Monday, December 13, 2010
No contact with Isaak today. It was a travel day for us coming back from Florida
The tech from Pure AVS was also back today to run one more cable to our home office.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Isaak is right on time, but we were dragging a little! Always nice to sleep in your own bed after traveling; especially since it was so cold this morning. Isaak and I sit and chat as I have my breakfast. I truly jinxed him when I talked about his helper last week. The new helper has not returned. So Issak is back looking for another helper. Three tentative interviews today and not one of them show up. Hard to believe with this time of year and the economy that people do not want to work hard! Instead...they hardly want to work!
Isaak tells me how time consuming it is when you are trying to run and snake wires by yourself. Sounds like a lot of trips up and down the basement stairs.
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| The infinity staircase! |
On top of that there is disappointing news today about our windows. They have not arrived yet. We were expecting them to be delivered tomorrow but that is not the case. The French door required an additional 2 week lead time because we ordered special laminated glass. Because of the locking mechanism on these doors, we cannot install a deadbolt. So we opted for laminated glass that will stay together if broken. The extra security is important to us since there was an attempt to break in our house during the summer.
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| Note the broken glass pane below the door knob. The double keyed dead bolt and an alert neighbor helped to foil the attempted burglary. |
The window company is consolidating their deliveries; therefore even though the windows are ready, we have to wait until the door is completed before they will ship. It was also explained to me that the window manufacturer was closed for the entire week of Thanksgiving, which adds another week to production. Now looking at a calendar it appears that if the windows do not arrive by the 22nd we will have to wait until January 2011. Brrrr!
We come home to find new lighting and switches at the bottom of our staircase, new electrical switches for the foyer and front porch, and new wiring to all the living room receptacles.
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| Oooh! Ahhh! ... Switches! How exciting! |
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| Breaking through the baseboard plaster to get to the wires. |
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| The three white wires are for low voltage picture frame lights |
Isaak calls later in the evening to say he will most likely head back to the hospital in the morning. No problem with us. Family first always! It is only a kitchen; not the end of the world! The kitchen can wait. I wish all people carried the same sentiment.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Isaak texts me in the morning that he is headed back to the hospital to see his dad. Another day of tests and waiting; which is physically and emotionally draining. We keep our fingers crossed and keep his dad and family in our prayers. BTW…Isaak is just one half of Mester & Son, Inc.; his dad Nachum is the other half! We have the good fortune of working with Mester & Son for over 11 years now! He has been teasing me about our kitchen for the last 8 years, so I jokingly sent Nachum a message to stop lying around and get back to work! We wish him well and a speedy recovery!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Another day of wiring! It’s not all that exciting. Isaak and I head upstairs to the bedrooms to review all the electrical receptacles and switches. His plan is to work upstairs on Friday. Remember we are having the entire house re-wired.
When we get home we are excited with the addition of lights to both our main staircase and our basement staircase. Our staircases are completely illuminated, along with 3-way switches at the top and bottom of each run. We are both like little kids…”look at me as I turn the light on here…and then turn it off from here” Yes it takes very little to make us happy at times!
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| Now we can see going up & down the stairs. |
All of our Hansgrohe plumbing fixtures for the kitchen and powder room shower arrived today too! It’s feels like Christmas!
Friday, December 17, 2010
It is an early morning for us today. I know Isaak is planning on working in the master bedroom. So Wayne & I wake up early so we can move the furniture away from the walls and pick up the lurking dust bunnies. Everything that is light enough gets piled onto the bed.
Today we received our doorbell! Very cool retro look.
Isaak got most of the master bedroom completed today. Rewiring is like working a gigantic twisted string puzzle that is hidden behind walls. It would be so much easier if everything was gutted to the bare studs, but that would have pushed us further beyond our budget. It would certainly be easier having two people to do the rewiring.
So at the end of Week 6 here are the accomplishments:
- All demolition is completed.
- All windows are framed.
- The Powder Room is framed.
- A new subfloor has been installed in the kitchen.
- All the lighting in the kitchen has been installed and wired.
- All the lighting for the dining area has been installed and wired.
- All the lighting for the living room & foyer has been installed and wired.
- All the receptacles for the powder room, kitchen, dining area, back porch, living room, foyer, hallways and master bedroom have been installed and/or rewired.
- All the audio visual wiring has been installed for current use and the things we plan to do down the road.
This is a huge amount work to be checked off the list! If this was just a remodel of a kitchen we would be ready to install cabinetry by now, pending the completed rough inspections by the township. So in the scope of things we are right on schedule, with the exception of the windows.
Either way the triumph of PROGRESS CONTINUES!!
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