No more lock box....
May 25th -- The finish carpenter arrived at 8:30 am and started attacking the items on the punch list. Many of these are small items (e.g., installing door stops; adjusting sticking doors) and not worthy of photos. By the end of the day only three items remained that require tools that were not on site.
The second upstairs bathroom is now completed and clean with another piece of trim installed as well as small glass shelf under the medicine cabinet. With time, I will need to do some work on the oak vanity and cabinet with some sanding and refinishing.
Much of his time was spent on installing new door locks -- no small feat since the original doors of the house, like the front door below (and the door to the garage), are much thinner than most wooden doors today. As a result, some of the doors had to be "built up" so that the locking mechanisms would work. The build up will be painted during the exterior touch ups.
and the rear-entry door and door to the greenhouse.
The best thing about having all of these door locks installed is that I very happily returned the lock box to the contractor!!!
And the greenhouse shelving standards have been installed on the south wall (see the shelves below). A masonry drill is needed to install the shelving system on the north wall of the greenhouse, which is the brick wall of the house. That will wait for another day this coming week.
While the finish carpenter was going through the punch list, I continued to work on small projects. First, was to create a small platform with pavers for the lawn mower. Before the afternoon showers, I was able to start the lawn mower for the first time of the season with only two pulls! I ran the mower over the remaining lawn in the front of the house after spending over an hour raking up miscellaneous bits of construction scraps (e.g., nails, screws, bits of concrete wood, roofing materials, etc) that I did not want to go airborne after being run over by the mower. It was amazing to see what I collected. Fortunately, I was able to mow the lawn with no schrapnel incidents.
The contractor and fabricator repeatedly told me to save all the left over tile and grout. So, a second little project was to finally move all the boxes of left over tile stuff and other left over materials (e.g., hardwood floor planks) to the crawl space beneath the gathering room addition. Boxes of tile are not light.
When the old refrigerator was moved to the basement for the future micro brewing center, the doors were in the wrong orientation. Fortunately, this model was made with reversible doors, which I got around to reversing for a third project. The refrigerator needs to be cleaned, and the saga of the refrigerator debacle should be over by June 3rd -- look for a blog post on the resolution of this issue then.
By the end of the day, the friends who gave me their old couches dropped by to see how they looked and brought a lovely bunch of sun flowers. Although all the vases are somewhere in the garage waiting to be unpacked, I did find a glass jar that did the trick as a temporary vase.
Although the finish carpenter was going to drop by today -- Memorial Day -- to finish up, he just called and had to do something for his employer. He will try to come by tomorrow to finish up.
At this point, what remains is:
- installing the shelving standards on the north wall of the greenhouse
- installing a piece of flashing near the threshold of the rear-entry door
- clearing the floor drain in the basement
- connecting the gas cooktop in the basement
- installing a shelf in the master bathroom
- the contractor will repair two small leaks in the greenhouse before I can put down the liner floor and pea gravel
- final interior and exterior paint touch ups
- June 3rd refrigerator resolution
- order and install carpet runner on the main staircase and order and install carpet treads on the staircase that leads to the basement.
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