Last week we were encouraged by how much got accomplished on the first day of renovation. The hole for the staircase was cut and braced and the support post set into place. Then true to all the tales told by Peter Mayle, we saw no workers for almost a week. Despite the written schedule with who was doing what work on what day, no one showed up for any of the assigned tasks. But we continued to work on our assigned task of moving everything out of the bedroom side of the house in preparation for wall removal. We are making 2 large bedrooms out of the existing 4 small ones and are putting a full bathroom in what will be the guest bedroom.
Our architect holds a weekly site review with all of the workers on Tuesday mornings. Late Monday afternoon (about 4 PM) someone arrived to take down the old fireplace. It will look good for the morning meeting! Yesterday everyone showed up and discussed progress (mostly ours) and set the work schedule for the next week. The demolition specialist stayed on and took down the front wall of the old kitchen, the old porch, and the short concrete walk that led to the tree truck. All the rubble was cleaned up and carted away.
Now to our complete astonishment and delight the demolition specialist returned today. In exactly 36 minutes he took down the two walls that separated the bedrooms. This leaves us ready for the electrician and the plumber, the ones who never showed up last week.
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