taping the cabinets

The hardwood guys started staining the floors today. Brian and his crew had taped a lot of the baseboards and walls. I figured the hardwood guys would tape up the kitchen cabinets-- but they had no such plan. It drives me crazy how none of the trades worry about the others work. I spent the last two hours (now midnight) taping up the bottom of the cabinets so they won't get stain on them.

I'm still waiting on the front steps to be waterproofed, but Reo didn't show up anyway.

A leak!

The hardwood crew from (Votan from Lehnert Construction) finished up sanding the hardwood today. The plumbers have been making good progress as well, but when they turned the water on it started pouring out of a light fixtures in the playroom closet. Ooos. Luckily the hardwood guys caught it immediately and soaked it up with sawdust. The plumber reassembled the valve in the master shower and it works now. Any scratch, water, dent, etc. at this stage is irritating. We're looking forward to getting it all cleaned up and protected!

Painters are finishing up the outside trim.

Next week we'll need to get the drywallers in to do touch up before the painters, finish electrical and plumbing and countertops and work on getting the appliances installed.

Here's a picture of the front.

Hardwood floors in progress.

The hardwood floors are now in the process of being filled, sanded, stained and finished (one coat now, and one final coat at the last minute)

The masonry guys did the fireplace and stove back splash this weekend. They had to redo the hearth today because they did it wrong, but it looks good now. This was a big worry when we saw it was wrong Sunday morning until it was fixed today.

A lot of the plumbing has been completed (despite several reminders they still put on the wrong colored trip levers on the toilets so they'll have to redo that).

We would have liked to have moved the island a few inches, but now that it is all assembled that would be nearly impossible-- in the future that would be something to confirm at time of installation. We would have also moved the claw foot tub a couple inches, but I suspect that is too late because the plumbing is all in.

The stone on the outside is almost done. Painters got a lot of the outside paint work done today. A lot of the electrical outlets are trimmed out and a lot of lights are up, although not too much else can happen inside this week.

Meet the steel guy tomorrow to go over the window well and outside railings.