M.Kosubays Merry Men

Great progress this week yet again. Things are really coming together now with the tile work almost complete. Danielle has always been really good at visualizing the 'finished' look where as I tend to need a picture! Well as you an see below the pictures Danielle took give us a good idea of what its going to be like.

Entry Tile Being Assembled

Entry Tile Complete

The Kitchen

Grouting

Grouting Complete

Tile Meets Wooden Floor

Family Bathroom

Family Bath

Family Bath 2

Floor Tile

Box Tile

Guest wet room

Guest Shower Begins

Border at the top

Wall Complete

Master wet room

Master Shower

Master Wall

The most important picture of all. In true Danielle style she decided to make lunch for the workmen. I am not sure what French Artisans make of Texas food but I guess since they returned for seconds it was as always awesome. It was also a big milestone for Danielle as she got to do what she has been dreaming about for a long long time.....making people happy in our home!

Chez Danielle's

How to tile a floor when its minus -20C!

I am absolutely amazed at the amount of work that went on last week by all involved. We have had everything thrown at us and the project still moved forward so a big thanks to everyone. The biggest achievement  however has to be Danielle having to drive on narrow, unserviced roads through ice storms, snow and high wind to our hardware store, a round trip of over 100 miles to try and resource heaters for the house (her first time to drive in snow!). Well done sweetheart!!

Danielle's trip was all the more special as she had no choice. M. Kosubay's merry men have been hard at work tiling the kitchen floor. The issue was it was too cold in the house for the cement to dry so everything would have come to a halt if this was not resolved.

In the beginning

Hard at work

2/3 Done

Complete

Island Breakout

Tile meets dining room floor

In addition to the great work done in the kitchen this week, we had a wee bit of a set back due to the cold. It had an adverse effect on some of the work already done by M. Senta's wall prep. This was due to the difference in temp between inside the house and the extreme outside temperature and now requires some work to be redone. 

Ice on the inside window

Icicles

We were not ready for the radiators to be rehung but the extreme cold forced M.Steunou to have his guys refit them all and Danielle organized the delivery of 1000litres of oil. This is the first time in at least 3 years that the boiler. a De Dietrich had been fired up so everyone was a wee bit nervous as to what would happen. Concerns were found-less and it fired up resulting in a nice warm house!

Other progress this week has been the wet room in the master bedroom. This room used to be a closet and so all the plumbing has been added, a special fibre board inserted on the floor and the walls treated prior to tiling.

Fibre Board,tile and drain

The family bathroom tile also started to go down this week

Family Bath Floor

Lower down in the dungeon work went on with the installation of the new doors. The amount of work so far completed is staggering and apart from the obvious it is now becoming evident as we can see part of the garage floor as seen in the last picture!  

Start of Cave Door

Cave Door Finished

Look Space on the floor (house must be nearly finished)

The last piece of work this week was the forms for the downstairs landing area

Lets see what next week brings!

Weekly Updates

With most of the major events now complete i.e. all new plumbing, complete rewire, new widows.....etc in order to continue with the blog then it will be a weekly progress for those that are keeping up with it.


We had good progress this week. M. Kosubay our stone mason started back. His merry men have worked on skreeding the kitchen floor and the wall of the cooker hood.

 With the floor completed the tile will hopefully be going down next week and that starts the fitting out of the kitchen. Once the tiles go down then the Godin and the Range can go in, the island can be assembled then the units fitted! 


As we opened up the stairs down to the basement it became necessary to draft proof the lower floor so 3 doors have to be installed. 

Also this week our Log Fire arrived. With the new flu and fire fully functional, heat, for the first time in years has once again returned to #18!

M. Senta also blasted through an enormous amount of work. He has started to prep the walls and spraying has commenced. It has made a huge difference already so were are excited to see it with colour! 

I'm sure something else happened but I can't remember what! more next week

Deck

I mentioned in one of the earlier blogs (I think it was the one on windows) That as the 'living floor' is actually around 3m above ground level. This has given us a number of problems to deal with but also has it's good points. For one, the view from all the rooms on this floor are fantastic.

From the Living Room

Rear View

From Danielle's Room

So given this we decided to make the new window in the kitchen a bi-fold door instead, opening out onto a deck. I have designed the deck and made some  CAD pictures:

As you can imagine we have over 12" of snow right now so we are on a weather hold to get this work completed but we are hoping the spring.