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Party Time?
Come hell or high water, B and B Party XII will be held here on Halloween. As that day inches ever closer, I look around me and think: 'Oh crap.' Most of the house is covered in dust, the rest of it is covered in plastic. The greatroom has a dozen sheets of drywall laying on the floor, three boxed up appliances, and enough random construction paraphernalia to open up your own hardware store. The new bedroom (a great potential crash place after party) is looking a lot better, but now that the roof is still leaking it's hard to tell what will have to be torn out and redone. Our PM has assured me that his guys will be sweeping up and cleaning up on Thursday, but he's assured me lots of things in the past.If the weather holds out and the retaining wall really is all done on Sunday, the final grade should happen early next week. The goal was then to get the heat pump in and running pre-party. While that is still a possibility, I would no longer call it likely since there would be at most four days to build a base for it, have it delivered, installed, and working correctly.
Fortunately, cleanliness and heat are not two things that are required for a successful B and B Party as previous years have clearly demonstrated. Still, when I look at the room pictured below my first thought is not: Let's Party!
Yay, parties! I can't wait to see everyone! And, of course, the partially completed remodel.
ReplyDeleteI can see the heat pump happening. They just put a plastic pad down to set it on (you would have to request if you wanted an area of lava rock or something under that) and then they drop the heat pump on it. A couple of runs for thermostat wire and cooling tubes and it's pretty much done...especially with new construction.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, Jeeden, sounds like you're toying with cosmic forces there. Plastic? Lava rocks? Cooling tubes!!! Who knows what sort of devilish beings might be called forth by such a mad contraption?
ReplyDeleteOn second thought, this IS the B&B we're talking about... I think you should go for it, Bruce. Do it! Dooooooo iiiiiiittt!
ReplyDeleteOne lesson I've learned over and over again about contruction is just becuase a thing 'can' be done, does not mean a thing 'will' be done. Certainly one week is enough time to grade a lot and install a heat pump, but only if people show up at the appropriate times to do the work, the weather works for you, etc, etc. The guy to do the grading didn't come out until Tuesday and by that time the ground was too wet to grade, so there will be no heat pump for the party. Looks like it's going to be in the upper 70s that day anyway though.
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