McHugh/Gant Hangar House

Day 445 - Regroup

Monday , August 21 -- We spent much of the day discussing the tasks that need to be done for final inspection and their priority as we work around the trade's changing schedules:

• The metal fabricators had to move their work days from today and tomorrow to Wednesday and Thursday due to having to wait for replacement metal for the railings. Some of the metal tubing in the first shipment was crushed. Therefore, our interior stair craftsmen had to move their day out one day in order to synchronize their work.
• Pacific Crest Granite should be here Thursday morning to cut facet holes and install the missing/now-found soapstone around the wok
• Richard should be here Friday to work on plumbing

This is all Plan B.

Dave and Rick continued work on the deck, including fishing the power cords through the channels in the deck planks...

John started prepping the garage and hangar stairs for the non-slip coating and railings...

Kelli depleted her cell battery making calls to vendors and the trades. Ken went on a shopping trip to Redding to get supplies for our house and his other projects. He is picking up our closet lights, exterior caulking, deck nails, and tile supplies for installing the laundry soapstone counter.

Bonus Work Day

Over the weekend, we got more work done. Dave worked on the deck--cutting and installing deck boards for the south edge picture frame and doing more light wiring...

Mike installed most of the switch and receptacle plates (some of which required the switches to be pulled out and reinstalled in the packed boxes), and Kelli vacuumed, mopped, oiled soapstone, and unwrapped the kitchen range. This is the first time we have seen the range without its protective plastic...

And we got to relax each afternoon on "Dave's" deck...

Mike found the 2 missing pieces of soapstone. They were carefully packed in a wooden pocket on the slab crate. Five of us had missed the very well constructed pocket.

The weather was very nice this weekend with some light smoke from the fires north northwest of us that are still burning.