Today was an exciting day, but a frustrating day. Let's start with the frustration. I had an early morning conversation with the foreman who wasn't aware the basement was to be finished out. I am not sure where the disconnect came on this one. We are not finishing out the bathroom and the kitchenette/bar area, but everything else is to be finished. For the next year it will be Daniel's bedroom. Of course we want heating and air down there. Did you think we were going to drywall the area and then close it up and leave it? I just don't understand why he doesn't understand. I am glad I was home to have this conversation before the drywall went up.
On the less frustrating side, I had barely exited my bedroom this morning before I was struck by the clanging of scaffolding and the humming of the mortar machine. The brick masons had arrived. This is probably the one part of the project that I have anticipated the most. It gives an almost-finished look to a project that is still a month or more away from being finished. Regardless, it is looking more like a house being built instead of a house being destroyed. One side of the house is bricked with two more to go on Thursday.
All of the demolition has been completed as well. Now I can enter our garage and see 75-feet straight through to the other side of the existing house. A wall will be put up tomorrow to limit this extended view. Of course when walls go up, that means drywall mud and drywall dust as soon to follow. All of the workers tend to wrap things up at 3:30, and that is the time my new Shop-Vac goes to work. Things will only get worse over the next three or four days once the drywall is installed Thursday and the three-day ritual of mudding-sanding-mudding-sanding-mudding-and-sanding begins. With a holiday and a weekend factored in, who knows how long that process will actually take.
Bracing for a busy day on Thursday...
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