Friday, May 29, 2009

Renovations: Week 2

No major set backs this week. The dumpster didn't show up on Tuesday as planned, but otherwise the guys made a lot of progress for a short week.

We had to hire a crane to move the vanity from the first floor to the second. The staircase has a turn at the top that makes it impossible to move any large furniture upstairs. This is the fourth time we have had a crane move a piece of furniture through a second story window. Of course, this was the only time that things did not go smoothly. They damaged the copper flashing and decorative molding above our entry way and caused some minor damage to the vanity, but apparently their insurance company is going to take care of us.
As for progress...



The house is wide open from front to back. Todd's guys are standing in the kitchen about to knock out and frame in where a window used to be. The first floor has a lot of framing left. Most of this week's progress was made in the Master Bath on the second floor.

They have installed the pocket door. We used an original french door that was in our basement as the pocket door. It will slide behind the shower wall that is framed out in this picture.

Here is the tub frame for the drop in Airbath. The framed out piece on the far left of the deck is actually the bench that will be in the shower. The shower and the bath deck will overlap with a close enclosure

Just another shot from the Master Bedroom into the Master Bath. They have framed out where the glass block window will go in the back. Being in the city, our neighbors are literally RIGHT behind our house, so we went with an obscured glass block window to maintain privacy and let the light in.

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