Rick & Lori: 7/20/25

This week, Rick arrived on Thursday morning, and I arrived on Friday afternoon. He removed and replaced the back door and worked on wiring the laundry room, back porch light, and a future outdoor electrical plug. He continued working on wiring in the attic Friday morning and was able to run wires to the back of the house with the assistance of our neighbor after removing some siding. Friday afternoon we installed the rest of the doors and door knobs, installed springs behind most doors (some will need a different approach), installed the vanity mirror in the 1st bathroom, and moved all of the stuff from the laundry room into the 3rd bedroom and other areas.

Saturday morning Rick completed the wiring above the laundry room, and we removed and replaced the final window and installed the light in the laundry room. I assisted as needed and hoed lots of weeds in the yard while he was working on the window.

On Sunday, we prepped the laundry room walls for painting (sanded, filled nail holes/bad spots, wiped down the walls, taped off door trim/windows/cabinets), and painted the laundry room walls (2 coats + touch-ups). I did wall paint touch-ups throughout the house, and we also installed a ceiling fan in the 2nd bedroom and installed the pocket door hardware (1 piece not yet finished) in the 2nd bathroom before loading stuff up and heading back home.

We're getting much closer now. Next week we'll install flooring, put on baseboards, put up trim on laundry room walls/window, and paint trim/baseboards/cabinets in the laundry room. We'll also put up trim outside on the new window, put up 3 more ceiling fans, complete pocket door hardware, and install threshold trim in the 2 bathrooms between the new flooring and the hardwood floors. We also need to put up under cabinet lighting (it arrived over the weekend), put up tile in the kitchen, put insulation in the attic, finish paint touch-ups, and have the sidewalks poured. We're having problems getting our potential concrete guys to call us back...