Remodel: Day Sixteen

A week has passed since I checked in here. For the most part, I have been busy adjusting to life without the internet. This isn't a voluntary status, either, rather one imposed upon us. On Saturday, our laptops and sundry wi-fi-dependent devices stopped connecting. Century Link was unable to provide a diagnosis and offered to send a technician to our house, but the first available appointment was for the following Saturday, February 7th. Seriously? Six days out? Okay, then. Since then I have been making regular semi-daily trips to Dunn Brothers to check and send email. And, just today, I spent half an hour on hold with Century Link in an attempt to bump up our service call, and I was successful! So, tomorrow, from 8:15-12:15, I will wait patiently for the repair.

While posting entries has been thwarted, there hasn't actually been much to report. It feels like the progress has been slow, but the truth is in the pictures. Follow along!

Concrete floor added to shower

The remainder of last week and all of this week, so far, has been about the drywall. After the drywall was installed on the ceiling, on the fireplace, and in the bathroom, all the seams were taped and the screwheads covered in mud.
 

Fireplace chimney edged by metal

Metal edging on the shed dorrmer

On Monday of this week, Larry left a message that the bathroom was on schedule but that the ceiling was  taking longer. You can see why in the photos. The vault is quite an expanse. The next step here is to skim coat the drywall, then sand it in preparation for priming and painting.

Skim coat

Monolithic

Boys' hall

The bathroom is coming along nicely. The painter primed and painted all walls, including the vivid blue-green accent wall. I'll post a photo, but since there is no light, the color is far from accurate.

The color is vivid even if not accurate

John is frustrated by the plastic. It has evoked a claustrophobic feeling in all of us. So I wrote my first note on Larry's legal pad and asked when it might be coming down. His response was that the old plastic could come down as soon as the sanding was done on Friday, but that new plastic would go up for painting on Monday. A reprieve would be just fine.

Nancy on the plastic-shrouded peninsula

In other news, our vintage light fixture should be rewired by Friday. According to the schedule, tiling should happen this week so maybe tomorrow?