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A busy little week....

This past week we had several important things happen. Our natural gas was hooked up by PG&E (excellent service) , our water and our sewer connections were hooked up by the City of Sacramento (It was truly amazing to see how many trucks and men they send to do this) and most importantly, after failing our temporary electrical panel inspection THREE times, on the fourth time we finally passed it and were able to call SMUD to ask them to pull the electical service to our panel. They told us it would take 10-13 days, it actually took 4.....Who knew that calling them 5 times and crying on the phone would be so effective.....

Other progress:

HVAC - The boiler is mounted in the garage and there is copper piping going all over out there. The air handler up in the 3rd floor is starting to be reconnected, several of the ducts had to be cut during the installation of the insulation and wallboard. This system should be done by the end of the week, of course, they have said that each of the past two weeks.

Stucco - Finally, after 4 months of scaffolding, the stucco is done.....They will come back this week and fix a few minor problems.

Tile - We have located a tile installer to put in the tile, he's going to do it the week of Feb 20th.

Floors - We had a nasty weekend of floor scrubbing.....the acid staining from last weekend was OK, but not great, we tried to fix it, the fix was worse than the original, it is on hold for a couple of weeks.

Coming up This week -

All window glass on the West, North, and East side will be replaced due to a screw up by the distributor.
The HVAC system should finish up.
The stucco should be completely done.
The concrete bench in the living room should be poured on Monday.
The SureWest fiber optic line will be installed on Tuesday(TV/Internet/Phone)
The alarm system will be installed on Wednesday

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Anonymous said…
Mike - Just think what sweet dreams you'll have when it's all done - then I'll bring some Arugula seeds and you can start a new landscape :-) Looks absolutely fantastic. xo CathiU
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