I Think This Image Speaks for Itself...

That was the small backhoe in the yard to work on the drainline. Now that's done and the plumbers are coming back on Tuesday to finish the work and sometime next week we'll have the plumbing inspected. Downside? Tonight the washer hook-up must have come undone again because I had a utility room floor full of standing water. (Second time in four or five days... Ugh.)

But, on the bright side, we did give our materials list to Frank and he expects to have our floorboards in two or three days. We also did some test matching of stain on one of our old boards that the Husband had planed and a pumpkin pine board that Frank gave us and Minwax's "Gunstock" oil-based stain was a near perfect match for the color that our floors are now. It's just a shade lighter, which given that one of the goals of this remodel is to make the kitchen brighter, lighter should work.

Once the pluming inspection is done we can drywall the ceiling and essentially every other wall in the place, then once the new floorboards are down we can get the floor sanded. Once the drywall is done and the floor sanded the cabinets can go in. Once the cabinets are in, we can get the countertop templates made and have the floor stained/refinished. Meanwhile, Tuesday is the measure day for the utility room floor... the utility room floor will need to be installed at some point preferably before the kitchen floor is sanded (as the w/d will need to be moved out of the utility room and most likely into the kitchen while the work is being done...)

Monday is our big meeting with the folks from the HD and their subcontractor Carlos. So far all Carlos' guys have done was some light demo (while they did remove the cabinets and the ceiling, the plumbers and electricians have removed more of the walls than they did...) they have done nothing else. Carlos started off on a slightly wrong foot initially by filing our permits with the wrong township (who called me and then I had to pick them up and take them to the right township). Then when he and his guys showed up to do the demo he argued that while he would demo the ceiling, carting away the demolished ceiling wasn't in the contract (because that makes so much sense!) We figured that it was a good idea to meet with Carlos, our HD designer and the contracting company who hired Carlos to go over exactly what is in our contract, since Carlos seems to think that much of cabinetry installation is our burden, even though at this stage it seems like that's all we're really paying HD to do.

Tomorrow? Some plastering.