Mixed Results

It took a month before the electrician’s lackeys finally showed up and ran the additional HVAC power line, and then they did it wrong, so now he’s got to come back out to fix it. Supposedly that’ll be tomorrow morning, but he also said that about Tuesday morning, so we’ll see. On a more positive note, we passed our rough HVAC inspection. That also took more weeks than hoped, but other than some displeasure at our boiler vent on the side of the house, there weren’t any issues.

Drywall was supposedly to start this week, but so far nothing. That’s probably for the best, because we still need to clean out a bunch of stuff that’s in the way and we don’t want covered in drywall dust. I’m not entirely clear where all that stuff is going go, but we’ll figure something out. We also have a few sections of sound proofing insulation to put in and while I’ve made a lot of progress, I still haven’t finished installing the tile backer in the tub and shower surrounds yet. We’ve had some busy weekends, I haven’t had the energy in the evenings, and poor Sarah just had hernia surgery. This weekend we hope to get this all knocked out. I did manage to cut and thinset the curb in place for the master shower. The curb abuts the sloped shower base that I mentioned in a previous post and we’ll put a glass wall on top of it.

We’ve finally gotten a second quote on the back porch, but it was just as high as the last one, so now we’re trying to figure out how to swing this. I’m also trying to get the kitchen cabinets ordered, but still have to work out how to get the bank to pay them out of the escrow, since they aren’t an actual installer, just a supplier. Meanwhile, they’ve started work on finishing the front porch, which includes the composite decking, cladding the exposed wood, new stairs, and railings. More to come as that progresses.