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February 17, 2007

Construction Daily

Today was the first day of "visible" building - tiling the ladies room floor in the tasting room. I've been looking forward to getting into the tiling for a long time, having done so many other tile jobs when I used to work for my cousin Bill back in the college days. We're definitely jumping the gun a bit since the room hasn't been drywalled yet, but we're really running out of time to get our occupancy permit - the bank gives you one year or else you have to go back to another closing (and closing COSTS) so May 9th is the due date. Given the rate our crew has been moving at lately I just can't afford to wait, so we're taking the risks and tiling ahead of drywall. So I have to leave appropriate space around the perimeter of the room for the drywall, and I'll lay down luann and plywood to protect the floor from the drywall stilts.

Shannon was also able to get her mom to come out and babysit for a few hours so she could lay some tile. So I marked out the floor and spent a lot of time checking where all the cut tiles would lay to ensure I didn't have any odd cuts at the doorway or along the walls. Once the whole project was laid out, it was time to assemble the new wet saw I purchased for all the tile work coming up. And wouldn't you know it, but after getting everything all set up and built the damn saw motor was shot. I turned that thing on and thought it was going to blow up. Soooo pissed, but the worst part was that Shannon wasn't going to get to do any tiling today. We hopped in the truck and went over to Home Depot to get another saw, and by the time we were done it was time to get Shannon home to relieve her mom. After that I went back to the house and started tiling around 7 PM. I didn't finish until after 11, and probaby irritated the hell out of my neighbors due to the racket from the wet saw. Sorry! Anyhow I got it done and went home to bed.

Check out the pics.

Daily hours = 12
Total hours = 186

Posted by Stephen at February 17, 2007 10:15 PM