Week in Review - January 20 through January 26

Hi again!  It's been a while since I last updated, sorry about that!  I had to travel for work the week of January 20 and upon returning home, immediately went back into renovation mode and just haven't had the time...And, it felt like there wasn't much to say, but as it turns out - there is!

So, let's review.

Monday, the Drywall dudes finished the final touches on the drywall and ceiling, took the plastic down, put the lights and fans and air duct vents back up, put the doors back on their hinges.  So that's all done.  Yay!!!

Tuesday, the tile and grout and stuff got delivered taking up some of the last precious square feet of space left in the garage, but it is still very exciting!!

Also on Tuesday, the nice Bagster people came and picked up two more Bagsters-o-debris - see pics below!  Still fascinating to me that they have a machine specifically made for this one thing.

An artistic black and white rendering...

On Wednesday, it was determined that the tile project wouldn't start until Monday the 27th because to start it at this point in the week would mean we'd have the house torn up for yet another weekend, so...we wait.  (Patience is a virtue I hear.)

Thursday, we had a bonus project happen.  Our heat pump power control/defrost board died and the whole pump was covered in ice when the Mister got up in the morning.  So he got to have the heating and air people come out and fix that.  Which is fine, we need heat this winter - good Lord!

Friday, I got home (and after being where it didn't get above freezing for lots of the week, the mid-40s felt kinda good for about 5 minutes and then I was cold again, or still.) and that afternoon, the counter guy came to make the template for the quartz.  In my imagination, I had pictured a guy with a measuring tape and a pencil and a sketch book or something.  Nope.  Way cooler than that.  He used this computerized laser level on a tripod thing and set up sensors on the corners of the cabinets and it took pictures and also did a CAD drawing of the counters to be fabricated.  He then used a measuring tape and a pencil and a sketch book to double check everything (thank you for being extra sure!).  It was a very fascinating process to watch.  Can't wait to see the final product!

 The little block things with the bright green on them are the sensors that the laser thing used to make the points on the drawing.

Saturday, number one niece was in town, so we did some shopping at some favorite stores - Lowes (where they are starting to know us by name), Target, and finally HomeGoods where I got the most amazing deal on the coolest stools EVER that will go under the new peninsula - but you'll have to wait to see those...Oh, and a 15 cubic yard dumpster got delivered.  That was interesting to watch too:

Truck showed up with the smaller dumpster (ours) inside of a larger one, so he had to get the smaller dumpster out...

 Then he put the smaller one back on the truck and put it in our driveway.

Then Sunday.  Oh Sunday, day of rest...not this week!  We had to finish moving everything out of the front of the house so the tile could start on Monday.  Sleeper sofa, washer, dryer, refrige - you know, the easy stuff.  Thankfully a good friend was eager to help and he came and spent several hours helping move the heavy stuff, wrap it in plastic, stash it in the last one square inch in the garage and on the back porch and so on.  But, they got it done!  And then they got to take out the toilet from the hall bath that is also being tiled (failed to mention this in the Scope Creep post, but it should have been included)...here's the only photo from all of this fun:

 

We got by with a little help from our friend!!

Next up:  Tile!!!