Painters save the day, yet again....

Painters save the day, yet again....

March 3rd -- I don't know what I would have done without the wonderful painters.  Yet again, they save the day and my sanity.

The head painter and his crew of two showed up when they said they would at 8:00 am. Awesome.  They helped me drag some construction detritus from the basement to the construction dumpster, which was scheduled for removal today (more on that later...).  Then they got into the work.

First up, the "not-so secret" passageway is no more.  You might remember that there was an original doorway between the main level bedroom and the foyer.  That original doorway now leads to a closet for the guest suite.  This photo is the view from the foyer, where you can see one layer of the dry wall that "plugged up" the passage way.

Here is the view from inside the guest suite, and you can now see into the closet.  

If you are standing in the foyer, this is what you now see.

Soon, the drywall will be taped, mudded and then texture will be applied.  After that, it will be painted and the oak floors will be refinished in the foyer.

The reason why the painters' slogan is "painters with a heart," is that the head painter, who owns the company (and asked to borrow a radio so they could listen to NPR while they worked this morning!), gave me a wonderful surprise.  The painter called upstairs to ask me to meet him in the kitchen.  When I got downstairs he said here is a surprise --  had told his crew to "clean up" meaning that the guys vacuumed the granite and papered the floors to protect them before they started on caulking the trim the carpenters put down yesterday and assorted touch ups.

As a result of the painters empathy and  their cleaning efforts, every thing looks so much better today compared to yesterday.

Starting with the master bathroom

They painted the face fronts of the chest of drawers in the master bedroom.

They cleaned up and did some touch up on the guest suite bathroom

 
 They also cleaned off the counter tops in the laundry room, because this Saturday an appliance moving company will come to move the washer and dryer from the basement upstairs to the laundry room

 The kitchen is really starting to look great, and here you can see the cleaned granite counter tops and the painted shelves in the spice rack that supports the breakfast bar.  They cleaned all the kitchen counter tops and removed the plastic that was covering the double ovens.

The painters also started to repair the drywall in the upper level sitting room that leads to the master bedroom suite.  On the other side of this wall is the bathroom I have been using (and will soon move out of once the master bathroom is cleaned).  This dry wall repair is no simple feat.  As you can see the new heating flue is between the sitting room and bathroom wall, and surrounding the flue is lath and plaster, so there is no framing to match a dry wall patch.  The solution is to cover this entire wall with new sheet rock.

With the "not-so secret" passage way closed up, it will be time for me to remove the plastic and tarp barrier that separated the original living room / temporary kitchen from the dining room and rest of the house.  Take a good look at these photos, because this barrier will be removed, especially so the new refrigerator can be moved into the kitchen on Saturday.

Here is the view of the tarp/plastic barrier from inside the original living room / temporary kitchen, with my old refrigerator, which I cannot wait to be removed!






















 The glass door for the green house was delivered today.  Here it sits on the deck awaiting the completion of the green house.  

Two other things of note happened today.  First, the painter asked if he could come into the room I've been living in because he had some dry wall patching to do before it gets painted, once I can move out of it and into the master bedroom.  The expression on his face was priceless when I explained to him that this was also the room I have been sleeping in.  Clearly, my short stature has worked to my advantage.  Oh, did I mention that the painter is over 6' tall, so there would be no way he could ever sleep in this room.

Second, remember the dumpster was supposed to be pulled today.  After 5:00 pm, the contractor sent me a text that read, "Dumpster gone?"

To which I replied, "Nope."  So, there is something to look forward to tomorrow.

I live in a world that,  for the most part, when someone says something will happen ("The dumpster will be pulled on Wednesday.  Then, the dumpster will be pulled on Thursday."), it generally happens. This is not the world of construction.  A world I soon hope to be leaving or that will be leaving me.