2008_06_24 Kitchen appliances, shower, intercom system, fireplaces, bridge

These pictures were taken 2 days before we were to move the furniture into the house. You heard that right - two days! So, as you view what was going on imagine how stressed out we were at this point. It was too late to postpone it any longer. We had movers committed to us for 6/26/08 and we were not going to try to extend the apartment stay into July anyway.

Oh, yeah, we had to leave on Saturday 6/28 (2 days after the furniture move) to go to Navarre Beach, FL for the week with Kathy's family that we always try to attend.

Below you can see the wall oven and the microwave with the plastic stuff on them still. In case you wonder about such things they are GE Profile brand as will be the cook top and cook top downdraft vent that you saw in an earlier posting. The refrigerator is different (LG) and the dishwasher will be a Bosch.



Here is the refrigerator. It has ice (cubes in 3 sizes and crushed ice) and water in the door.

Below you can see Roberto's sense of humor in the base for the rock that is to go on the fireplace in the great room. If you were to have a very good picture of this you could also see the sort of honeycomb shaped wire that was stapled (with probably a thousand staples) to the fireplace wall and that the mud type of base was put on and allowed to harden before the rocks were then put on it.

The mantel is sitting on the floor. It is 4 inches by 16 inches and about 6 and a half feet long.

Kedrick Hammond is the guy who put in the security system and also the intercom system. He is getting ready to put in the main intercom panel.

Roberto is putting rock on the fireplace in the bedroom.

The shower tile is now getting close to being finished. That's still just a work light in there and you can see the cord hanging down.

Here's a closer look at the shower. The floor and the strip around the wall are real rocks. The blue drain cover is blue because it still has the protective plastic cover on it.

Below is a view of one of the intercom speakers. There are speakers in every bedroom, the great room, the screened porch, the workshop, and the front porch. You can play radio or CDs through them. Each room has individual volume control and you can select the privacy button if you don't want anyone else to be able to listen to what's going on where you are. I guess I should say that you can "call" someone from any of them and then if you want to be able to listen to their response without them having to get up and go to their speaker to respond you can press both buttons at once (I think that's right) and you can listen to someone from wherever they are in their room.

This feature is also used to be able to listen to see who is at the front door.

This is just a view of the great room fireplace from about halfway up the stairs.

Scott is helping put together the front porch "bridge" to the driveway out front. The notch at the bottom of the boards will be filled with a 2 x 2 to give added support to the floor. There's also the same notch at the end that meets the porch.

Here's the other end.

Now the flooring is on it. The hand rails will come later.