Mid-week update

As of today, we have 15 days to finish.

We got the flooring down in the shower/laundry/closet and put the tub and tub surround in place. We then closed the door from the main house for good and covered it over with paneling on the inside (left over paneling from elsewhere). It really looks like a big closet with a bathtub in it now! Very cool. We still have to finish sheet rocking, mudding and taping in there, though, plus the plumber needs to hook up the tub.

In the kitchen, we removed the carpet from the portion that will have vinyl and pulled all the staples, then put the leveling stuff on last night. That had to dry overnight, so tonight we will be able to put the vinyl in, then set the cabinets, put on the countertop, and maybe even put in the sink. That is a lot for one night, but we’ll see.

The problem area is getting the fan in the shower room, because the wall we wanted to put it through is about a foot thick and many, many layers. The hole saw won’t go through it. We can’t go through the outside wall because that is brick. So that leaves the roof, but there are multiple ceilings to go through to get out that way. I’m letting Dad try to think of a solution!

We also still need to have the electrical inspected before we can finish closing up the walls, which delays the sheet rocking in several places. I don’t want to move anything else over there until we are past the really dusty phase of sanding the sheet rock, so the moving is at a stand still.

But I have my garage sale tomorrow and the next day, so I’ll be busy with that for a while!

So, I went and took some pictures. They show the back of the building with my window boxes and cool table top on the wall, the kitchen as it looks today,  a couple shots of the new bath/laundry/closet, then a shot of the beautiful curtain over my mirrors in the fitness studio (the flooring you see is the piece to go in the kitchen), and finally our hammock that I finally hung today (we’ve had it since Dad was at Jenny-O.)