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This week felt like a slow week, but that's what all the books say -- the finishing stage is excruciating, because it goes very slowly. So I guess, then, that we're doing great! I was at a conference Sunday through Wednesday, so we're skipping straight ahead to what I found on Thursday. The upstairs trim is now done: There are exciting looking measurements and sketches written on the wall where the countertop will go: And a surface planer arrived that Mr. Bunkport will use to clean up the wood that we're recycling into the countertop & bathroom furniture: A large framing board was cut out of the threshold of the bathroom door, leaving nothing further to trip over: And the backer board for the tile backsplash was installed: I still don't know why the bathroom was mysteriously boarded up last week. I guess whoever they put in there is finally out of timeout. Friday A little more exterior trim was added on Friday: And they began to clean up that recycled wood: This...

Lots of exciting things got done this week. There's still a to-do list a mile long, but we're very close to at least having the kitchen back to normal. In addition to having normal meal preparation again,  this also means that a ton of stuff currently stored in the dining room also gets to return to its rightful home in the kitchen, making life just generally better. Monday Sheetrock was finished on Monday. Also, the bottom outside step was replaced and the whole staircase was bolted to the concrete: Safety Inspector Pickles signed off on the work. Tuesday I'm not sure why, but the top step was replaced on Tuesday, and a railing along the landing was replaced. This also passed Pickles' careful inspection. The cement was poured for the footers: The work to level the kitchen floor was done. It's a combination of special board and some kind of concrete-like substance: Pickles, in her zeal to inspect the work, stepped right where she wasn't supposed to: Oops. Wednes...

Last week I said that the next steps were "sheetrock, installing the tub, & removing the old tile in the kitchen." I'm excited to report that those things all happened this week! Monday Sheetrock went up downstairs: And on the back wall in the garage, making it a firewall: The bathroom got sheetrock, as well, and the tub was also installed: The purple sheet rock is moisture-resistant. The spot where there is no sheetrock is where a tile backsplash will be installed. The front part of the platform the tub sits in -- made of wood recycled from other parts of the house -- will be added closer to the finish of the project, when Mr. Bunkport is doing all his fun carpentry work. The bathroom vent was connected up to the great outdoors: The electrician also put in the new outlet for the washer & dryer: One step closer to laundry! That writing on the wall behind the copper pipe was there when they removed the interior wood to install the pipe. It's someone's subtr...

More milestones this week! Monday Good progress on exterior trim: And the rough electrical work passed inspection: Meanwhile, the back neighbor isn't living in his house while it's under construction, & his rose bush is growing out of control, intruding into our yard over the top of the fence. It doesn't really belong here, but it's the only pretty spot in this construction site of a yard, so I've let it be: Tuesday Trim completed! Stairs reattached! Wednesday The beginnings of the platform the tub will sit in: The hardware for the sliding French doors was installed:  Mr. Bunkport also spent time meeting with some neighbors who are dissatisfied with the way the south wall was rebuilt, explaining to them why it had to be done that way. Thursday The rough framing passed inspection, and we got the ok to install the sheetrock: Friday Insulation made out of recycled denim started going in: As well as some standard insulation in the bathroom: Saturday They came in on ...