Remodel week 8-Tuesday

Today was a very busy day. The electrician arrived a little before 8 AM. He did all the wiring on the deck, put in the holders for the can lights in the ceiling and secured the electrical boxes on the supports for when the fan and lights are installed. The old ones weren't secured in any way!

Shortly after he arrived the trim carpenter got here to install shoe molding upstairs and put the hardware on the vanities. Before he could do that Danny had to get here to install the drawers into the cabinets. These two guys have known each other since grade school so there is always the usual banter between them. So for a while we had 3 upstairs and then it became 4 as Lynn the floor guy arrived to start cleaning the floors. Outside was the electrician and the 4 man crew working on the deck.

 Studying the job at hand. It was very easy to take out that support wrapped in black. It wasn't attached to anything! The weight of the roof was keeping it in place. Turns out the other one wasn't either. My comment was I was happy we didn't live in an earthquake area!

 That is one very long level he is using.

 First cedar post is in place and it isn't going anywhere-well secured with lag bolts at the bottom and nails above!

 They are making makeshift braces for a 2 x 4 that will go between the braces and then also supported in the middle. This is for when they begin to cut out the support beam that is in place.

 He is up there cutting out a section with a saws-all

 Galen intently looking on

 One 4 foot section ready to come down

 More of it gone

Most of it is gone now.  It was going on 11 and we decided we would take off for a while

 What it looked like before we left. No big beam going across.

 When we got home again the new beam (2 back to back) were in place and all the 2 x 4's gone except at the far end. They didn't like either of the 2 remaining cedar posts. More will come tomorrow.

 Upstairs the shoe molding is down . We need to do something by the steps as they had to use a lot of float on the sub-floor which raised the wood. A different molding will go there to give it the finished look.

 Lynn will be back tomorrow to finish cleaning floors and do some work downstairs as well. But things are starting to come together.

 We have decided that we should have started the outside work earlier in July. Rain last night and another brief but hard shower today!

That is it for this installment!