Taking Shape

This is the laundry room.  The white tubes are for the radiant floor heat.

It's really fun to watch the walls get framed in.  It's starting to feel like we might actually get to live there.

Strangely enough, the space feels A LOT bigger now that it's divided up.

This will start out as our bedroom, but ultimately will be Rob's studio.

Those may just look like rectangles to you...

...but those are stairs, baby. STAIRS. And the plan has been approved by the city.

What does this mean, you're asking?

1) We don't have to go outside to go to Rob's office.
2) We get to have a shower, that right, a SHOWER, in our second bathroom.
3) We get a laundry room. Woo-hoo!

And the crazy thing is, this is what we've wanted from the beginning, asked for from the beginning, but the engineer didn't present the plans correctly, so the city kept saying, "No!"

Someday, when I have a few spare hours, I'll vent all my grievances with the engineer. Yep, he's right up there with the plumber.

I Hate the Plumbers -- Part 3

I think this is progress...at least there are no more dirt piles in the front yard.

I think this means the city signed off, although we are still waiting for paperwork from the plumber and confirmation that the unexplained pipe in the basement is the laundry room drain.

And I want our contractor to double check the sewer pipe; part of it still seems to be perfectly level instead of slightly angled. This is an issue that's already been dealt with once. To quote the guy who is putting the steel into our retaining wall, "Doesn't this idiot know s%@t rolls downhill?"

I Hate the Plumbers -- Part 2

I think this might be the drain for the laundry room...not sure because they haven't bothered to talk to me or the contractor...