At this point in construction, many trades have wrapped up the majority of tasks that would keep them continuously busy. Because of that, going forward we will most likely get a contractor per day on site to finish the remaining items / doing punchlist items. Hopefully this process won’t slow us down too much, but it helps us make sure there is enough to do for a contractor to be on site and so that we’re not paying someone to simply stand around.
Over the past two weeks, we did make some exiting progress. First, the exterior front stairs have the limestone lintels installed. Next we had our 1st floor appliances delivered to site. This allowed us to bring our carpenter back so that he could precisely cut the correct openings into the cabinet paneling to install the double oven, microwave, etc. Once the panel was cut out for the double oven, we learned that the 220V disconnect installed by our electrician doesn’t leave enough room for our oven to be correctly installed. We’ll have to have our electrician back on site to correct this before we can install our oven. Besides the oven, our contractors were able to install the built-in microwave, range, dishwasher, and laundry units in the basement.
While on site, our carpenter detailed the dining room woodwork, which included adding quarter round trim to the wooden beams, window trim and wall trim. Other then making the woodwork look more elegant, the drywall takes less volume then the old plaster walls did which in the case of the old woodwork which we kept meant a large gap between the woodwork and the new wall, the trim covers these gaps. Our carpenter also leveled out our back stairwell concrete wall, allowing us to install drywall in preparation for our painter to start work on the unit. Finally, in anticipation of our painter, we rolled out protective covering through out the unit so that in the following week they can get started!
IT STARTED ON SAWYER 