We have air conditioning! It's what separates us from the Apes. Well, that and blogging.
Betsy has been hard at work marshaling all the subcontractors and boy has she made progress!
Libby Twins finished up the air today and the interior temperature has dropped from 93 degrees to a cool 76. The system is drawing all kinds of humidity out of the house and the environment at The Ruins should really improve over the coming days.
The electrician came today and gave us an expensive, but good, quote for everything we want to get done. This will get the house up to code and give us plenty of light in the driveway, front walk, garage and foyer. We will also have proper ceiling fan stub outs for the Family Room and Living Room, plus add 7 hardwired smoke detectors to the house.
The plumber also starts tomorrow and will re plumb the new washer and dryer area in the garage. We are also getting the plumbing for a slop sink near the washing machine.
And the garage demolition is finished! All the drywall, studs, bad electrical wiring, bad tile, smelly shower room and worse smelling unducted laundry room are gone! Can't wait to see the job finished.
George Arias (A&B Painting & Remodeling, 407-963-7395) started smoothing the interior walls today. The process will include mudding about 25 gallons of drywall compound onto the walls, sanding it, texturing the walls with Orange Peel texture, priming, and finally painting the walls. Ceilings are also being painted.
Betsy also found time to go to Sherwin Williams and get interior and exterior paint samples. We are honing in on our color choices. We have picked out our tile for the kitchen, family room and bathrooms. And the rugs for the four bedrooms. Now we await carpet samples for the Living, Dining and Master bedroom. We have had quite a bit of help on this (thanks Dawson's Decorating Center - 407-851-2270!), and are doing colors we never would have picked on our own. But I think they are going to wind up being very very nice.
With all the progress we made today we are (finally) really getting excited about the house. It is fun to see a plan come together.
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