Neighbors.. I've been fortunate enough to have two of my three neighbors never complain about anything. In fact one is a business so all the less likely to say anything. However on one side is a nice old lady who for better or worse is home all the time. She's been great and really only has a problem when wokers turn up their music so regularly has to ask them to turn it down. This seems like a fight that is something of a losing battle between the many subs who work on a home and those that they employee. But this week i get a call that apparently some other neighbor is growing tired of the construction fence at the front of the property and may complain to the city. The same one that is permitted, required, and meant to protect people from the fact that it is a construction site that you could get injured at. Needless to say, i'm not amused given it's only been a bit over 7 months for what is essentially a new construction. Methinks some people have too much idle times on their hands..
Interior painting continues.. We've been spending about 2 days a week on it. Cleaning up all the drywall texturing dust is time consuming as is it is all over the place and very fine.
The first couple of weeks, we finished cleaning half of the lower floor and managed to paint (primer) a bedroom, short hallway, bathroom, and laundry room. It's strangely fun and satisfying seeing the progress.. It's also physically tiring. I normally hate painting but since it's my own home it's not so bad other then the physical exertion (painting ceilings hurts the neck!). Just throw on some music, take your time, and watch the home progress!
On the next weekends (about 5 hours per day roughly) I painted:
1. corners of living room, closet, power room, hallway
2. cleaned and painted over half of the great room + it's corners
3. painted both front rooms (office and living room), the power room, the closet, hallway, harry potter closet, and staircase ceiling.
Time to finish the staircase and move upstairs!
The exterior porches continue along.. Some guys came out and painstakingly have been adding flashing around the porches and house, sealing all the cracks with some kind of goop & mesh, and sealing the decks with some kind of expensive material that looks like tar but isn't. All to prepare for the installation of the bluestone decks and El Dorado stone vaneer..
The stone vaneer arrived (El Dorado Mountain Ledge Durango) however we decided once seeing it that we don't like the color. After some calls it's going to cost us a 3 week delay and an additional $1200 to change to another color. Uhg..
Worked on this month roughly in order:
More interior painting (primer). First floor complete, staircase started.
Exterior porches - water proofing and prep for the stonework
Exterior skirt and columns - water proofing and prep for the stonework
Interior painting continues.. We've been spending about 2 days a week on it. Cleaning up all the drywall texturing dust is time consuming as is it is all over the place and very fine.
The first couple of weeks, we finished cleaning half of the lower floor and managed to paint (primer) a bedroom, short hallway, bathroom, and laundry room. It's strangely fun and satisfying seeing the progress.. It's also physically tiring. I normally hate painting but since it's my own home it's not so bad other then the physical exertion (painting ceilings hurts the neck!). Just throw on some music, take your time, and watch the home progress!
On the next weekends (about 5 hours per day roughly) I painted:
1. corners of living room, closet, power room, hallway
2. cleaned and painted over half of the great room + it's corners
3. painted both front rooms (office and living room), the power room, the closet, hallway, harry potter closet, and staircase ceiling.
The exterior porches continue along.. Some guys came out and painstakingly have been adding flashing around the porches and house, sealing all the cracks with some kind of goop & mesh, and sealing the decks with some kind of expensive material that looks like tar but isn't. All to prepare for the installation of the bluestone decks and El Dorado stone vaneer..
Moisture barrier material wrapped around the base and porches
Metal flashing and columns
The stone vaneer arrived (El Dorado Mountain Ledge Durango) however we decided once seeing it that we don't like the color. After some calls it's going to cost us a 3 week delay and an additional $1200 to change to another color. Uhg..
El Dorado Mountain Ledge Durango against our exterior colors.. We don't like it.. Too biege/tan and not enough grey
The 6 pallets of stone that will be sent back
columns getting wrapped
you can see some of the flashing around the porch (the metal) and the sealant applied to the seams around the porch deck
close up of the sealant on the seams
front porch
Here you can see the black final layer of water proofing laid down on top of it all
Here you can see where they screwed up a portion of the front by mixing the sealant incorrectly and will need to redo it
Some shots of the concrete applied around the base and columns in preperation for the stone work which will be added next. Also the new basement door and exterior trim. I stayed away from having any windows in it so as not to attract spiders all over it.
First rain literally the day after it was sealed!
Worked on this month roughly in order:
More interior painting (primer). First floor complete, staircase started.
Exterior porches - water proofing and prep for the stonework
Exterior skirt and columns - water proofing and prep for the stonework
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