COLD

We were outside today for most of the day. Tommy worked on cutting a majority of the 3"x3" tiles with funky cuts for around the tumbled stone in between helping his dad in the basement. He was working outside on the tile saw since it gets kind of messy and it was a little too cold!

I tackled fixing up the baseboard moldings. When Andre and Amy did their house they ordered too much molding so they sent it over to our house... but they stacked it when it wasn't completely dry... this created some sticky which left holes in the paint when it peeled off... I spent the entire day sanding them so that you could not longer see the holes... I still have to prime them and repaint them...

Tom's dad worked in the basement. He is doing some work on the heat so that we can hook up the mixing valve near the furnace for the radiant heat in the master bath and possibly the kitchen...

ROCKIN'

We had some helpers today... Tommy and I got up pretty early this morning because we were excited about the stone veneer... We continued from what we laid last night and got about 2/3 of the way to the end of the garage before Tom's Dad and Uncle came with Tommy's new table saw. They drove to PA to pick it up this morning. It is a nice big JET table saw... yay! Tom's dad set Wojcio up with some mortar to put a smooth coat of mortar on the basement side of the house. We though we were going to have stone over there so we had the masons do a scratch coat, but we decided against stone there so we had to have a smooth layer of mortar put on. He did a great job! Tom's dad put the 1x6 along the bottom of the house which made a big difference... Mark came by to help out also... he did the two top windows for us and they came out great (eventually haha!). Tommy and I worked all day on the stone veneer in and out of making sure everyone else had what they needed and got almost to the front steps... We probably need one more batch or mortar to finish it up. Before everyone went home they carried in and laid down the limestone for the fireplace hearth...

MOLDING MORE

We worked on Monday and today on the molding. We finished putting together the pieces that go above windows and doors and then I started to caulk and putty them and eventually put a coat of paint on them. Meanwhile Tommy put some of the original "tops" on the garage door and porch door and then worked on the family room windows some more. Everything is coming along!

MOLDING

On Saturday we did quite a bit of work. Tommy worked on cutting and routing all the material for the rest of the window/door tops while I worked on caulking the coiffered ceiling in the office. We finished each of those jobs at the same time so we worked together on building the window/door tops. Tommy cut all the crown while I nailed it all together. We got it all finished by 7pm and then we got to go hang out for the night.

Sunday we got back to the house and I worked on puttying and caulking the window/door tops. Meanwhile Tommy took apart two that I put together wrong and cut new (larger) crown for the window tops that are going to be going over the arched windows in the family room. When we put them over the windows the first day with the small crown it disappeared, so we stopped at Home Depot and got 2" crown. It looks much better that way!

Before we left on Sunday we put the first set of finished stairs up to see what it looked like. Love it! They look so great. Can't wait to get them installed!