I just got off the phone with the contractor. The tile is all in! They are going to do the grout tomorrow but the tile is all in place today. Damn, I wish I could see it! But I have to work late tonight, and since we're going back out to Pittsboro tonight, stopping at the house would add an hour of driving. So I guess I'll just have to wait until tomorrow. Oh wait! Georg has my suitcase in his trunk and the camera is in it. So he can take pictures for me. Yay, I'll get to see it after all!
We also talked about the vanity. The contractor says that the plumber took it upon himself to move the vanity without taking the door into consideration. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I'm not really concerned about who's to blame as long as it gets fixed. Also as long as no one thinks it's my fault and therefore I should pay for fixing it.
Anyway. The contractor says that if at all possible, they would like to avoid ripping out the wall and redoing the plumbing. Which I can certainly understand as I'm sure that would be costly. They are going to try moving the vanity as far to the right as they can while leaving the plumbing where it is. So that inside the vanity, the pipes will come out of the wall on the left edge and then bend to the right on their way to the sink top. Did that make any sense at all? He had a technical way of explaining it which I forget, but that was the gist of it.
They may still have to put the door on the outside, but again that would be okay with me. It really seems silly when you think about it, to have the door on a 4' x 8' bathroom open in. The door practically takes up half the room.
In a way this may turn out to be an improvement. With the vanity moved to the left, we might have room to put one of those pretty storage towers in there, for towels and so forth. Right now we keep all the towels in the hall closet and it would be really nice to have a towel right there if you forget. As long as it's not blocking the door, having it moved over a bit might be really nice.
Of course the situation isn't resolved yet -- it won't be truly resolved until the vanity is in there -- but so far I'm happy with the way Rick is handling this. He seems to be trying to resolve it, not point fingers, which is nice. Also he was extremely apologetic about the air conditioning, and about their not being done until Monday. (as well he should be!)
OK, do I have anything else to report. Right, the guest house has been flea bombed so we are on our way back there tonight. Georg will probably get there long before me as I'm working late at Stoneline. They have just been put on a weekly tax deposit schedule, which is a collossal pain in all our asses. I only go there once a week so I have to estimate the deposit, and then each week make sure we weren't under the week before. I wonder if the IRS knows, or cares, what a burden this is for a company with only eight employees.
I've read two sf novels in the past couple of days so I'm taking the Book of Thoth with me tonight. How's that for light bedtime reading? Maybe I'll look at a card each night and see if I dream about it.
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