Back Yard

Victor and Clay continue to work away in the back yard today with the backhoe and rake! So many rocks!
Victor is setting up to make the outdoor steps to the basement this afternoon.
I'm doing the usual which is driving around picking up supplies! I think this is the bit I don't like. I'd rather just be at the house. However as they say whatever it takes to get the job done.
I've spent the rest of the afternoon raking leaves and it seems like I will never be done- there's 2 years worth atleast!
Ok 4.44 pm- Victor and Clay have left now home to the boys until I run back for the electrician!!

Victors back and backhoe work nearly done!

So yesterday after my blog about the lock box being taken I spent the rest of the afternoon tracking down parts the electricians needed to wire up the geothermal and heating units!
Today Victor should finish leveling the front right side of yard/ doing the outdoor basement stairs and covering the last bits of the water pipes to the cultecs.
Keith and Joe, the geo guys are setting up the thermostats. They're adding the zone panels and zone dampers also t oday.
Hopefully carpenters and electricians will return later today.
Victor digs up the tulip tree stump in pieces as he tries to level the rhs of the yard front to back. This was one of the trees we had removed as the center had rotted. It's branches we're 30 ft long!
The Commisso brothers came by and picked up their machine! That's the last thing in the front yard to go except the portaloo. They did an amazing job with all the excavation for our watermains/ sewer line. Only Anthony could have found that water main connection to the street pipe- it wasn't where it was suppose to be! They also did the trenching for geo lines.
So the electrician did come as well as the carpenters. It was a long day and we didn't get out til 9.45 pm!
Pantries looking good and well I can't wait to get cooking in the kitchen.

Good Bye LockBox

Monday morning and the sun is out and Bob from the AB Richards rental company is here early. What a jolly man- a biker with tattoo flames on his arms and married to sweet Ti! Without driving the truck on the nicely leveled yard he gets the lock box loaded onto his truck.
The front of the house is looking less and less like a construction site now.

Kitchen Install

I'm suddenly woken up at 8 am by Kamal's phone call. "Where are the kitchen cabinet plans? The guys are here to install the kitchen cabinets"
So my day begins!
I'm relieved as they take out the cabinets one by one, I love the color even more and well some of you will notice the style is like our Longview house cabinet door. Still looks good to me.
11.55 am Karen Barnes our neighbor and kitchen designer comes to check out the cabinets and give the carpenters instructions!
As usual Kamal challenges the carpenters and tells them to tweak the cabinetry over the fridge and panels on the side to fit our fridge.
4.14 pm the carpenters have installed some of the wall cabinets by the desk area. Seeing these cabinets brings back the wonderful memories of our Longview kitchen and the fun parties. It makes me feel a little sad as it reminds me of how much I miss being in that kitchen. I guess it's comforting knowing that there will be something familiar when we move in here.

Lock Box treasure/ it's raining but we are dry

So finally time to tackle the lock box that's been sitting on our property for 18 months!
Found the handrail from the original house tucked away in the back. Perfect- can use that for the basement stairs! It will be company for the old oak floor boards that we reused for the stair landings. Kamal had insisted that he would find a place for these oak floor boards that were pulled out from the original house that stood here, built in 1936.
It's drizzling/ raining today but now that the gutter down spouts are connected to the 6 " solid pipes and draining that water into our newly installed cultecs far away from the house I am feeling really dry! Hooray!

Front Yard

First order of the day- getting our front yard back! Victor works his backhoe with great expertise as he covers the 7 cultecs in the front that they installed 2 days!
10.45 am- Victors pulling out the stone that bordered the driveway.
3/4 of front of house soil leveled. Now the garage side.

The Door handles….

Look & feel great!