We Have Dial Tone

The phone is completely installed, 1,400 feet back from the road into our kitchen, we have dial tone! Last major system to make it up the hill. The water line is into the house, they are installing a pressure regulator and in-line water filter today and will install the water softener tomorrow, the hot water tank is already installed, ready for all the connections to be made including all that is necessary for the outside boiler. Pretty complex inside the utility room with all we have going on!. We have 70lbs of water pressure from the county so we had to put in a pressure regulator to tame that down a bit to reduce problems with facets, toilets, etc they say more like 55lbs is ideal but we can adjust it up if we want more pressure for showers, etc.

All of the cabinets are installed, they finished today. This includes the entire kitchen and the vanities and linen closets in all three bathrooms. The vanity tops are installed and the granite kitchen counter top gets installed next Thursday. They came and made a lazer generated computer template last week. Apparently they have a machine that then cuts out a template from plastic, they then lay it on the granite pieces to get the best pattern and use out of each piece of granite, before cutting it.

The Amish crew is installing the remaining doors, door hardware and working on the hickory stairs. With the exception of the outside boiler pavilion and a few small odds and ends, they should be all wrapped up this week. A different Amish person is then going to do the log railing, still not confident that will be installed before we move in, we will see. We need to run and get him one evening once the stairs are done so he can make final measurements before final cutting prior to coming over for the actual installation.

And finally, the carpet in the two upstairs bedrooms was installed today, one more step towards completion!

Master bathroom hickory cabinets, linen closet and solid surface counter top. Just need a fawcet and toilet and we will be good to go! (oh, and a mirror....)

Kitchen cabinets 100% completed. Just need the granite counter top and the the appliances all connected and we will be ready to go here to! I installed the under cabinet lighting Sunday morning.

Carpet being installed in the upstairs bedrooms. The upstairs bedrooms are now 100% complete.