Day 31

Oct 27

The cabinets have arrived! Holy cow!!! How many did we order?!

Jake future door - waiting to be installed.

Our wonderful corner bathtub for the master bath....

...and its future home being built.

New closet door's been installed! - The only one so far.

Day 30

Oct 26

The start of another week.....did not start too well. Found out we have a 3" clean-out for the sewer piping - we're required to have a 4" pipe. Long story short - we're going to have to rip up the driveway and install a new pipe - our 2nd big whammy in this remodel (the first being the requirement for an upgraded electrical panel).

The new doors are in! (I love this picture - check out the window, it looks slanted - the frame in front of it is actually leaning, but the camera angle made it straight, thus making the windows look slanted).

Jake went with me to the house today.

Jake's in one of our future cabinet areas in the office.

More drywall work.

Check out how nice and wide open that hallway is now!

Day 29 - End of Week 6

Oct 23 (Grandpa's Birthday!!)

Not a lot to share today as the drywall process takes several days to complete. You can see they started doing some of the taping - next week they'll continue the process, putting on the mud and evening out the cracks, etc.

Next week will be a busy week! Doors come in on Monday, cabinets on Tuesday, carpet guy comes on Tuesday to measure the rooms, some sewer inspection work, etc...

Below - our nice big master closet.

Day 28

Oct 22

Yay! All the drywall is up!

Standing by the kids bath tub looking out.

That space there will hold our hallway cabinet - just outside the 1/2 bath (and nicely hidden, as you cannot see it from the front of the house when looking down the hallway.

Master bedroom

Master bath shower!

Where the corner tub will go!

Day 27

Oct 21st

VERY exciting day today. First, we got confirmation that our cabinets will be delivered on TUESDAY!! This means Garth will be able to put them in and we can get the granite guys to come out and take measurements. We also got confirmation today that our tile is ready for pick up!! Now we need to just order the carpeting and shower glass and all the major purchases will be done! Whawhoooo!

Below you'll see that Garth raised the flooring in the hallway to be flush with the other floors.

The drywall went up for where we used to have a hallway closet.

They sealed in the old master closet door.

One of the workers is putting paper on the kids tub, so it doesn't get scratched while they work in that area. They will be building out the tile seat area soon for the bath.

Standing in the master bath shower looking out where the tub and toilet will be.

Looking from the tub back to the shower. I suspect they are going to make some real progress on finishing up the drywall.

Day 26

Oct 20th

Not too much going on today. Insulation is going in everywhere. Here's another view of the master bathroom - looking at the shower.

It's a little bit of a bummer as this room used to have vaulted ceilings and tons of light from all the windows we used to have. However, our old master bedroom was even darker, so we're trying to put it all in perspective. :-) It will look lighter once we get the ceilings in and painted.

Looking at the wall and door to the master bath.

Day 25

Oct 19th

Monday - the start of another week - and a slow start at that. It rained again today, so we are REALLY happy that the roof was completed on Friday. Garth also came over on Sunday to put the plastic bubbles on the sun tunnels, so that we didn't get rain in the house (he called us, we didn't call him!).

Unfortunately we had a picky inspector today, so it turns out that after his "3 HOUR" inspection, Garth didn't pass - the inspector wanted a few other things completed before he passed us. Garth will make the small modifications tomorrow morning and the inspector will come out again in the afternoon. Lost some progress though, so hopefully Garth and the team will be able to crank again after passing.

Although there were a number of smaller things done in the house today, the only major item worthy of a picture was the removal of the stucco around the circuit breaker box. PG&E came out to review their wires (to make sure we had enough juice coming to the house) and ok'd our intentions to update the box to 200AMPs. It's currently at 100AMPs, so we need more power to use our new A/C. Now our electrician will work with PG&E next week to put in a more powerful box.

As there were no images from the house of any worthiness today - I thought I'd add some pictures taken over the weekend. Here are "my girls" on the deck of our apt.

The kids playing soccer in the grassy area of the apt complex (taken from our deck).

The kids room in the apt.

Our lovely apt. This is pretty much it. The kids room is behind the wall on the left. Our bedroom is to the right - and that's it! 2 bedroom, 2 bath. It works for now, but we're happy it's going to be a short stay.

We do have a washer and dryer in the apt (small room at the end of the kitchen), so that was a nice addition!

Day 24 - End of Week 5

Friday, Oct 16th

We have a new roof! Amazing! Wednesday the old roof was still on, Thursday I came home to see the roofing paper applied, Friday - all done, the roof is on!

Quick view from the back side.

Notice a little more light in that hallway now? The sun tunnel is not yet completely installed, but you can see how it's going to help light up that hallway.

Here you can see the sun tunnel hole on the left of the roof. It's going to look like a little pimple when the plastic top is installed on Monday. For now, it's a gaping hole into our house!!

Here's what it looks like from the inside. It's located right in front of the kids bathroom door.

Here's a shot looking down our nice long and now wider hallway (standing outside the master bedroom door).

Looking to my left from the same spot, you see the entrance to the master bedroom.

Here's a shot of our 2nd sun tunnel, which is located in our master bathroom (I'm standing in the tub area for this image).

Next week Garth will start the the insulation and drywalling! The house is going to go through its next major transformation while that is being worked. I suspect things will slow down pretty significantly after that, as we'll be waiting on cabinets and countertops. Then I think it kicks into gear again as the tiling, painting, hardwood floors and carpeting gets put in, closing with the finishing touches (faucets, lighting, etc.). Another 6+ weeks, but its moving!

Day 23

Oct 15th

Not a lot of exciting stuff happening today other than the work on the roof. As you will shortly see, we are getting a new roof in just 2 DAYS!!! The house across the street got a new roof just a few months ago, it took them 1.5 weeks to put it on - our roofers are doing it in 2 days!

As I mentioned yesterday, take a look at the shingles, cause that was the last day you were going to see them. When I came home today, this is what a saw, the house was completely covered with the new roofing paper. Not a single shingle was left behind - literally! I walked around the house - they did such a good job in clean-up, I could not find pieces of shingle anywhere.

Just to show you how impressive this is actually, Garth had the inspector come you twice in one day. First they had to completely remove the old roof. Then the inspector comes out to take a look for dry-rout and other issues (Garth had already repaired a small amount of dry-rout in one corner). They then had to put up wood paneling all around (as we when from a shake roof to asphalt, which required paneling), and then the roofing paper. Finally, the inspector comes out again to review. The did this all IN 1 DAY!