18th, 19th and 20th

Things are still very busy around here. The deck outside our bedroom was demolished. We are replacing the door with a window, which will give us lots of extra usable room in our bedroom. We have to wait for the window to arrive, which will be a while (it will be ordered on Monday). The builder did suggest installing a second window in that wall to maintain symmetry, but it will use up too much space, so we're sticking with one. Russ called the Landscape designer to tell him the deck is now gone, so he doesn't need to cater for it..

The siding is progressing.. most of the old siding is down, the insulation is up, as is the sheet-rock. We're moving some power plugs, cable TV wires and phone wires while we have the siding down. The carpenters have been hacking down the bushes around the house to do the siding. Can't say I'm disappointed - those hedges bushes really were straight out of the 70s.

The concrete guys continued removing debris; they have laid supporting wire in prep for concrete and aggregate to be poured on Monday.

The carpenters fired a nail into a water pipe, so the plumber was called in to fix the leak :-)

The stone guy came by to template the fireplace. He's Australian, been here for 20+ years. Nice bloke.

The HVAC (heating/cooling) dude came by on Fri. Not too bright. Put holes in the walls to move heating ducts before actually checking the ducts could actually fit in the space under the floor. So instead of the ducts being installed int the walls, they will have to go in the floor. The idiot put a new hole in the floor right where a piece of furniture will go; even after I had told him and the contractor I was going to put furniture there. They did this while I was out for lunch. Argh! I also had to rush to the kitchen designer to pick up the specs for the Kitchen hood. The HVAC guy needed to know the specs! So I wasn't quite organized for that.

Electrician due on Mon. Need to make sure I have all the things I want him to do listed before then, including the location of the new lights outside.

While we were out at the FAAN walk on Sat, the carpenters came and removed the siding from the front upstairs. Cool. Looking forward to the siding being all consistent.