So Much Progress!

Just a week ago they had hung the drywall and were waiting for it to dry. I didn't expect much from our meeting this week - probably just finished drywall and maybe just starting on the trim. I was so surprised at how much had been done in just a week!

The tile floors are done. The wood floor in our entire first floor is done. The tile in the 2nd bath surround and the master shower tile were almost done. All the doors were hung and they had just started hanging cabinets. There was already a first coat of paint and the siding was started on the outside. They were working away while we were there and there was stuff laying everywhere so I didn't get to spend as much time as I would have liked or taken as many pictures.

On top of all that fun we heard they started hanging siding on our side which is supposed to be stone so they had to pull it all down. This whole time we had the wrong bathtub in our 2nd bath. The one we had was made for the built-in surround thing but we were doing tile. Our PM joked with us like "why didn't you tell me we had the wrong bathtub this whole time?" Ha-ha. So that had already been swapped out. The light at the bottom of the stairs still hasn't been moved but he said they'd get to it (if they've already started painting, doesn't that make it harder to move? Just a thought...)

One thing I was surprised about was which direction all the doors were supposed to be hung. The double doors in the basement were supposed to open into the back room. We had even requested they open out into the main room, but were told "no" because it would block the light switch. Well, they were hung backwards from the way they were supposed to be, but conveniently the way we wanted. Our PM asked if we were okay with that, and I reminded him that he was the one that said "no" because of the light switch. So he offered to switch the light switch to face into the back room so it wouldn't be an issue. Why wasn't that an option in the first place?

Then today I was looking at some of the pictures I took and noticed that the basement door was also backwards and was swinging out into my dining room instead of into the stairwell and our master closet door was hung swinging into the closet and we had asked, and been allowed to switch it to open into the bathroom. I just popped an email over to our PM so hopefully they'll get these fixed okay. Just goes to show how much you can miss even when you're there, so take a lot of pictures and be sure to look at them when you have time to take it all in.

We also took a few measurements for some appliance purchases. We measured the area for the refrigerator since the floors and upper cabinets were in and the laundry room as I'm looking at some large capacity front-loaders.

The measurement's I pulled were:

Refrigerator:

• Bottom of cabinet to floor: 72"
• Width from wall to first side cabinet: 39"
• Width of wall inset behind refrigerator: 35"

Laundry Room:

• Width of Washer/Dryer area: 62"
• Deptch of Washer/Dryer area: 31"
• Width of doorway: 31"

Any finally a few pics!

Started the Siding

Upper Kitchen Cabinets

Master Bedroom

Master Shower Tile

2nd Bath Tile Surround

Double Doors in Basement

Stuff Everywhere

Laundry Room