A flurry of activity.....

A flurry of activity....

March 28th -- Whoa, for about 15 minutes near the end of the day the framers, painter, tile setter and plumber were all working on various parts of the house simultaneously.   A new record.

At 8:00am the framing carpenter crew arrived.  Their task today was to put siding and trim on the greenhouse; finish the railing off the rear-entry back porch; finish trim on the front porch; put siding and the decking on the deck off the master bedroom, and put lattice trim on the decks....they were able to complete about 85% of this work.

Here is the new railing and lattice trim on the back porch, rear-entry to the house.

Here is the detail trim work on the newly decked front porch that will be painted when the rest of the exterior painting is completed...probably before the end of April.

The deck off the master bedroom is a bit tricky because it is over "living space" (the gathering room) which means there are various codes that have to be followed, especially weather-proofing.  Below you can see that the siding was installed, that will be painted, and a TREX deck was installed.  The painters will need to do some further caulk work and painting here.

The greenhouse now has siding on it and you can also see the skylights on the roof.  A gutter will be installed eventually.

Here is the front door of the greenhouse with a glass panel next to it and siding around it.  

The plumber was also here and installed two hose bibs...this one shown in this photo is outside of the greenhouse on the south side of the house, and the second hose bib is on the north side of the house.

The second bathroom on the upper-level is still a work in progress, and even that room is coming along.  The drywall work is done and the tile setter laid the tile today.  This tile looks like wood planks but it is really ceramic tile.  The tile setter will remove the little white spacers after the tile adhesive has dried and  tomorrow he returns to apply the grout.  Both of these photos show the tile in the bathroom, proper.

These photos show the same tile that has been set in the closet that is adjacent to the bathroom.

The painter texted that he wanted to stop by at the end of the day to pick up some materials and do a bit of touch up. 

 He explained that because the tile was set only today (it was supposed to be set on Tuesday) and will be grouted tomorrow, that he won't be able to work on sanding and texturing the walls this weekend.  

My plan this weekend is to begin an initial level of clean up, starting  in the basement.  I want to attack the dust and dirt with a brand new shop vac as I begin to systematically remove the first layer of dust and dirt before the whole-house cleaning process begins.

The framing carpenters will need to come back to complete the lattice trim work.  The plumber will return to set the plumbing fixtures in the second bathroom on the upper level.  The finish carpenters have baseboard trim, hardware, and assorted fixtures to install, including an adjustable shelving system in the greenhouse where I hope to be starting plants from seeds sometime in the near future.

A flurry of activity that gets this old house closer to the completion of this project.