Meet my new friend
He is a rescue dinosaur and I am happy to report that he is recovering nicely after being buried the backyard for an unknown period of time (he is still pretty broken up about it so he is not ready to talk about it just yet :).
So what exciting news can I share with everybody today? It feels like I go non stop from the second I open my eyes until I close them at night but I often look back at the day and have a hard time feeling like I accomplished anything significant :( Things are coming along, I know that and I can see the progress it just feels slow. But enough whining! The major things that are underway right now are mostly outside, progress inside is waiting on a very slow drywaller, he is making progress but it is slow going. It looks to me like is mostly done the family room and the kitchen apart from the ceiling. He says he is going to work this weekend and be done so we will see. The other job that is happening inside is the tile, he has been a busy putting down Hardy board so there is not really anything exciting to see there, today he will hopefully get some stone down, that will be exciting! Here are a couple of pictures of the tile sitting in the garage.
There are also different sizes but they are in boxes. Funny story from the tile guy he was at the warehouse picking everything up and it was before the store opens so the sales guy was operating the fork lift (never a good idea) and he accidentally went forward instead of backward and knocked out a huge shelf of material which fell into an outside wall with windows, it knocked the wall and the windows out... apparently it was so bad that an ambulance that was driving by rushed to the scene because they thought the building had exploded. In the end nobody was hurt but it sounds like the tile for this job is going to cost the company a whole lot more than they are going to make... I hope they have insurance.
The roofers are chugging away on things they have about half off the roof off after three solid days of work, they have filled the most enormous garbage bin I have ever seen. I could literally drive the mini van into the bin and have a bunch of room left over.
This is not a great picture as the truck looks bigger since it is closer but you can see that the bin is higher than the truck. At any rate the bin was changed out today because it was overflowing. I don't think they will get to putting new roof on this week but probably starting on Monday. Here are some pictures of our new white roof in the mean time.
So the other major activity right now is focused around the pool, and the news of the day yesterday was that the pool liner has now arrived in Comox, hurray!!! Dallas (the pool guy... I will have to get a picture tomorrow) is going to start on that ASAP, they have to clean up all of the concrete etc. in the pool before they can put it in, but that will start tomorrow (Thursday). The new cover for the pool is all cut in now and they concrete guy was here forming things up today so they can come and repair the damage as well as adding a new walkway to the pool house (this was where we found my new friend... I am going to have to come up with a name for him!). Try not to let these pictures frighten you but here you can see what is going on out at the pool.
This is a good picture you can see the roof and almost all of the pool work that is going on.
The other big thing that happened today was I finally got the remains of the previous tile and subfloor all sanded off the floor, hurray!!! It looks so much better and they tile and hardwood guy are both happy with the surface now so that is a huge relief! I don't have a picture of that as it is pretty boring, maybe I will post one later.
Last but not least here is a picture of the on demand water heater all plumbed in, tomorrow (Thursday) is start up, woo hoo!!!
He is a rescue dinosaur and I am happy to report that he is recovering nicely after being buried the backyard for an unknown period of time (he is still pretty broken up about it so he is not ready to talk about it just yet :).
So what exciting news can I share with everybody today? It feels like I go non stop from the second I open my eyes until I close them at night but I often look back at the day and have a hard time feeling like I accomplished anything significant :( Things are coming along, I know that and I can see the progress it just feels slow. But enough whining! The major things that are underway right now are mostly outside, progress inside is waiting on a very slow drywaller, he is making progress but it is slow going. It looks to me like is mostly done the family room and the kitchen apart from the ceiling. He says he is going to work this weekend and be done so we will see. The other job that is happening inside is the tile, he has been a busy putting down Hardy board so there is not really anything exciting to see there, today he will hopefully get some stone down, that will be exciting! Here are a couple of pictures of the tile sitting in the garage.
The roofers are chugging away on things they have about half off the roof off after three solid days of work, they have filled the most enormous garbage bin I have ever seen. I could literally drive the mini van into the bin and have a bunch of room left over.
This is not a great picture as the truck looks bigger since it is closer but you can see that the bin is higher than the truck. At any rate the bin was changed out today because it was overflowing. I don't think they will get to putting new roof on this week but probably starting on Monday. Here are some pictures of our new white roof in the mean time.
You can also see the safety tape that we put up around the pool in this picture, they didn't want anybody falling in!
So the other major activity right now is focused around the pool, and the news of the day yesterday was that the pool liner has now arrived in Comox, hurray!!! Dallas (the pool guy... I will have to get a picture tomorrow) is going to start on that ASAP, they have to clean up all of the concrete etc. in the pool before they can put it in, but that will start tomorrow (Thursday). The new cover for the pool is all cut in now and they concrete guy was here forming things up today so they can come and repair the damage as well as adding a new walkway to the pool house (this was where we found my new friend... I am going to have to come up with a name for him!). Try not to let these pictures frighten you but here you can see what is going on out at the pool.
In this pic you can see the new cover housing in the ground and the new pathway from the main pool area to the pool house on the left.
The stairs to no where??? This used to be grass in the middle of a bunch of concrete around the pool, we are replacing it with concrete and fixing the stairs with a very small pad at the top of the stairs until we decide what we want to do with the space above.
Just another picture of the house and pool, you can see some of the track for the cover in the bottom right of the picture along with a drain that we had to move. You can also see the new lights in the pool they are the two holes about two feet below the lip of the pool.
The other big thing that happened today was I finally got the remains of the previous tile and subfloor all sanded off the floor, hurray!!! It looks so much better and they tile and hardwood guy are both happy with the surface now so that is a huge relief! I don't have a picture of that as it is pretty boring, maybe I will post one later.
Last but not least here is a picture of the on demand water heater all plumbed in, tomorrow (Thursday) is start up, woo hoo!!!
I fell asleep typing this last night so sorry for the delay, I have to get back at it, more updates later today!!! :)
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