Day 199 - Glass!

Our glass arrived today. I'd love to tell you it all went well but that would would be untrue unfortunately. 

It did go well in the basement - the glass and the mirror went just fine and looks good. 

Upstairs went less well. First the glass for the window into the cut out in the light well was the wrong size and they didn't have the tool with them to adjust it on the spot. So they have to come back. 

Then it got really fun. After complaining that the wall onto which the door hinge was not strong enough to support it, they called me upstairs to show me where the tiles cracked under the weight. 

So that will need to be fixed. How exactly I'm not sure. At the very least, remove the cracked tiles and if possible put something stronger in behind like plywood before re-tiling. I don't know if we have any more of those tiles or when that work can be done we are not starting to use our new shower tomorrow like I had hoped :(

Stay tuned. 

The finished product, looks nice from a distance!

See the semi-circle crack running up on either side of the hinge

In other news, our roof still leaks and the siding guy didn't show up Thursday when he said he was going to and has been unavailable via phone for the past week. Super thrilled about that since it is now November. 

Sigh.

Day 194 - minor news

There hasn't been much to report over the last couple weeks. We continue to SLOWLY unpack and get settled in. 

We will be getting our shower doors this weekend and got our siding this morning which will be installed over the next couple of weeks. All 1500 lbs of it!! Thank goodness the neighbours had some delivered at the same time so we could store it in their driveway, not sure where the 30 foot long pieces would have gone otherwise. 

The sliding doors for our bedroom finally came and look pretty darn good. 

Day 180 - more lights

Not a ton to report, slowing unpacking and crossing the finishing pieces off the list. Notably, we got the lights that we ordered for the 'Great Room' and our bedroom. Here are some shots of them going up.

Our shower glass is ordered, as is the siding so hopefully we'll have those done in the coming weeks as well.