Rick arrived Thursday morning, and I arrived early Friday afternoon. He met with a new concrete guy on Thursday who measured everything in order for them to provide an estimate, but we haven't heard back from them yet. He worked on installing trim around the ceiling and cabinets in the laundry room, put up screen molding in several areas, started installing the under-cabinet lighting, and started installing the new flooring in the laundry room. He would have had all of the flooring in before I arrived but discovered on box #8 of 9 that the final two boxes were the wrong color. We had purchased the flooring at Costco a week or two prior, and there are no Costcos near Benjamin except in Lubbock and Fort Worth (both about 2 to 2 1/2 hrs away). We shifted to installing ceiling fans on Friday afternoon and installed shower caddies in the 1st bathroom shower. I pondered how the timing of everything was going to work out as completing the laundry room baseboards and painting the trim and cabinets all depended on the floor installation being finished.
Early Saturday morning, I decided to make a very quick trip to Lubbock to switch out the flooring for the correct color. I was at Costco in Lubbock at about 9:40 am, and after a little delay due to a price change, a bathroom pitstop, a stop by the gas station, and a quick stop by the BBQ place in Dickens, I was back in Benjamin by 12:10 pm. The electricity was off in Benjamin (apparently the entire town) for much of the time that I was gone but thankfully came back on before I got back. Rick finished installing the under-cabinet lighting, and we then completed the flooring, installed the baseboards, put soft(er) close hinges on the storage bench in the kitchen nook, cleaned a lot of dust/sawdust from most floors, and started moving some stuff out to the storage shed and to the van to bring back home. We also made plans for blowing insulation into the attic next weekend and will hopefully use a hardware store and rent equipment at Stamford.
Sunday, we taped the laundry room and painted the trim, cabinets, door, and baseboards. We also did paint touchups and caulking on the trim throughout the house. If everything goes as planned, we may be able to finish the inside of the house next weekend. We still need to install the insulation in the attic, put up the tile backsplash in the kitchen, install the cabinet doors in the laundry room (Rick will make them and paint them here), clean the floors/countertops/walls, install thresholds in the kitchen-laundry room/laundry room-3rd bed room/1st bathroom/2nd bathroom doors, install the living room ceiling fan, replace 3 plugs in the laundry room, and do more touch up things. Mother's move-in date will be determined by when the sidewalks are poured.
