The back yard was starting to look like the city dump. They haven’t had a dumpster here so the trash piled up in the back yard. We asked them to remove it because the dogs were sniffing the old mcdonalds bags, it was getting dangerously near some plants, and it was ugly!
Archive for April, 2006
Back Yard Clean Up
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Stucco Second Coat
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Back View of the House
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006Now we can get a glimpse of what the house will look like from the back yard.
Gutter Gaps
Friday, April 21st, 2006
The First Floor Bid
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Stucco First Coat
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Conduits for Home Electronics
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Taping the Drywall
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Mesh for Stucco
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Garage Door 3
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Master Bath Sticker
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
And this is some seal the put around this window and the telescoping doors.
Garage Door 2
Friday, April 14th, 2006
Master Window Primed and Installed.
Friday, April 14th, 2006
Master Bath Window In Place
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Garage Door 1
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Bathroom window Finally Arrives!
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Benches Oiled
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006I went to Lowe’s last night and bought a bunch of oils and stains and cloths, etc. I ended up using olive oil from the kitchen, a tip I found on the internet.
I slathered the benches with the olive oil. It took a while to soak in, but finally did. They look awesome!
There They Are!
Monday, April 10th, 2006Not too shabby. And they are almost too heavy to pick up. He even fixed the picnic table.
Making Our Benches
Friday, April 7th, 2006They started on our benches the next day. Unbelievably, they were also making a copy of our bench near the hot tub. And not for us.
For our benches.
And for his other bench I guess I wont let him know I know about.
Good Grief
Thursday, April 6th, 2006I was not around at all yesterday and I was gone this morning. So when I get back today, I go over to check on them and what do I see? A beautiful bench made out of ironwood.
“What is this for?,” I ask.
“[Foreman]”
So they have been using this house as a work shop for other projects. That is absurd. I call the contractor, and he says he doesn’t know why but that it might be because they want to keep the equipment here for when the master bath window finally comes. (It still hasn’t come).
Minutes later, the foreman calls and apologizes, and says he willl make it up to me.
I say “Is is a nice bench.”
“You want one?”
“I want two.”
He wanted 600 dollars for them, but I refused. I agreed to pay him $300 for the pair if they built the garage door now without a day off. The garage door was something that can be built at any time since nothing needed to be done first, it was its own little section of the project. With all these delays — we were mentioning to them that they could get that out of the way, but now I got them to agree to do it.
They did get in the door frames.
