Political: how much you want to bet Wes Clark ends up on Kerry’s? Kitchen: installation is proceeding. Russell spent all day and Jon spent about half the day working on the bases and base cabinets. About a third of those seem to be sitting in place and presumably are leveled. Nothing’s bolted into place yet. […]
Jon hauled away a truckload of crap to the dump. George filled in the cute little missing notches of underlayment in the kitchen, installed the cover to the subpanel, finished peeling back carpet from the foyer closet and the mouth of the hallway, started marking and measuring the foyer for its underlayment, and got himself […]
So I was right: the sheetrock work is done. It’s time for underlayment, so George came and spent a vigorous half-day installing underlayment in the kitchen. It doesn’t sound like much, but having underlaid several bathrooms, I have vigorous respect for that accomplishment. Allow me to explain. Tile–even stone–is fragile stuff, because it’s thin. Say, […]
About those black raspberries: They grow like weeds in my neighborhood (and some of my more idiotic neighbors actually consider them to be weeds). They serve as my bait to get me out jogging regularly at least one month out of the year. This year, they’re ripe about a month early, and they’re plumper, juicier, […]
Today Chris the Taper Mudder Guy finished up (I think) the sheetrock work. I think all he did was skip-trowel the music room walls. The kitchen and dining room will be untextured. After 3-4 hours he packed up and left. That would be about it for today. New pictures for today show the winter-like effect […]
Thursday and Friday were all about sheetrock. Chris the Taper Mudder Guy has pounded up the last hunks of sheetrock around the subpanel, patched the holes upstairs, and patched the big hole in the closet where the subpanel used to be, and taped, corner-thingied, and mudded everything everywhere. He’s also gotten little globs of compound […]
Today Jon arrived at 2, sanded down the rough spots on the subfloor in preparation for putting down tile underlayment, and left for a 3 o’clock appointment. The sheetrock guys postponed starting until tomorrow.
Old pictures: Before Preparing for chaos Demolition and chaos One month in New pictures: Still later
Real Estate Guy just called back. The lot next door was listed at $139K and sold recently for $150K. Bad news, good news. Bad news, it’s sold, and I suppose somebody’s going to be building soon. Good news, I couldn’t have afforded it anyway (way not), so no use torturing myself over it. Argh.
Jon was right–it’s starting to feel like things are moving fast now. I was in North Carolina all last week for work, so I’ve gotten behind again. A lot has happened: All the odds and ends to get ready for rough inspection. Rough inspection. Jon was worried about some of the plumbing changes for the […]