Posted in renovations..

The crazy pace is slowing some now.  The weekend was a time of painting as we primed a couple rooms and gave two coats of paint to the kitchen, livingroom and hallway.  It took us a few hours on Friday and then 13 more on Saturday.  Sunday we changed some electrical plugs and prepared for today. 

Our flooring installer was early this morning so we were glad that we got up earlier than we thought we needed to.  He was almost an hour early!  He installed subfloor in the remaining areas except the bathroom because he needs to have the sink and toilet out to do it there.  Then the prep was done.. which involves using a levelling material to fill the spaces between subfloor pieces and allowing that to dry.  It was a lot slower drying than last time so no actual flooring was put in today.  But tomorrow there will be some sanding of the filler stuff and then the flooring will go in.  So, Dennis spent part of the afternoon cutting the flooring while we put a fan on to help with the drying. 

Tomorrow, as I said, the flooring will be completely installed by the end of the day.  I'm thrilled about that because it will be so nice to have a decent floor under my feet.  We will also have the plumber come to put shut-off valves on the bathroom sink and install the tub spout.  It's one that needs to be threaded or it would have been done already.  Our bathroom guy will then come and install the new toilet and sink after the flooring is completed.  Then we wait....

Today we also had the countertops measured for.  The guy came pretty much right on time and within a short time had made a template for the cutting of the corian.  He told us it could take 1-3 weeks... and most likely closer to 3 so we have some waiting to do.  The waiting was not quite so hard when there was a lot that still needed doing.  Now that it's mostly waiting.. and waiting.. it's a little more difficult. 

I'm starting to really long for a completed house.  This process has really gone quite smoothly for us and I'm grateful for that.  We've had few delays and things were actually moved up about 4 weeks from the original dates we were given at the beginning of the whole thing back in early March.  Tomorrow I think I will start to decide where to put things in the kitchen.  I have a few things I've put in the cupboards mainly to get them out of the way but I'm looking forward to figuring it all out so I might as well do some of that if I can do it without being in the way of our tradespeople.  If not, then that will be my Wednesday afternoon project.  :) 

Dee..