Slow week at the house

November 18 - 24th, 2007

No sign of the stucco guy, he seems to be taking his sweet time at the other site so although we were promised to have stucco complete by Nov 20th, it was not to be. We don't even have revised completion date as of yes, Marat just says "soon".

Slava the plumber has put in a number of drains and vent pipes, and discovered one small issue that he says 'happens all the time' - the toilet drain in the concrete in the basement bathroom is too far away from the wall. He just shrugs and says, we smash out the concrete and fix it.

Marat brought in another carpenter, Boris, so Andreas explained all the outstanding items to him. As far as we can tell, he flipped the front bay side windows, because they were in backwards, and then installed two windows in the basement (incorrectly) and then didn't do anything else. The two windows were just put in too far forward towards the outside. We think it is because the new guy assumed, incorrectly, that we would be covering the whole house with stucco. It's VERY common to do this, but we hate that look so even though the drawings quite clearly show the exisiting brick remaining, it's like they don't think to check the plans!