New, Stronger, Door. Interior door hardware.

 The Vent Hood is now in place, but the glass piece which really makes it look sharp is in storage to protect it from careless workers... recommended by the two that installed it.

Its nice to have the door hardware installed because that also means the doors are in place too.  We wanted levers rather than round nobs because as we get older, those will be easier to use.

There's a new door installed to replace the leaky one.  This one is clearly an upgrade.  Note on the photo to the left, there's an additional latch at the top of the jam.  There's also one at the bottom of the jam.  Those plus a very different threshold are supposed to solve the leak problem.  Unfortunately there's no real rain in the forecast so we'll have to wait a while to know for sure.

Appliances are scheduled for delivery this week too!

Concrete and Baseboards!

Does she look happy?  Something has happened!

We can see get a sense of  how the yard gets laid out now.

And baseboards will get painted to match the walls.

What I don't show is the new door.  Which was delivered and sitting on the driveway.  Yup, we're still not finished with the leak -- though optimistic the new door will solve the issue.

It's been a while... Things moving slowly.

Yes, it's been a while since the last post.  Things have been moving slowly.   We had an issue with the 3rd floor North door, the one that leads to a cantilevered porch, the route to the observatory deck. There has been rain intrusion.  Initially we thought it was because the painters had removed the weather stripping on the door to paint it and not replaced it.  After replacing the weather stripping, it wasn't until the next big rain we knew we still had a problem.   Everyone tells us leaks are hard to find.  Water can travel a distance from the entrance point to where ever it decides to show itself.  It has been a journey, with 4 different attempts to plug the leak, and I think it was actually a series of leaks.

 So, once we feel confident the leak(s) have been stopped, drywall and insulation in the impacted area (basically the second floor below the leak) will be replaced, and of course painted.







In the mean-time, the forms are in for the hardscape (driveway and sidewalks).   The weather didn't cooperate over the past two weeks for this to get completed.  We had rain (reference the first paragraph) and then mud. The hardscape folks were held up completing the jobs on their list in front of ours.  We are finally having warm (70s+) sunny weather and there is no rain in the immediate forecast so we should have concrete filling the forms this week.

The most spectacular change is with the floors.  Until now, they've been covered with dirt, grime, drywall texture and spare materials.   Last week a crew came down from Austin (apparently these are the best folks for this task) and sanded the floors, stained them, and put down the finish.  So all the floors on the second and third floor look like this!