I took half the day off on Thursday so that Dad and I could go and pick up the tiles for the bathroom and the Flexitec (a type of Vinyl flooring) for the kitchen and the mudroom. Apparently I forgot to mention to Dad that the tiles were going to weigh 1000 lbs, so he was a little surprised at that...he had loaded a log splitter into the back of his truck, and hooked a trailer up to the truck for the tiles and the flooring. When we picked up the tiles, we had to put them in the middle of the trailer on the axels, just to be safe. When we went to get the Flexitec, it was 13 feet long, and we didn't think at first that it would fit on the trailer properly. We couldn't run it down the middle of the trailer, so it had to be off to the side, and we were thinking that it might not work that way. But it ended up working, with only a little bit of the flooring hanging off the edge of the trailer at the back. We got it out to the house with no problems.
We started to unload the tiles from the trailer, and now know that it will be really fun to move everything into our house when the time comes...those front stairs are a pain! We got all of the tiles in but one box before Ryan even got their after work. We made him carry the last box in. Moving the Flexitec was fun too. That stuff is heavy. It took four of us to move it up the stairs and into the livingroom. After that was done, we moved the tiles from the main floor up into the all of the rooms on the second floor. We didn't want to put all 1000 lbs of it (1010 to be exact...that's what the guy at Ceratec said) in one room, or in one spot. That, too, was fun.
After we finished moving everything around, we took some of the tiles out of the boxes to see what they looked like, and took some pictures of them. They look much better in the pictures than they do in person...I still can't figure out why.
Glen & Joey were working on the stair railings during the day, and got the hand rails all up. It'll be interesting to see the spindles once they get them installed. He was worried that we didn't buy enough spindles, but Ryan talked to him once we got to the house and he said that he figured now that there would be enough.
And here are the stairs from the garage to the house:
I keep looking at the house, and thinking "We're supposed to be in by October 15th...". Let's do the math on that one. As of Thursday, that's 19 days away. 6 of those days are weekend days, bringing us down to 13 days. One of those days is Thanksgiving day, bringing us down to 12 days. There are only 12 days left until we're supposed to move in...It'll never happen. Now, if we were to be in by October 31st, that would give us 35 days...10 of those are weekend days, leaving 25 days. One of those days is Thanksgiving day, bringing us to 24 days. That might be a more realistic time frame. We'll see. I just want to be in before it snows. October 31st might be pushing it.
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