We love our Plumber!

One of the best choices we made when choosing contractors was our plumber. He lives locally, and ever since we let him know we wanted him to do the work, he has been keeping close watch on the house. As soon as something is ready for him, he is already there doing the work.

We talked to him a couple weeks ago when he stopped by the house one morning while we were waiting for an inspector. He reminded us to order the tubs to have them ready for him. This is the one we chose:

He knew they were getting close to being framed out, and on the last day even stopped by to talk to the framers about the size of the tub surround for the master bathroom.  He has also made some good suggestions like installing a recirculating hot water system so we wouldn't have to wait for hot water in the kitchen and changing the size of the tub surround to give more room for "stuff".

He called yesterday to ask what type of shower faucets we were going to want, because he was getting started today. And when we stopped by around 9:30 this morning, they were already hard at work getting the plumbing stubbed out.  At the end of the day, they had it all done and two tubs were in!

Also today, the sliding doors got framed out and the front door went in. There is some finish work to be done on the windows and doors, so the window installers will probably be back again tomorrow.

We were so happy to get to put in a doorknob! (It's the small things.)  This won't be the permanent one, but something to put in through the construction process. 

Front Door

Yesterday, the framers finished up the coffer in the living room.

And we got to install the attic ladder. This one was tricky- we couldn't just get a standard ladder. The ceilings in most of the house are all at 9'4", but since the garage is lower, the ceilings in there are 10'6".  Since the standard attic ladders only go to 10', we had to get one that went extra tall. But, we got it in!

Our only setback today was that we discovered that the kitchen island was not in the right place.

So the dimension from the other side of the back kitchen wall to the side of the knee wall should be 9'3 1/2".  

This is a bad picture, but the actual measurement is a little more than 11'9". We think the wall just got flipped around the plumbing. The framers said they would take care of it. I'm sure they will. 

One last thing happened: Our shingles got delivered to the roof this week!