Renovations Day Two

Boxes of flooring.  Heavier than they look.

We have been letting the doggies hang out in the bedroom while we work.  It seems like Jacks enjoys the drywall dust more than Caele.

We didn't think today would be too hard.  After all, yesterday all of the carpet came up.  It seemed like our part was mostly done.  Not so.  For starters, we remembered at about 4:30 yesterday afternoon that we needed to move our flooring from the 405 condo to the 602 condo. How could we forget about this stuff?  We had relocated our kitchen table to the middle of the living room and kitchen chairs were stacked in the guest room because all of this stuff was piled at the top of our landing, making our house feel like a storage space, but with more pet hair. 

But I digress when I eat apples . . .  unfortunately the parking lot at 405 is being repaved which means that street parking is at a premium - we were afraid to move our cars for fear of not being able to park again.  So this morning the first order of business was to move the flooring over to 602.  This turned out to be a very sweaty and arduous task.  I will not need to lift weights this week.  Here's what we moved:

19 boxes of hardwood flooring at approx. 75 lb. each = 1,425 lb.

10 buckets floor application "goop" at 70 lb. each = 700 lb.

stray shoe mouldings, bridges, etc. = 30 lb.

Total lbs. moved = 2,155

Now keep in mind that we currently live on the third floor, so we had to schlep all of this stuff down to street level and into the XTerra, then drive 4 blocks to 602, where we then had to schlep it up to the second floor.   As a result, we are very tired.  I wish that our day could have ended there.   Next on the agenda were some renegotiations on the electrical work to be done. We are much happier now.  

When we left the condo we decided to treat ourselves to some ice cream - conveniently located on the way to our cabinet and countertop guy.  With ice cream in our bellies, we narrowed down our countertop selections.  We should have prices in a few days, which will determine our final decision.  We really liked cambria (quartz) a lot better than granite, and our second runner-up is a material called Staron.  Stay tuned.

From cabinets we headed to Lowe's.  On our list was 2 ceiling fans (master bedroom and living room), lighting for under the cabinets, lighting for over the kitchen island, and some other stuff that I realized I forgot on the way home.  Guess I'll pick those things up later.

Tomorrow there won't be much action at 602 - the next step is the electrical work.  We did decide to delay floor installation until the 15th which will give plenty of time to do the electrical and put up the new sheet rock, as well as hopefully paint the kitchen/living room/office.  We looked at colors last night, and are thinking of a warm beige, cream trim, and some red to accent in the kitchen area.

And by the way, today the contractors removed the dropped ceiling from the former dining room/soon-to-be office area.  I took picts but accidentally erased them, so I'll have to get some more the next time I'm there.  We also learned that one of our contractors is quite musical, and used to play in a band.  He opened up for Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.  Chris is thinking of getting together with him to form a Merle Haggard/Waylon Jennings cover band.

This post is a little rambling.  I'm sweaty, dirty, and tired.  But this is fun, and my boyfriend is a manly-man so all is well.