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By Natalie
Over the weekend we pulled the remaining nails and once again mopped and swept upstairs. It's totally not sexy work, but with the HVAC getting installed, we wanted to get more dust out of the house. Harris also finished up putting boards up around windows (casings) and made them beautiful with his new router. I think he might have put in a light fixture or two and also fixed some other stuff. He was  busy, I was tired and napped and looked for materials (ceiling fans, bath faucets, surrounds for the claw foot tub, etc).

Today!
HVAC - install starts today.
Painting - Trim in the girls room is scraped, sanded, primed, and painted today. \
Termites - Company coming to reinspect to make sure there are not any termites in the house. Will also do the quarterly pest service.
Estimates  - will get first estimate from a GC re: stage 3 work.
Plaster - finishes today.


This week -
Tile - on Wednesday the downstairs bathroom gets tile. We then get to put in a new toilet and install the bathtub.
Estimates - three more estimates, some from GCs, some for other work that is being contemplated.
HPC- our awesome preservation designer takes our case to the Historic Preservation Commisson to decide if we can remove the ahistoric lean to shed on the south wall of the house. Fingers crossed.



Not sure what all Harris is working on at the house this week...electrical maybe? carpentry maybe? fixing the empty old steel pipes upstairs so we can get that tub installed too?


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