It's been slow going.... more or less... as interior items get worked on.
Alot of the interior stuff is pretty labor-intensive so it appears to go pretty slowly on the surface. But they can be very substantial nonetheless....
The last few days on-site have seen the exterior (and fireplace) stone arrive and the beginnings of the "hard surface" (non-carpeting) flooring being installed.
We're going to have stone on the exterior of the house up to the siding level just below the windows, and only on the front face of the house.
Late last week large crates of stone and mortar showed up on-site....
...and here's a small stack of the limestone sills that go beneath the windows, they showed up the same day as the stone.
Also, the flooring began to be installed. They started with the largest single selection of flooring that we chose. This flooring extends throughout the kitchen, dining, adjacent hallway, half-bath, and laundry room. This first flooring type is an LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tile)... really the only difference between regular vinyl composition tile flooring is that LVT is patterned to look more like natural materials (i.e. - wood, granite, etc).
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| looking in from the entry foyer |
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| main hallway |
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| kitchen and dining areas |
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| laundry room |
They also installed the flooring in the girls' bathroom upstairs. (also LVT)
Robin brought the rest of our flooring samples out to this house this day as well.. She placed them in their respective positions next to the painted walls and tile already installed.
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| foyer flooring sample - ceramic tile |
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| living room carpet sample |
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| office carpet sample |
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| master bedroom carpet sample |
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| master bathroom sample - ceramic tile |
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| Lyndsey's bedroom carpet sample |
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| Rachel's room carpet sample |
The flooring is scheduled to be finished tomorrow (Tuesday), and Joe tells us the cabinets are schedule to start being installed on Thursday.
While that is going on, there should be two guys from the flooring company working on the master bathroom's tile shower (for 5 days or so).
Also, the stone should be getting started being installed some time this week. And depending on when he gets the permits back from the County, Dion will build the mound system in the back yard.
The electrician is also slated to begin installing outlets, switches (etc), and temporary light fixtures very soon.
Things to come later this month: The concrete driveway is schedule to go in some time after the middle of the month, and the lawn is schedule to go in about a week after that. Some time between now and then the excavator will have to show up again to do the final grading too.
Paul
