.
It is probably hard to see progress in the following pictures, but the place is coming along! Six weeks to go!
Upstairs Bath meeting of the minds - decided:
- Ceiling to be raised to max height
- Shower fixture placement
- Size of medicine cabinets and vanity placement
- Removal of the clunky linen closet in favor of an empty space I can fill later with a "found" piece of furniture.
- Location of bathroom chandelier and sconces (and the other necessary bits)
- Depth of decking around tub
The
master bedroom is seeing little in terms of structural change, excepting the closet layout/location of the new ductwork, and slight migration (a "scootch") of the door/interior arch.
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| the ductwork graveyard on the deck outside the master |
The biggest changes observed are in the living room/adjacent kitchen/dining. Once the ceiling was removed, one could really get a sense of the expanded space - and how the cased archways will fit into the space.
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| The guys hard at work removing about 289873 nails |
In the
upstairs guest room, the room has been framed, the attic ladder relocated, and the new upstairs a/c unit placed.
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| As per the earlier post - soon to be navy/white! |
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| The new space for the attic fan - not idea, but the only place to go! |
The
basement is still a hot mess - the inspection for pipes (cleared yesterday) has meant that cement couldn't be poured, and the framing couldn't be started. TBD - when the gas company will show up to relocate the gas-meter. So - I still own a dirt floor. And a trench in the front "yard" (quotes to denote the fact this is a tiny space.) Oh - and evidently I'm soon to purchase a new hot water heater.
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| Loving the dangling furnace - on the cusp of removal |
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| my "old" hot water heater |
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| trust me - in two months, the wheel barrows will be gone, and a bed/end tables will sit in this finished space |
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| the soon to be new bathroom in the basement |
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| So - the sump pump wasn't in exactly the right place - but will be soon, thanks to the digging work of these guys |
And - probably to give me some hope - a sample window casing in the front living room windows:
Door Selected and Baseboards selected:
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| A bit pricer at $200 each, but there are only eight in the whole house - plus a handful of closets still TBD |
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| 5 1/2 inch |
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