Crawling to the Finish...This is No Olympics

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At the end of our last blog we wrote "This coming week we are hoping for water, final plumbing, mirrors, final electrical, final countertop finishing, and retaining wall footings (and maybe even the wall itself.)" Ha! To be fair, we had retaining wall footings at the end of the week. And the mirrors are installed. But everything else is just laughing at us.

It would be another two weeks before the concrete sub was back on site working. They were on site during that time taking measurements, drilling holes, etc. And working off-site making some sort of brace for the bottom of the retaining wall. More details on that in the next post.

Water main work began with the vacuum truck digging more holes, this time in the street. The boring subcontractor did his thing, digging under the street utilities from 4th to 5th street and then pulled the pipe up through the tunnel.

An exciting start to the project! The city stopped by, our neighbors asked questions and our civil engineer, Geoff, was on hand. Geoff predicted we'd have by the end of the following week. That was three weeks ago.