Starting another week

So, we're about to start a big week. By the end of the day Friday, we had about 45% of the shingles done. The entire back was done and a small portion of the front was done. The front roof is larger, though, so not quite half. Also, the sunroom is yet undone. Tomorrow is supposed to be a nice day, so hopefully the roofers can finish the whole thing. Also on Friday, a lot of the ceiling strapping was completed on the second floor. Only a bit of Brittany's room was not done. They installed the attic access box in Karen's closet. It is very much like the one we have now, which means access will be for emergencies only, or at least very well planned projects.

On tap for this week is the installation of windows. We hope they will be delivered tomorrow so they can get right to it. We have a walk-through scheduled with the electricians and lighting guys and with the plumbers. I don't think there is much to do with the plumbers other than to say where the shower head should go on the two showers and to confirm the placement of everything else. I think we might have to show them where we would like the outside faucet. Other than that, a bathroom is a bathroom and it needs certain things that have certain places - right?

We got a good deal of packing done this weekend - we think we might be to 80%, not including tear-down of some of the furniture. We're trying to figure out what must be torn down, what can be torn down, and what can't be. The beds in the kids' rooms, for example, must be. They are too big to go down the stairs completely assembled. But we will tear them down to a few pieces as possible to make it easy to put it all back togther. The kitchen table can be torn down - the leaf comes out, of course, and the legs can be removed. The coffee table is all one piece, it is already as small as it can get.

This is not yet the home stretch for the move-out, but we're getting close.