The Deck's Decked!!

Even though it rained most of the day, apparently Steve was able to get enough dry moments to finish the main surface of the back deck today! It looks totally awesome, and I had to open the Nanawall to get the full effect of the inside/outside union. I think H will be very happy.

I also picked up the cork flooring for the kitchen today on my lunch break, from Ecohaus. They gave me a nice professional discount with it, and was able to walk away with the last 5 boxes they had on site. So maybe Pete can get cranking on that soon.

It's exactly four weeks to October 31 today. That's four more weekends. Tomorrow and Sunday will be all about painting. I think Pete will finish off the woodwork upstairs tomorrow, and then will shift into building the kitchen cabinets. I need to get moving on the electrical work with Darren (he hasn't called this week), and Steve will be doing siding outside probably most of the week. It's going to be very busy here soon, and I may have to do the full week off work in a week or two just to focus on making it all happen.

Stay tuned; this is where it gets interesting.

After the VEEPs; The Blog Report

Steve put about half the decking on today, in addition to finishing up the taping and mudding of "his rooms" in the basement so H and I can finish the painting the weekend. The decking looks awesome; though it's a little darker than I thought it would be, he's countersinking each screw neatly and all in all crafting a very nicely built surface. It's that recycled plastic material called "Trex", and instead of the extremely fake wood-look surface, we special ordered the smooth material. Steve says no one he works for ever wants that fake wood stuff, but it's the only thing Home Despot carries, so you see it pretty much everywhere else. The same is true for the Hardi-plank siding. It's easy to get the wood-look stuff, but all the projects Steve does use the smooth surface stuff. Go figure. He also made sure I ordered the Trex in "Winchester Gray", and not the usual brown, which he said always fades. This stuff still looks dark to me, but I'll take his word for it.
And, as is the case in this Tale of Two Brothers adventure, while Steve's outside, Pete's inside doing finish carpentry around the windows, adding the casings and sills. It looks like he almost has enough of the old stuff saved to do the entire upper floor, and we'll switch to a more modern look in the basement I think. I'll have to check that out with the boss to be sure.

I can also go ahead and order the remaining basement doors; a 5 foot french door for Danny's closet, a 6 foot french door for Kian's closet (biggest closet in the house thank you), and two single doors for the central plant and Danny's room. All on one of my two new Home Despot cards.

And this being Thursday night, it was Tempero do Brasil again, this time I finally got to see Antonio and Bryant do "Mas Que Nada", and H even got up to samba a little for that one. It's actually 1:30 in the morning right now on Friday; for some reason I couldn't sleep. Maybe all that spicy but yummy food.