Day 7 - 9/14/2010

The second week of the renovation project begins...

Foundation work is still going on.  They finished demo on the old sunroom floor taking out the old glass wall, completed removing the ceramic tile and scraped up the old thinset mortar.  This was quite noisy and drove me to the bedroom to take a conference call.  They also covered up the opening to the kitchen with some cdx plywood.  All of this to prepare it for floating a few inches of concrete to raise it to the same level as the rest of the foundation.

Yep the ugly wallpaper is still in the kitchen.

There is now rebar and forms installed for the foundation and it is pretty much ready for city inspection before the pour.  You can see the old sunroom has been opened up and prepped for the concrete pour as well.

The patio doors are gone and the patio is ready for pouring.

Work has begun on the prep for widening the driveway.  In the area between the fence and driveway, they are laying the drainage pipe that will drain rainwater away from the pool deck.  This replaces drains that were on the old patio.

Drainpipe along the driveway

FedEx and UPS was busy today delivering packages to our house.  We got the two vessel sinks and faucets for the master bathroom and for the kitchen we got the new sink which is huge and the range hood.  Andy opened the glass vessel sinks and in one of the sinks was taped a plastic zip loc baggie.  It appeared to be empty and he was a bit confused.  After closer inspection, he noticed a very small glass object in there.  It looked strangely like a glass sliver.  On closer examination of the sink he noticed that indeed it was chipped along one of the edges.  He contacted the vendor and they will be sending a new sink in the next couple of days.

Andy installed the cabinets in the master bath for his vanity and reinstalled the old countertop temporarily.  We really have to get new countertops ordered this weekend.

Andy's new vanity... Lola can't resist a photo op

Of course, two more AWA's came in.  The first was for bricking the the rear elevation due to the city requirements $$ kaching $$.  The second is for installing interior doors and doing interior window sill and trim work.  Andy was hoping to save some by doing this work himself but there is enough for him to do with the kitchen cabinets, painting, tiling and flooring plus his other projects.  So we decided to have RHD do this... more $$$ kaching $$$.