The Winter Solstice, or what we know as the first day of winter, occurred today. Factually it is the shortest day of the year, when the sun appears in the sky less than any of the other 364 days of the year. The workers didn't seem to notice that their workday may have been shortened by a couple of minutes since last Friday as they worked feverishly on the addition. They continue to struggle to remove the current front porch before starting on the new one. With the rotten wood apparent to the naked eye, caused by years of an inadequate 18-inch section of gutter that did nothing more than collect water and spill it over the edge, one would think it would not have taken but a real strong wind to rip it off. I guess that is one of the pluses of having a well-built house from the 1950s. Hopefully the porch demolition will momentously turn into porch construction on Tuesday. My contractor, knowing the in-laws will be here starting tomorrow, has asked permission to work continue working through mid-day on Christmas Eve so they can try to complete the porch. Who can argue with that?
Monday also brought two of the three mid-construction inspectors to the site. All three need to sign-off on electrical, plumbing, and HVAC before the interior work can continue...primarily installing the drywall. No problems with the HVAC inspection, but there was a slight snafu with the plumbing inspector. Apparently he has decided he does not like the water pipes being on an exterior wall, so they had to scramble to drywall and put up a thin faux wall so there is officially "a wall" between the exterior wall and the plumbing. Go figure. Hopefully the plumbing inspector will be back today and will bring along the electrical inspector to approve all the wiring so we can move along to the next stage.
Oh, and just as soon as we had figured out all the lighting fixtures, we go and change our mind on the bathroom sconces. We have sent the lighting sales rep a list of four lights we like better and hope that he can track down one of them on Tuesday so we can place our order before Christmas. How come lights and bedding and vanities and tools seem to be the only things we are getting for Christmas this year?
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