Larry the Tile Guy also started working today on the bathrooms. He's another seasoned veteran from this area that comes highly recommended. We bought all the materials and he's providing the labor and expertise.....especially when it comes to the showers. Today, he set the concrete floors for two showers. Larry will be around for at least a couple of weeks to complete his work.
Tom installed 5/16" pine wainscot to the walls in our master bath. Tomorrow morning, I'll be priming and painting what he installed. His guys installed more pine car siding - this time on the ceiling of the screened porch.
I spent most of the day on the internet and on the phone. Paying invoices and ordering more stuff. All our major appliances are now ordered. We also ordered all our bathroom faucets. The ol' bank account and the plastic are SSSSSmokin'.
We are battling paint issues with our trim and windows. We're painting all our interior trim and windows the same white as the kitchen cabinets......White Duck is the color. I worked hard all weekend to start painting the trim and have a lot of the trim already done. Lots more to go, though. Brenda started painting the interior of our Eagle windows.
We do NOT like the trim paint (an interior acrylic latex) that Sherwin Williams sold us. It will not lay down nicely on the wood interior surfaces of our windows. As it dries it separates. I'm having similar results painting the trim, too. Just not as bad as the with the windows. But, I've had to put 2 coats of paint on the pre-primed trim pieces. And you shouldn't have to do 2 coats over primer.
The verdict appears to be that all the windows and sliders will have to be primed before they will accept this paint. SW says that primer doesn't do it's job after 30 days. It goes bad or becomes "contaminated". Most all of windows and doors have been around here for 2 months now. We've asked for some guidance from Eagle but it appears that we have a lot of work in front of us with a paint brush in hand.
This week we'll be getting an LP tank set in place to supply gas to our fireplace. I ordered that today. I've also queued up the local guy who installs DISH TV service. He's an acquaintance from my days with the Iowa Telecommunications User Group. He'll be coming by some evening this week to set a dish on the roof and run the coax into the house. We'll try to get coax run for our cell phone repeater, too. The antenna for that will go on the roof, too.
You have waaay more ambition than I do, but you're saving on the greenbacks. My approach would put even more stress on the bank account and plastic but I'd have more time for fishing :-)
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