Catching up

So I am gonna attempt to catch this blog up to real time in this one  single post. We left off at the end of week one, which went as planned and almost smoothly. I say almost because of a little incident  that happened on Thursday (May 9th). As we got to the building that night to see what had been done that day, we noticed that the garage door was stuck half way opened. We thought, “well, that stinks, glad we are not staying here”, parked at the Locust street garage, checked out the apartment and then left. 
The next day Jerry found out that it had been one of our workers that had hit the garage door opener with a ladder that was sitting at the back of his truck . Ooooops! Thankfully the guy took responsibility and even took care of getting it fixed the next day.

Week two also went as planned. However it didn’t feel to me that a lot got done, mainly because all they did was electrical work. Physically the space didn’t change much. They cut wholes in the ceiling for our new can lights, ceiling fans , moved outlets around, added new outlets, wired the living room for surround sound and probably did a lot more than I know or care to understand. Jerry could tell you all about it!

By the end of week two we were given our estimated moving day - June 3rd! At that point it meant we only had two more weeks to go! I got super excited!!

On week three the HVAC guys came over and relocated and replaced our round vents with rectangle ones.  This one is in the master bedroom:

This one is in the living-room:

 Also, all the blocking got done during week three. If you don't know what blocking is, don't  you feel super ignorant.  You are not alone! I had never heard of it up until a few weeks ago. It is those pieces of wood attached to the metal framing that you see on the picture above and it's there to provide support for things we are going to hang on the walls, such as TVs, furniture, and (maybe) electrical fireplaces.  

This one is for the guest bedroom TV:

And here you see the top one for the master bedroom TV and the bottom one for an electric fireplace (if we can find a cool one):

The pocket door to our walk-in closet also got framed. That's right, we'll only have one walk-in closet for both of us. Originally we were gonna divide the laundry room/pantry in half and that was going to give us the ability to have 2 walk-in closets in the master. But, it turned out there was this huge, massive, metal pipe running in the wall right where we needed the door to the closet to be. So, Jerry literally went back to the drawing board and re-designed our closet configuration. This is the updated floor plan:

So this is the framed pocket door for the closet:

 And last but not least, the sheet rock arrived on Thursday. I was there and saw them bringing them up one of the elevators. I was so glad to see that they fit in there. We thought they were gonna have to carry them up 6 flights of stairs!! Those guys were sweating hard just bringing them from the elevators to the apartment!

       

                                                                       

So this past Friday (May 25th) they put the sheet rock up. Now we have walls!!!

Master Bedroom

Living Room

Guest Bedroom showing opening to closet on the left

Dining Room to the left, Master door opening to the right

Everything was going according to schedule until we had the inspection on Friday. It turns out that we won't be able to put new sheet rock on the ceiling to cover up the horrendous popcorn finish. We decided to do that because not only do we have "popcorn on steroids" ceilings, but also the previous owners painted over them, which made it impossible to scrape the popcorn off. So our plan was to just attach new 1/4'' sheet rock to it. However due to fire code the ceiling sheetrock needs to be fire rated and the fire rated kind only comes in a much thicker- and heavier-  size (can't remember exactly precise number). So mister inspector said "no, no". Now we are waiting to see what his suggestion will be, but most likely they'll have to rip off the old ceilings and put the new smooth sheetrock up. Bottom line is: we are not moving back into our place on June 3rd. We rescheduled our moving day to June 11th. 

Oh well, what's another week or two, right? We've only been "moving" since the end of February, when we started packing up our old house. 
No biggy! It's all good! It will be worth it in the end! (Repeat three times, five times a day!) 

So stay tuned for more updates! We are all caught up now!