Our bathroom that we've been renovating, though, is almost done. All we've got left to do is to get Summit to finish some plastering, paint the ceilings & a bit of walls, and install the mirror. It's looking good!
The Summit progress really was too minimal to mention, I would say. We did get a schedule for the upcoming weeks, which appears to be pretty aggressive compared to the relative progress of the past weeks, so we'll see how they go against it. The are also expecting to be finished with the upstairs work in a couple of weeks, which means that they will be able to remove the staircase and the scaffolding. As a result, Andy and I realized that we better get our butts in gear and get the eaves painted while we've got the scaffolding in place...much cheaper than paying someone to erect more at a later date! So, that was most of our Saturday and Sunday...sanding, primering, and painting eaves for the parts of the house that are accessible with the scaffolding. A couple of shots of our handiwork below....you can see along the front corner of the house where we haven't yet painted over the hideous terracotta colour along the front of the house...that's for another weekend :)
I mentioned that Summit's work was pretty minimal this week. They did manage to move our "privacy" door from the hallway to near the staircase. This is in preparation for their move downstairs, and it also will allow them to finish the ceiling and cornicing work in the hallway. The cleaning, though, was not done by Summit. Andy had to do that in preparation for our guy coming in on Tuesday to lay battens on the lower floor of the living area to raise it to the same level as the kitchen...so it doesn't look so bad in the photos below!
Hopefully next week will have some real progress to show you if Summit completes what they say they will complete. The following week will be the kitchen cabinet installation and air conditioning installation...yay!!! Just in time for the heat of the summer!
Oh yeah...and one thing I almost forgot. You wouldn't BELIEVE the "pet" we found living in our backyard. We walked down behind the garage on Sunday while moving some roofing tiles from the top of the driveway to store in the back of the garden. There were several large weeds growing back there, so I decided to bend down and pull them...and nearly grabbed hold of this guy...he's quite camouflaged, but it's a bob-tail lizard, and he's at least 12in long, with a head almost as wide as my fist. These guys supposedly aren't aggressive, but they have really strong jaws and will bite and not let go. Needless to say...I nearly wet my pants and was left completely freaked out for at least a minute...then I had to run and get the camera :)
Have a good week guys! More updates to come soon :)
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