August 24-28
Monday: Bonus room bookcase inserts. Under stair cabinets. Upstairs network outlets connected while we were away but the network doesn’t function (cable modem was connected to switch instead of Airport Extreme) Continue reading Week 24: Under stair cabinets, paint touch ups, bookshelves
August 17-21
We were away this week, so I don’t know what day things were done, but over the course of this week: Continue reading Week 23: While we were away
Sunday (July 26th) around 5pm I heard a rhythmic tap, tap tap coming from the downstairs hallway. I’m sure I’m not the only person who can’t relax until I know what a noise (car or house) is, so I went to investigate. Continue reading Water leak that was both bad news and good
June 1-5
Monday: Sheetrock guys didn’t show until about 11:30am, then only brought in materials and papered the floors. Under two hours and they were off! Continue reading Week 12: drywall, skylight framing, taping?
May 11-May 15
Monday: A very noisy day as they work on taking the kitchen apart. Continue reading Week 9: demolish kitchen, master bath & half bath
May 4 – May 8
Monday: No workers today (scheduling issues). I’m not happy but was able to move things out of family room & kitchen, preparing for next week’s “demo day”. Continue reading Week 8: Glass, mini-demo, kitchen migration – did I mention glass?
April 20 – 24
Monday: Bathtub, faucets for vanity sinks and toilet installed. No water for the morning. Continue reading Week 6 – plumbing, garage drywall, glass?
Originally, we thought we’d just replace or refinish the tub in their bathroom. The surface had worn and become very stained and the tile grout was icky making it hard to keep clean (or at least it never looked clean even when it had been cleaned!). Continue reading What’s wrong with the kids’ bathroom?
April 13 – 17
Monday: A quiet day – just the tile setter starting on the floor tile so that the glass company could come and template the frosted glass wall/door in the afternoon. Continue reading Week 5 – finishing tile, electrical trim, stair inspection
April 6 – 10
Monday: Opening up the garage wall (mindful of the whole house water shutoff pipe right there) and mud room closet wall preparing for building the supports for the new beam. First tiles installed. Continue reading Week 4 – Noise, noise, beams, tiling & noise
