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Words I Never Thought I’d Be Saying
December 11, 2007 |
Wonder of all wonders, plumbing work should be starting on House #2 today. Hallelujah. And the heavens open up and sunbeams come shooting through.
This is just the first stage (capping off unnecessary gas lines under the house, pulling all the gas lines in rooms, the floor furnace, and the wall heater in the bathroom, as well as updating all valves in the existing bathroom and running a line for a showerhead), so no huge celebrations yet, but it feels mighty good to finally be tackling that stuff, after so many difficulties on the plumbing front.
Lots of progress over the last few days, as the unfinished workshop room is all demoed out and has a new subfloor in, and is basically ready for the HVAC vent to go in, a little re-routing of electrical, then it can be sheetrocked, painted, and stamped with the big “Done” stamp.
The new laundry room will be framed in today, with the subfloor finished yesterday, so it’ll be ready for rough plumbing and electrical.
I’ve been knocking out assorted odd jobs the last few days, installing some new light fixtures, painting here and there, fetching supplies to keep the framing moving along. I’m off on a poker reporting trip from December 12th-19th, so I’ve been pushing to get things wrapped up as far as all the framing and major structural stuff. Looks like we’ll make it, with much of the remaining stuff pretty straightforward and not really requiring me around to make major decisions, so I’ll be leaving my contractor a list of smaller things to knock out when he has some extra time here and there between jobs.
We’re visiting my folks in Tennessee for Christmas, then off to Dallas the week after that, so likely not much action on House #2 after today until around New Year’s. I’m getting a bit worn down so I don’t hate that too much, and I should still be roughly on target as far as wrapping up work by January 15th and getting the thing listed.
Everything’s still a go as far as the sale of House #1, although we’re not going to close today as originally planned. I never expected it to happen that quickly so no huge shock there, and all signs point towards closing at the end of the week. I’m going to set up my wife with temprorary power of attorney before I take off so she can sign for me at closing, which is kind of a headache but easier (and about the same cost) as trying to next-day-air documents back and forth from the Bellagio.
So likely not much on the posting front here for the next week, but I’ll probably poke my head in here and there, especially if House #1 gets sold as planned.
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Can you take some pics of house #1 - the finished project? I’d like to compare it with the before pics. :)
I secon Bill’s request. I love before and after pics!