| Spent some time at the site while Mark did some maintenance on the generator. It was raining and there was nowhere that was dry. |
| I started to take some interior photos so we can watch the progress inside. I realized that very soon the outside of the house would stop changing very much, and the inside would start changing alot. |
| We sent photos of the wrong door to Euroline to show them that the one door was wrong. They informed us that we had an Australian door; a 'down under.' The door was only upside-down. Yeah! We don't have to wait for a new one. The order was right! |
| My sewing room and the kid's bedroom & bath have a roof now. They started working on the trusses along the front of the house and between the house and the garage. |
| The roof is scheduled to be delivered Tuesday and they should start on Wednesday. The framers are gonna work a bit this weekend to make sure that they're done for the roofer in time. |
| The windows were delivered today. They are gorgeous!!! I'm so glad that we didn't skimp on the windows. One of the doors is wrong, but we'll get it fixed. |
| Dave the excavator came to the site today and Mark gave him a piece of his mind. Now, they're doing a great job, we're very happy with their work, we really like Dave & the crew, but they've taken forever to get stuff done. So, they finally got the water main finished (see 1-10-06 entry), but because the water had sat in the pipe since August, when they started, they had to re-flush the system and do some of the work again, and they charged us for it. Um, I don't think so! Things that wouldn't have had to be done if they'd finished them in August is not our problem. So Mark gave Dave a piece of his mind, nicely as always, but we're not paying for it. |
| We spent the day yesterday at Direct Buy. I've found our solution to
the kitchen sink. [warning: long ramblings on follow about details
that most everyone other than Mark & I don't care about, feel free to
skip this one]. OK, so we'd been looking at the Harborview sink from
Kohler. It's a huge sink, which we really liked the idea of in the
kitchen, it's 48" wide! But it would have a 2" high edge, so
you couldn't wipe into the sink, the edge of the sink would sit high on the
counter. Plus, the sexy facet (see house
details) isn't big enough to cover a sink that wide, and we really
didn't want a sprayer, and I'm not really fond of any of the faucets that
have the built-in pull-out sprayer, they all look too modern, none look
vintage enough. We also don't really like the sinks that have the
'apron' front, where the front side of the sink shows, it's supposed to look
vintage, but sinks weren't really like that and I think it looks trendy,
plus the whole transition at the front corners of the
sink/countertop/cabinet corner never looks good. Soooo, after looking
through all 25 plumbing catalogs at Direct Buy, I think I found the sink
that will solve our problems. It would sit undermount, giving us the
ability to wipe the counter into the sink, it has a bit of the sink front
showing, but not the whole thing, and the sink is flat on the sides and
squared off at the front corners so we can make the sink/countertop/cabinet
front corner transition well, AND we can still use the sexy
faucet!!!!!!!! Here's the
new sink. I think we'll get the 36" size. And, at half
the price of the Kohler sink, it leaves more money for the sexy faucet which
is one of the few things we can't get a Direct Buy. Problem
solved! We also found the right set-up for the clawfoot tub. Initially we want the tub to just be a tub, I mean really, everyone is gonna wanna use our shower, but later on, kid grows up, we'll need to have a shower there. We need to figure this out now for plumbing issues (does the water need to come from the floor/low wall/high wall??). So we found a set-up that looks vintage and can be turned into a shower later when we need it to be. The only problem is we can't remember if the tub has three holes on the end (hot, cold, overflow) or just one hole (overflow). The one frickin' thing I didn't take a picture of!!!! We think it has 3, but we can't remember, and we don't want to guess when it comes to plumbing. And the tub is in Chehalis so it's not that easy to get to. Anyway..... |
| We're getting close to having a roof. We picked out the roof material this morning. We'd looked at a few roofs this week to see what the finished roof would look like. We picked the color (gray) and then they had two sizes of the shingles. We liked the look of the larger shingle. On the total order it's only $370 more in materials. But thing shingles are bigger.... wouldn't it make sense that the labor bill would go down (fewer shingles to install since they are bigger) but no!!!!!! Of course not!!!!! Oh well. It never costs less than you think. |
| Our windows are ready to be delivered! They are coming down from Canada (made in Delta) next week. Love our windows! |
| We went to the remodeling show last Saturday evening. It wasn't that great. But then I mentioned that the reason it wasn't that great is that we've seen everything at the show before, multiple times before. As you might imagine, we've been to quite a few home shows in the last couple of years. |
| We went and did some clean-up work at the site on Sunday. The good news is that it was the one day in the last 28 days that didn't rain, it was actually quite nice out. We managed to get all around the site and not get too bogged down in the mud and muck. It actually wasn't as muddy as I thought it was going to be, with as much rain as the Seattle area has had, I would've expected it to be much worse. The drainage system is working fabulously! We swept the driveway, this took a while. All the little rocks on the asphalt were tearing up the surface and making it hard to get traction on the steep driveway. |
| We covered up the dirt piles with plastic, and straw bales. We re-installed the silt fence along the back yard. I swept alot of the water out of the sewing room/kid bedroom, but there was still ALOT left. We also climbed up to the 2nd floor (no stairs yet!) and got to see the fully framed out 2nd floor (bedroom, spa, closet, nursery/office). Got to see the view from my tub, the view from our bedroom. It's amazing. We are still trying to spot the house from down below on the Bothell way side. We were able to see a car wash through the trees from the bedroom. So after we were done, we went to the car wash to clean up (spray off the boots, tools and Mark's coveralls), but we couldn't quite see the house. We'll keep looking! Now that the house is so high, we can see a few other houses just barely through the trees. But you have to look hard! It is so private where we are. We keep looking at all those houses that are getting built right by the road, or 10 ft from each other and still can't believe our luck at finding the land we did. |
| The rest of the watermain is finally installed. They had to shut off the water to the entire neighborhood (sorry everyone!). The 2nd water test was also passing. We had to do a 2nd one since it'd sat for several months without any work. |
| Yes, the news media has been reporting that it's been raining for 24 days straight. That means it's been raining in our living room for 24 days. At least we know that my sewing room is level; the inch of water in my room is perfectly level. |
| They are working on the roof trusses this week. Hopefully it'll get sheeted soon. Mark is back from Canada and I'm sick as a dog. Nasty, nasty stomach flu. |