Day 56 - Office... / Céramique

Isolation refait dans le bureau

Mais dans l'opération un fils réseau a été endommagé...

Notre couloir:

Début de la céramique par Stéphane:

Day 52 - Office.

Voici le bureau avec sa nouvelle isolation.  Il va maintenant faire chaud dans cette pièce!  Nouveau plafond, nouveau mur...  Maintenant la question, c'est comme il y a deux radiateurs, il risque de faire trop chaud! 

C'est Stéphane, un des employés, qui a refait les murs le weekend dernier à un prix interessant!  Merci!

Day 51 - Plâtre et bureau...

Alors ce qui a vraiment avancé cette semaine c'est le plâtre.  On commence à voir à quoi va ressembler le résultat final.   Ça fait vraiment toute une différence:

Par exemple voici deux photos de l'entrée:

Ils ont aussi commencé à bâtir la base de la douche.  Rebecca à la chance de prendre la première douche:

Sinon on pensait que c'était terminé avec le bureau, et bien non!  On a finalement pris la décision de tout arracher les murs pour refaire l'isolation.  Quel catastrophe cette extension!  Alors quelques photos avant qu'ils reconstruisent les murs.  On dirait un gros gâteau...

Qui à faim?

Day 47 - Mur de la cuisine

Désolé ça fait longtemps qu'on n'a pas mis à jour notre Blog...  Nous voilà de retour.  Alors en ce 17 février, ce qui a de nouveau c'est que le mur de la cuisine est finalement posé.  Voilà le résultat:

Camping...

Some of you may wonder about our current living conditions during the renovations.  As previously mentioned, we are living on the downstairs level of Jonathan's dad's condo in downtown Montreal.  As you will see from these photos, we are really "roughing it"...!

Here is the living room and 'mini-bar' area, with our furniture temporarily installed (even my piano!):

This is the staircase that leads upstairs:

This is the bathroom.  Note that some of our bathroom fixtures that we chose were inspired by this bathroom (notably the sink):

Bedroom:

Rebecca's walk-in closet (with some of Jonathan's clothes)

Our combination office / storage room for all of the boxes that are staying unopened during the renovations:

Jonathan's closet:

Laundry room

We consider ourselves very lucky to be able to stay here for several months!

Day 44

Today we had some good and bad news.

Bad news - the sliding door we ordered for the powder room is too thick for the frame that was built.  Unfortunately because doors are custom-ordered, there is pretty much no chance we can return it, so the likelihood is that the frame will have to be adjusted.

The good news is that we saw some new progress in the bathroom - check out the podium for the bath (with the tub temporarily installed) !

Note that the tub is actually deeper than it looks from the side; the floor is built higher and the tub is "sunken" in.

We finally decided to go ahead with the wall insulation in the back room; it would be a shame not to get that done once the rest of the work is happening.  Here are some photos, displaying the walls and also the small amusements that our workers have during the day...

"I will get the flag on Friday"appears to be some reference to a team sport that was to be played later that evening...

Day 42 - New Windows

En cette 42ième journée de travail, ils ont installé les trois nouvelles fenêtres.  Beaucoup mieux que les anciennes...

Salle de bain:

Salle de lavage:

Et finalement notre petite toilette.  Comme on veut voir sur la photo, la structure pour la portes coulissante est terminée.  Il manque plus que la porte...

Day 39 - Encore 10 semaines...

The title of this post is referring to the fact that we will have 10 more weeks of renovations, according to the contractor.

The problem is not necessarily that we want to move back quickly, since we are very comfortable downtown - but unfortunately we had budgeted for about 4 more weeks, not 10.  So, it's Kraft Dinner for the next while, if I can convince Jonathan to let me eat some :-)

Anyway, here are some more photos - the walls and ceilings are almost all in place!

Standing in the dining room/kitchen:

Here I am lusting over our new bathtub (can't wait to actually be in it!):

Our new corridor:

Apparently the workers leave each other notes on various materials: sometimes a notepad, sometimes a piece of drywall...