Day 158 - BIG blog post

Oh boy did we have a lot of activity at the house today, very exciting. At one point in the day we had 3 electricians, 2 painters, 4 counter guys and a tiler on site. The place was buzzing. 

The painters are painting, more on that to come, so let's start with the counters, both kitchen and upstairs bathroom. Looks very good!

Took 4 guys to carry the island

Ensuite counter

Next let's talk lighting. Electricians were on site installing our fixtures. This required some running around last night and again this morning to get said fixtures (they were supposed to come Thursday and we were supposed to purchase ages ago). To my surprise I also needed to buy LED compatible dimmer switches since they didn't have any with them. Nor did they have a USB plug for the kitchen. Was not expecting that $300 outlay but OK. 

And unfortunately our marquee lighting fixture for the new family room, the Slamp, has not arrived yet so we will have to get someone else in to install that in the coming days. 

The house really looks like a house now that it has lights. Go figure. 

Basement play room

Basement hallway

Basement spare room

Powder room

Closets

Ensuite scones, mirror cabinets still to be installed

Dominic the tiler was back to start on the ensuite shower, the wall is a continuation of the floor tile, with a yet to be installed strip of other tiles running vertically down on the right hand side. It'll be a few more days before he's back to finish this off. 

Three piece of bad news recently just so you don't everything is going perfectly. 

1. We mistakenly failed to order the cover plate for the ensuite shower, that is going to take 2 weeks to come so the completion of that is delayed. Oops.

2. The carpet for the basement is on back order and isn't available until after we move back in on the 20th. So that means we have to keep stuff out of the basement or at least out of the main area until that comes in. 

3. Our siding installation, set for this coming Monday, is delayed. It turns out we need to do a 2 part order rather than everything together. Like cabinets that we measured and ordered only after the drywall was installed, the siding folks suggest we install the corner pieces of siding first and take exact measurements of the long pieces rather than order longer ones and trim on site. I'm sure that is the correct thing to do, just wish we had determined it earlier in the conversations with the manufacturer and installer so we didn't end up losing 2-3 weeks. I'm tired of looking at the Typar. 

Finally, we have a move back date of Sept 19th, a week Saturday, excited but not looking forward to the actual process of moving...