Off to the Races

We officially closed on Friday!  Yay!  Over the weekend, we got into the house and got to work.  I refined our scope of work yet again.  Every time I go through I find new things to do.  I took our list of the things we need to do, broken down by room, and went through it again to see if we had failed to list anything.  I found a few things and came home and corrected them.  I now have what I think are some pretty good scopes.

The carpet came out this weekend and I am thrilled to find that the floors are pretty decent underneath.  There is hardwood upstairs in the bedrooms but we are going to carpet up there.  I prefer carpet in the bedroom and have actually quizzed lots of folks about that.  Most people prefer carpet in the bedroom so that’s what we’re going with.

The hot tub came out… with a Sawzall.  My wonderful husband surprised me by doing that today.  I am thrilled to see it gone.  Some girls like flowers – what can I say?  The deck doesn’t look too bad.  There’s a big hole in it of course but that can be fixed.  Glen, my handyman extraordinaire, will arrive tomorrow to get started on that.

Tomorrow I am meeting with my electrician and hope to meet a new plumber tomorrow.  The roof should begin tomorrow. 

Tomorrow’s schedule includes: meeting with the electrician to go over the scope, getting the roofers going, calling the plumber out for a bid, getting the deck demo going with Glen, out to Lowe’s to buy decking materials.  I also need to call Kirk, the fireplace guy, to schedule the chimney sweep and work.  My carpet guy moved so I am going to have a new guy come out this week to measure and see what I think of him.

Tuesday I will head to Lowe’s to buy what will, undoubtably, seem like half the store.  I like to go to Lowe’s over HD.  There are things I like better at HD (faucets mostly) but I have found myself at Lowe’s more and more.  I definitely prefer Lowe’s for lighting and bath vanity type products.  I am sure I will hit both stores before the week though. 

I know that I need to get to the point that I am not the one running to the hardware store.  I have found, however, that each house is unique and will need something that the last one just didn’t need and I need to go to the hardware store to shop.  So, that’s where I am still.  I really do not like going to Lowe’s… truly.  But I do like to control the finished look and I can’t give it up just yet…