Big Picture: Where are we?
Inside, Progressing on trim work. Painting is on ‘pause’ until we get some more trim up. Tilework is also paused.
Outside, Less snow shoveling this week vs last week.
Goals for Week of 24 Jan
- Complete tile work on second floor guest bathroom. {incomplete – see below}
- Complete stairwells – cleaning and sanding (Team Grey) {in progress}
Accomplishments
- n/a (trying to only put things here that are an actual “accomplishment”, not just “worked on stuff”, which is below)
Corp Update
- Refinance work is coming along. We received the appraisal for Orange Ave, which more than supported our requested loan. We have cleared underwriting.
- Mom headed back to Seattle. Sorry to see her go, but she promises she’ll come back in March.
Mintwood St
- Demolition: Work is complete. See blog post
- Roofing. {no changes from 4 Oct. Roofing is complete}
- Carpenters: {no change since Jan 3 2022} Framers came out this week to adjust some door heights on the third floor. When we planned to reuse the old doors, the heights were somewhat mismatched. (in a hallway with 5 doors, we had 4 different door heights). Since we ordered all new doors this week, they’ll be the same height. Work was completed quickly and efficiently.
- Windows: (no change since May 16)
- Insulation {all insulation complete as of 27 December} Insulated the basement rim joist this week. It has made the basement noticeably warmer.
- HVAC {no change from Dec 6} Third floor furnace has been connected and is running. Need to get the plumbers to connect the humidifier on at least the basement furnace (not sure if they connected the 3rd floor unit).
- Plumbers: No change this week.
- Electrical: {No change from Jan 3} We had the electrician out this week to look into the short in the master bedroom. Problem has been resolved. He was also highly complimentary of our electrical work. I guess “not fast, but neat” is preferable to “fast and sloppy” – but I knew that already.
- Masonry {no change from 1 Nov} Glen came and worked with the plaster guys to remove the mantle in the dining room. Kathryn has done an amazing job of cleaning it (photo above). We will aim to reinstall on Nov 8th.
- Plaster: {no change from Dec 6} Per notes above, the plaster & drywall work is complete. All equipment is out of the building.
- Painting: We put the painting on “pause” for a few weeks. It was just too hard shuffling trim every day so that James could paint, but also trying not to make so much dust that end up all over whatever he was painting.
- Finish Work
- Tile work on the second floor bathroom is on hold. I screwed up cutting the Schluter piece, and the new one doesn’t come in until this week, so the shower is “on hold”. We did lay down the floor, so we made “some” progress.
- Trim work is our focus now. I’ve started casing the large openings (ones without doors and/or bi-fold doors). As of Sunday, five of the six openings had their “jambs” installed. for those windows.
Mom has been hard at work stripping the 2/3 stairs (from 2nd floor to 3rd floor). We got them all scraped, but there’s a lot of sanding to do. I’ll have Jaspar focus on that next week.
Ordered balusters from a shop in New York that will replicate the existing units. Mailed them a sample. They say they’re 4 weeks out. - Interior doors should be ready/ delivered ~Feb 6th…
- Installed the vanity in the master bathroom, and got the rough plumbing completed. I had to order one more trim kit (the finished part of the faucet that you see). The price has gone from $85 on 5/19/2021 to $190 on 1/29/2022. Holy crap.
- Interior doors were all ordered this week. They’re saying 5 weeks, but so far they’ve beaten each date they’ve set for me, so I’m hoping the doors will be done before the end of January. The price includes delivery from Youngstown, OH.
- Proposal came in from Chris (RetiredWoodworker) for a fireplace mantle in the 3rd floor bedroom. It was a good bit more than I expected, so we may do this in house instead.
- Design: Kathryn is making solid progress on the various light fixtures for the hallways and upper bedrooms. Feels good to have this getting taken care of. Thanks, Love. We keep looking for the right pieces for the LR and DR
- Design board is available here, though we made some slight changes after this board was produced.
Next Steps
- Trim as much as humanly possible.
- Realistic goal: Get all 6 openings cased.
- Stretch goal: on 3rd floor, start filling in the baseboard where it hits the casing
- Strip both flights of stairs and have them sanded to be “paint ready”
Pearl St.
- Rich has given me contact info for the inspector, but inspector isn’t very responsive. It is clearly going to take some work to get him out to close out this permit.
Next Steps
- Paint door to Zoe’s room.
- Finalize electrical inspection, close building permit.
Goals for Week of 31 Jan
- Complete stairwells – stripping and sanding
- Complete casing for all 6 opening
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