Last week we finished laying all the pale gray/gold/blue slate downstairs. I say we, as I was a key worker on my own crew, cleaning, sorting, sawing, positioning, grouting and sealing the 8 x 16's we laid brick pattern in the downstairs garage entrance/powder bath/laundry room and the 12 x 12's we placed either side of the two-way 20 foot long x 11 foot high fireplace that divides the whole of the downstairs into four distinct areas of use. After three weeks in the driveway, the washer and dryer were re-installed.
Last Friday, I rented a truck and picked up all the solid birch doors we had made for downstairs and delivered them to the finisher.
On Saturday and Sunday, Bob and I worked from dawn to dusk to rid ourselves of the accumulated dust that six months of digging/grinding/sanding old concrete, old tile mortar, new concrete, new tile, dead flies (do contractors even know how to shut doors?) and sawdust have brought us and that we've been tracking in circles since January. I've actually vacuumed many times throughout, but you'd never know it. That stuff was EVERYWHERE. And I can now personally attest to how much dust the crevices in a rock fireplace can hold--I vacuumed every one, and wiped down every rock.
On Tuesday the roofer showed up to work with Jerry's Kids (my general) on the installation of the remote blower for the Viking range hood.
Yesterday, the electricians showed up and installed seven new indoor light fixtures and four exteriors. The wood floor guy showed up to finish the wood installation--most of the floor's down, but on the project where nothing goes right the first time, EVER, we had to run out of stair nosing and apparently, of course, so did the flooring manufacturer (Kahr's of Sweden), so more had to be custom-manufactured on the east coast. Window washers came in to rid us of six months of paint splatter, dust and gunk. And perhaps most monumental of all, Jerry's Kids hung the range hood.
Today, the stove installer comes at 1:00, and Lynden Sheet Metal comes to install the ducting between the hood and the 22 foot high ceiling, as well as take measurements for the stainless steel wrapper they're going to skin it with--for about 25% the price it would cost to buy same from Viking.
I don't have a sink, and I may never have cabinets, but by god I'm going to have an appliance to stare at!
Shucks. I've been called downstairs and may not be back soon enough to finish this before it times out, so I'll go ahead with the post and amend it later with the cabinet story (grab a hanky, it's a baddie) and pictures.
