Serious Progress - Day 197

Tuesday May 11th, Day 197 is a flurry of activity at Project 713. There are three separate crews getting work done today. The Masons are hard at work filling the mortar in between the large slabs of slate for the walkway up to the porch from the driveway.

The electricians are inside installing lighting fixtures, chandeliers, the hot water heater and other electrical switches and outlets. I went back over later in the day after they were finished, to check out the work inside.

The painters are back to finish the primer for the western side and rear of the house. I also had a short discussion with the foreman to make sure we're on the same page about the trim color for the wooden soffitt braces and the window frames and mullions.

I'm pretty sure we got things squared away, but I guess we'll know when they start on those tomorrow. :-(

I also made it over to Grace's school to watch a few minutes of her field day during my lunch break.

Looked like they were having a blast, especially when they got to run through the sprinkler a few times.

It was a nice respite and then back to work. I went back a mere 6 hours later and THIS had happened! The front porch was painted and the electrician installed the porch lights and chandelier.

And then they were able to get to this as well. You can see they finished the backside since the first visit.

And I ended up taking so many pictures that I don't want to post them all on this page, so I'll save them for tomorrow. But here's a Preview!

Yup, that's right. Grace is standing in front of a new door where there used to be a window that leads into the sun room behind the fireplace. Sorry about the badly lit photography. As a former journalist, I should be better than that with the backlighting. Oh well. With progress like this, we may get back in there by early June after all. We'll see...
More cool pictures tomorrow. Cheers!