It's been a little slower to watch the progress the past couple of weeks. The team at Structural FX are working on the foundation in the back of the house which involves a lot of calculations, careful wood construction and rebar work. They are expecting to pour cement next week.
In the mean time, Brian has been chasing the City getting the last of the building plans through the various departments and making slight modifications to meet their requirements. The final approval for the building plans should be granted next Friday at which time the main house is scheduled to be demolished and the last of the debris in the front of the house cleared.
I've taken the opportunity to further advance our kitchen cabinet and other cabinet designs with the Home Depot kitchen designer who has been great. We're almost done with this now. One more iteration of minor changes and it will be final.
We received our hardwood floor very quickly. It is already taking up a lot of space in the garage but that was expected. It turns out that the same company that quoted me at $10+ sq/ft was the one that delivered it for the company on the Internet that I bought it at $6.50 sq ft. Go figure how that works!!
I also ordered our fireplace. We chose a wood burning fireplace model made by Napoleon, the NZ26. It's the same one my father has and I've seen it in action, it performs superbly. No smoke when you open the door. Totally sealed door. The wood burns with flames rolling all over the top, it looks really neat when a log burns in one of these. It has an automatic thermostat that turns a blower on when it reaches a certain temperature. And best of all, there is no leakage of your warm air from the house outside after the fire burns out. We bought it from fireplacewarehouse.biz in Colorado. It will take a week to get here.
