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Lots of crews doing lots of stuff

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By Natalie
We have, at most, 21 days to get the house ready for us to live in. To this end....

Thursday :
Accent Hardwood did the rough sand in suite and kitchen.





Here is Madeline feeling the floor in the suite













Laid 70% of new dining room floor.

Madeline being a silly monster ballet girl


Then David Glick, Rob, and Alvin prepped, primed, and painted the remaining two wood rooms we found downstairs.



While wandering around I saw this little bit of graffiti. Wonder who Black Chicken Billy (or perhaps Boy) was/is.




Today, Friday Accent Hardwood is there finishing the floor in the dining room. Century Slate is there fixing the flat roof leak and patching the two remaining holes in the slate roof at the ridge.

On Saturday Harris will be laying the subfloor in that giant hole in the kitchen while I take Madeline to the Farmer's Market and Cameron's birthday party. While she's at the party, I'm going to sears to pick up the appliances. Then after the party we all load up the truck and his car and head to Charlotte to buy the cabinets for the ktichen. We get back and Harris puts those together at some point and installs them.

Brown Brothers comes on Wednesday to move supply lines under the sink and will call me at some point to put the gas supply line at the washer/dryer so that we can wash/dry clothes.  I need to call the counter people and find out how much it will cost, when they can be installed, and what our local options are.








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