Good morning, villagers ~
I thought y'all might be getting bored of my construction reports but I cuop from yesterday and Harriet asked, so here it is:
Day 10:
3 sides of the house have the new siding and window trim, but that crew had to stop mid-morning yesterday because they caught up to the porch guy.
Porch has deck, floor, posts, and roof. The Man said he plans to finish porch sides and build steps today, but he needs the county inspector to sign off on the roof rafters before the ceiling can go up.
When porch guy is done then siding crew will do the front of the house. (Well, they are out there today trying to work at the same time as porch guy; I am staying indoors out of the way so I don't know if they're cooperating.) Siding crew will also finish the porch by wrapping the posts with vinyl, installing rails, and covering the ceiling as well.
A roof guy will come back to shingle the porch roof.
Then will come soffit & fascia all around plus gutters & downspouts.
This morning when I went out to tell them that I turned the breaker back off for the front porch (assuming they would be pulling that wiring through the ceiling some time today), the guy asked if I had bought a light fixture for it. I didn't know that I was supposed to do that. It's a good thing that I hadn't bought one yet, though, because he pointed out that the new porch ceiling will be several inches lower than the old one. I'll have to find something that the screen door won't crash into.
The challenge is that I'm pretty much trapped here since as I explained before, they are plugged in to my kitchen outlet with the back door propped open. I can't leave to go buy fixtures (back door & porch) because we don't have a hardware store here in TinyTown so that would mean a long trip to TheBigCity. DH said not to worry about it as he can install the light fixtures himself.
Every day I get up early, put on clothes/makeup immediately, move my car to a public parking lot a block away, and walk home. (I've actually been enjoying that early morning walk very much and want to continue doing that as long as the weather will let me. ) At 7:00AM they arrive and I plug in their extension cord. Every now and then throughout the day they pop the circuit and I need to run downstairs to flip the switch back. When the siding crew works all day, they stay until 5:30PM. I'm finding it a bit frustrating to have to be "on call" for that many hours every day.
Last night after supper I made a run to Sam's because I knew I could get in and out of there quickly. I wanted a set of inexpensive shelves from there for today's decluttering project, plus we were out of milk, bread, butter, and lunch meat. 1 stop shopping and it made me feel better to get out of the house for a couple hours.
I don't know how many more days this construction will continue. It's already gone several days longer than the guy who bid it told me it would be. I am assuming they will take this entire holiday weekend off, which will be a huge relief.