Paint, heat and air conditioning

With the walls primed and sheet rock touched up, the painters (To The Edge Painting) return to do two coats of paint.  So much paint goes on in one day (50 gallons or so), that I leave windows open and the heat cranked up to try and dry the place out.  After 2 days, the house dries out enough to bring in the wood flooring from the garage.  We are are shooting for a moisture content in the floor and the sub-floor of about 6% to 9%.  The sub-floor tests out at 7% and the flooring is in the 6% to 9% range.  We wait 2 more days to get the materials even dryer.  The advantage of having very dry flooring and sub-floor are that there will be much less shrinkage and gapping in the final product. 

First Choice Heating and A/C return to install the exterior A/C compressor and do the final installations of the heating system components.

Two kickboard heating units are installed in the kitchen area to provide extra heat for that room.  Our kitchen cabinet layout makes it impossible to install baseboard heaters, so we hide two kickboard unit hides the cabinets and behind the toe kick.  Each cranks out 8,000 BTUs.

To prepare for tile subcontractor, I install the bathroom vanities.  I use a Rotozip to cut out holes for the plumbing in the back of the vanities.  This tool is pretty cool and lives up to the hype that you see in those late night infomercials!  I have also used it for cutting out outlets in sheetrock and it does a super job.  Definitely the tool of the week.  (Don't buy it mail order, it's only $66 at your local Home Depot.)