M & J Altomare: We Have Electricity

It's been a bit since the last update. Last week we had the electric company and the gas company out to put in service.

The electric company had up to 5 BIG trucks out with several guys trenching, digging, laying line and putting in a new transformer. We were too far from the current transformers to use them, so we now have our own. That's nice for getting electricity to the house, but bad for the budget. This was an over budget item, but can't live without that electricity. So as of late last week we have electricity. Our electricians came right after the electric company left and wired some temporary lights and outlets. THANKS to Russcher Electric for a great job so far. Looking forward to getting to the end.

We also had the gas company out last week. They had a couple of trucks and had to run the line under the highway to get service to our house. A couple of guys and a day and a half for that job to get done. Of course we had to have one problem with getting the utilities in, they hit the septic field. The nice new septic field, so had to have the septic guys back out to do repairs on the field. But that all got done by week end. Now we are waiting to get the pressure tests done and any issues fixed (yes we have a small problem at the fireplace that is being fixed as I type). Hopefully, we will be able to have the furnace running by the end of the week. That would help, since this has been such rainy and damp weather to get things dried out in the house. The basement bath still is not dry from the drywall that was hung and mudded two weeks ago.

We had the hardwood flooring and all the tile for the basement bath, family entry area and the master bath floor and shower delivered last Monday. The garage is getting full of materials again. The siding was delivered and is sitting in the driveway.

The exterior trim was finished this week and hopefully it will be a bit warmer so the trim can be painted. Once the trim is painted we will be able to get the siding hung.

Ivan layed the cement board down for the tile areas and is hoping to get the waterproofing done on the shower walls tomorrow. Then will start to lay the tile floors.

So here are some pictures of the happenings going on over the last couple of weeks:


Here are a few of the utility trucks installing service last week. Of course, there is Mike in the middle of the action, in his shorts and red jacket.

The basement bath with fresh cement board on the floor, waiting for tile. The tile may be starting tomorrow.

The closet in the basement bath.

This is one of the spare bedrooms in the basement.

Another of the bedrooms in the basement.

The basement area that will have a patio out the doors.

The cement board was layed down today and is marked by paint cans to not walk on the fresh boards. Tile will be going down this week.

This is the family entry that had to have some self leveling cement put in today. So that the concrete floor and the wood sub floor could be even for the tile flooring. Once that drys, hopefully in a few days, the tile can be laid.

The deck framing has been done, but we need to decide on what kind of deck boards we want to have. We know we want some composite, no maintenance. There are so many, we just need to make a decision and then order.

The sun room and kitchen all primed and waiting for flooring, then paint and cabinets. The cabinets were ordered, just waiting for delivery.

Here is the fireplace. We met with the stone guy last week and he is ordering the stone and hopefully will get in installed soon.

Oops, small problem with the fireplace, a leak that needed to be fixed. It is fixed now, but we need to get the drywall fixed now. Always something, hopefully they will all be small things.

The front doors waiting to get a driveway, that is way down the line for now. So we'll have lots of sand and dirt for now.

Okay, imagine this sometime in the near future this will be a kitchen. The guys have made comments that they can't believe how many cabinets we'll have. Can never have too much space.

This will be the place for our bed. Can't wait to get that done, but it will be some time.

More cement board that was put in today, this is the master closet and bath. Maybe tile tomorrow.

This is the sun room, it's just waiting for sun.

This is the siding, it can't be installed until the exterior trim is painted. The trim can't be painted until the nights warm up to mid 50's. Who would have thought that wouldn't be happening in mid-May.