Lots going on today

I met the contractor at 10 this morning instead of 8, which was a nice break. When I got to the house, the electrician was already there. He's been really great - he just had some time in his schedule and came by to work on stuff. I got a second estimate on termite treatment (the first was during closing). I still want to get one more. I have another company scheduled that does alternative treatments as well as the chemical treatments. We want the termites treated before we move in so we don't have to go through that while trying to live there.

I then came back to the apartment and spent a few hours on the phone just doing various things. One of the things I did was call the city to pick up the shopping cart someone left in front of our house. I found out we will have at least some outlets ready to use when we move in. Yay! I was thinking we would have to run a long extension cord to the temporary power outside. We are still looking good (translated: not impossible) to meet our move in target of Wed May 24.

This was one of the tasks the contractor worked on today. This area of the floor had a lot of water damage and needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, I had already had the plumbing done when I hired the general contractor so the GC had to work around the plumbing.



He cut a piece of plywood to the exact size of the missing floor and drilled holes to accomodate all the plumbing. This required a lot of precise measuring. He cut the plywood in half so that each opening for plumbing was cut in half (fortnately all the plumbing was in the wall so it was in a straight line). Then he slid the plywood into place on either side of the wall so the two halves of plywood met and surrounded each plumbing opening. (This piece had to be cut in half on this side so it would fit. The other half went in next).



This is the drywall going up on the wall between the bathroom and the kitchen. It's been open for some time.



And finally the bath and kitchen are two separate rooms again!