The house was a beehive of activity last week except for the stinging, the honey and the wax. Many different trades were working away inside at the same time.
On the outside, the final coat of Dove Grey colored stucco was applied to the back and sides of the house and to the exterior of the top floor.
When the sun hits the house just right, the grey stucco appears to glow with an etheral interior glow, just like me when I am wandering through the aisles at Fry's.
On the inside, the freshly primed walls and ceilings are examined and any flaws are marked with a piece of blue tape:
Soon afterwards, the blue tape markers were replaced by pink patches of drywall repair material.
In a case of deja vu all over again, we went from white gypsum boards to pink patches to white patches to blue tape and back to pink patches again. Now we need to wait for these patches to dry to sand and paint the walls and cielings.
While we wait for the pink patches to dry, the tile crew gets busy laying tile in the Grotto:
And the laundry room:
The master bedroom deck's tiling continues:
The tile for the master bathroom is waiting to be installed:
While the tiles getting laid, the ipe planks for the back deck and fence are delivered:
and moved to the back decks to be installed:
And speaking of the back deck, the main bridge swaps its plywood deck for a steel grate:
and the same steel grating is used to make the two smaller bridges:
As much as I like the decking, it seems odd that this material is more air than steel and that you can see through it without much problem without the need for X-Ray vision:
On the other side of the main bridge, the monsoon room gets tested with the shower heads on and the electronic vlave and controller powered up.
Unfortunately, your correspondent missed the actual test and was not able to record it for the blog, but based on reliable accounts of the event, it looked something like this:
Another development signalling progress is the delivery of the trim and casing planks for the doors and windows:
As the buzzing continues, we hope to see more and more of this material actually attached to the house -- but that's for next week.
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