The 12-14 weeks of renovation time has come and gone.
Ah the joys of renovation! We are SO ready to reclaim our house and it seems to hitting lots of little snags as the end moves further and further away. Here's a list of what still needs to be completed and their delays:
1) A few electrical tweaks - delayed since the electrician has been super unresponsive to our contractor and us over the last few weeks. Status: Mike just emailed to let me know they actually showed up.
2) Upstairs and stair floor refinishing. This is the major project standing in between us living in one room downstairs and being able to move back into our upstairs. Was scheduled to begin yesterday (6/19) but the floor guy's sander was broken. Status: sander is getting repaired and they're (hopefully) going to start on Monday. If it takes 2 days as planned, we can then move back upstairs Friday night and after (72 hours for the poly to dry).
3) Bathroom shower door. Man those suckers are expensive! It took me some time to swallow the pain of the price and go for it. Currently, we're going ghetto style with our old shower curtain taped to our tile with painters tape. At least we can shower at home! Status: The order is in and it should be ready for installation the week of July 7th.
4) Tile backsplash in kitchen\second coat of paint. The tile we partially picked out because it was in stocked and available in 2 days is, of course, back ordered. The painter will finish up the paint once that's installed to clean up anything that might happen with the grout. Status: tile scheduled to be in July 8th and we'll have to schedule tile installation when we have it in hand.
5) Door hardware for upstairs. We found it online for a lot less expensive than our local specialty hardware place but are paying the price in time. You wouldn't believe how unbelievably difficult it is to try and pry open our bathroom pocket door without hardware! Status: Scheduled to ship to us June 27th.
6) Exterior work - siding and back stairs. We need siding on the moved windows and on our new mudroom as well as stairs (currently using the old ones that were moved over to the new door location). Status: Supposedly all materials are in and our site manager will be here early next week to complete this stuff.
7) Hinges from cabinet company for one cabinet. Status - who the heck knows when we'll get these because, as far as my experience shows, the kitchen company has a bunch of non communicative bumbling idiots that work for them.
So, nothing major left to be done but lots of minor things that will keep me nuts for at least another few weeks since people will still be in and out of my house constantly.
The ONLY room we can actually check off the list now is the mudroom. Thanks to my newly handy hubby, our carpet floor tiles are in and this room is DONE. Wahoo!
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6/18/08
Home Renovations
Here are a few of the latest pictures of our renovation project. It's down to the details now and we're more anxious than ever to be able to reclaim our house. Hopefully we'll be able to wake up without contractors in our house within a few weeks!
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