Crawling to the finish line

So last week the mirror and glass guy was supposed to be here to install the mirrors in the bathrooms and the glass in the upper cabinets.  As luck would have it his little girl got sick and they had to take her to the hospital and they do not know what is wrong.  This is a small local company and apparently they have 1 installer.  I am really sorry that his child is ill and I cannot imagine how he feels, but 1 installer?  Come on.....

The company had no idea when he was gonna be back so I'm hoping they have a plan B.  Of course we can move in without mirrors and glass in the cabinets but sure would be nice to have them especially when we WERE supposed to have them.

All the plumbing is finished but it wasnt as easy as it was supposed to be.  And here is the reason why....

Most sinks are made with an "overflow" hole.  And this "overflow" is a separate section of the sink and goes into another compartment in the drain.  My sinks do not have an " overflow" hole and therefore do not need a drain with an "overflow" portion on it, if it had that then youd have water leaking out of the drain all the time.  I did not realize when I bought my faucet sets that all the drains had the "overflow" section.  Took a while to figure out what was going on but we did and ended up having to order 4 new drains.  All done, all installed.  Everything good on that front.

The cabinet makers were back to the measure the fridge and freezer for their custom panels.  It was much easier with them in place to see how they related to the other cabinets. So they are working on them now.

I told you before we have a little electrical work that needs to be finished so Bob and I decided to tackle a couple of the projects ourselves because we have time and it will save maybe an hour or 2 less if the electrician ever gets here.  

So we installed a "puck" light.

I dont know why they didnt install it when they were installing the others but they didnt and these new LED's go in really easily.  

We also decided to install the undercounter lighting.  And instead of the whole fixture thing we went with a LED light strip.

This is what it looks like.  You can hook several of them together to get a long line of light.  It does have to have a power source but we had that covered with the plug for the microwave and the other side has the plug for the fridge.  Lines are small and can be easily hidden and the light they give off is so even and bright.  I'm super happy with how it turned out.

This is with the room lights on.

This is with the room lights off.

Super happy with this project and another item we can check off the list.  All that's left now is to get the electrician here to finish hooking up the water heater in the master bathroom.  Add another 240 volt line to the other water heater and hook it up and then put in the 2 over the sink lights in the master bathroom.  I should mention here that the electrician who is coming is someone who has worked here when Ronnie was in charge and he still works for Ronnie so I can only get him on the weekends.  Hopefully this weekend.  Then once the panels get installed on the fridge and freezer there is nothing to hold us back from turning those suckers on and completely moving in.  We can live without mirrors and glass in the cabinets for now but I'm gonna call Monday to see where they are and if we have any hope of installation soon.  Like I said....crawling...