June 29 – July 3
Monday: Morning zoo, afternoon silence! The painters (not a full crew) were finishing up initial wall painting in the bonus room and walls in the hall by the family room. The kitchen cabinets were delivered, unloaded and piled up in the family room. The hardwood floor crew (2) arrived as did the tile guy for the master bathroom!
The hardwood crew were patching the existing floor as needed given things we’ve moved around. The tile was delivered along with the Wedi board, but the linear drain was wrong, so the tile guy left.
The painters worked until early afternoon and will be back in a couple of weeks to do the stair railings and finish up.
Tuesday: Cabinet install started. Tile guy’s car died so he didn’t show up. Blind corner cabinet is cool!
Wednesday: Noise & Mayhem! The hardwood floor crew is here to sand and we have a new plastic bubble to try and keep the dust contained. Later today they will put the first coat of finish on the floor and we will have to leave for the evening. They are also putting in wooden register covers (to replace the metal ones – builder originals) which look lovely.
The tile guy appeared mid morning, apparently with the right drain part. At some point he has to get a wooden ramp to allow him access to the stairs without stepping on the wood.
Thursday: The hardwood floor got its second coat of oil-based finish first thing this morning. The project manager let the crew in (I was in my jammies at the Residence Inn 🙂 ) and they took half an hour and were gone. It was safe for socked feet by 11am so the tile guy was told to come at noon-ish and the project manager asked me to be at the house by 11 to let him in.
I arrived at 10:45am and the tile guy was already here working – he said he got in via a back door that was open… He worked on the walls for a while and will return at 8:30 tomorrow morning. We’ll be able to return home tomorrow – the smell is dissipating a bit already (Thursday at 2pm).
Friday: Returned home from the hotel.
Tile guy worked a half day on the walls in the shower in the master bathroom. No other workers as its a federal holiday on  Friday (for Independence Day).
Unless you count me as a worker – I’m inept, but much cheaper than the paid help, so I installed the brushed chrome door knobs on all the new gray doors. In the case of old meets new, like the kids’ bathroom door, the outside is brass and cream paint and the inside brushed chrome with gray.