While Demolition is still going on we meet in our office to go through the LEED checklist adn try to decide - for sure- some of the details that are outstanding. Generally our meetings are with the owner and the wife of teh contractor team and maybe the landscape designer or an appropriate engineer or installer.
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Jon and Dan will be working on the punch list this week.
The shower doors are due to come out on Thursday.
The replacement sashes to meet town code arrived yesterday.
Dana from Dean’s said that they can come to install the fireplace doors either September 3rd or 22nd. Anthia and Sam, if you could let me know if you are going away for Labor Day weekend and if that weekend would work.
Barbara, Phyllis and I met last week to get the checklists in order and work on the manual. Josy can come down once we have the CO and the PV system is up. Anthia and Sam, have you decided on when you would like to install the PV? I want to give Josy a time frame to keep us in mind.
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For this week we will be finishing up the basement.
Peter Petrino will be out to hang the pendants.
Cliff will be out Tuesday to hook up the irrigation pump. Then Chris from Growing Solutions can come out to test his portion. Jon did want Cliff to do a walk through to make sure all of the plumbing was working properly. Anthia and Sam, if you have noticed anything, please let me know so I can tell the guys.
Attached are 2 more options for the parking pad. Our rep said Yankee and Millstone qualify for 3 LEED credits for reflectivity, raw materials and manufacturing. They can also get the tiles down to us in 3-5 days. Anthia and Sam, I attached the first sheet that I had sent over to you. If you could look through the options and let me know on Wednesday which tile you would like to use, then I can order it and have it delivered to the site.
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For this week our guys have been working on completing the basement. They sheetrocked yesterday and will be taping today and tomorrow. They will also be waterproofing the basement floor tomorrow.
Cliff will be out to complete the irrigation hook up this week.
Anthia and I have been working out the pavers for the parking pad and driveway apron. Anthia and Sam, I will send an email tomorrow if there are any price differences with the 4 styles we talked about and also lead times.
Jon will also be working on the punch list and trouble shooting anything that needs tweaking before the final inspection.
While Anthia and Sam are away, Jon and Dan will be touching up all of the paint.
Josy has contacted me about the solar panels. She can come down without them up, but it makes more sense for her if they are up. Let me know what you are thinking for a timeline on those so I can tell her.
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Our guys will be working on the accessories and basement this week. Unfortunately, due to a leak in our store’s floor slab, the engineered floor that we had saved from the garage that we thought we might be able to use in the basement, got wet and moldy and is unusable. It was not enough to do the job, but it is unfortunate that it could not be reused. Let me know what you would like to do with the basement floor. If we were to tile it, it would postpone moving contents in. If we can complete the framing, sheetrocking and taping, then we can get your contents in sooner than later.
Cavaliere needs 25 more pieces of the top rail for the tile in the laundry room. Mayson is out of town and Mary Lynn is looking into it for me. Were the tiles purchased at Fordham or Waterworks? As soon as we get them, then he can install them.
The central vac guys will be out to their scheduled day of Wednesday of this week. I am sorry about the confusion, I was not told that they were coming out on Friday, since I had scheduled this Wednesday.
Pur2o will be out on Friday to finish their installation.
The excavator will be out this week to install the apron drain and finish the driveway.
We are waiting on updates for the shower doors and tempered windows.
Anthia, just in case you need extra help you can try to contact our professional organizer friend, her. She is a sweetheart and has a great eye.
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The 1st and 2nd floors are almost done!
The painter and tilers were out all weekend.
Jon was out all weekend as well installing baseboard and working on hardware.
The laundry room countertop was installed and is getting polished today.
New Canaan Alarm will be out to install the CO2 alarm tomorrow.
Cliff will be out tomorrow to finish up the plumbing.
Peter will be out tomorrow to work on the 3rd floor wires. He did have a question about bulbs. For LEED we should use either LED or CFLs. To do LED would add about $600 to the job. If you would like to see samples he can get some. The cost for CFLs is comparable to those of incandescents which he was going to install.
The central vac company is scheduled for August 3rd. They may be able to come out earlier if their shipment comes in.
Pur2o is scheduled to come out August 5th.
Dean was let go from B&D which muddles the issue of the Merv 13 filters for the 2nd and 3rd floor. Josh the site technician said that units that are currently installed are too small to accommodate Merv 13, they would have to retrofit the units to make them compatible for Merv 13. It is not as easy as just replacing the filter screen. We had checked repeatedly with them that Merv 13 was going in and kept being told that they were. We will not be able to get the 2 points for the Merv 13 filters. Anthia and Sam, how would you like to proceed with this? I can either hold them to the contract and have the retrofit the system, which will add days to the schedule, or request a credit for failing to abide by their contract. Please let me know so that I can get started on the process tomorrow.
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The crown molding for the first floor has been finished. The carpenters are
now completing the baseboard.
The new Paperstone countertop arrived just a few minutes ago. The fabricator
can pick it up tomorrow and start fabrication. Once he has it installed,
Cliff can install the plumbing and then the Cavaliere can tile the
backsplash.
Cavaliere has been on site tiling this past weekend and this week.
The painters are also on site.
The cabinetry install will be complete by early next week.
The Dutch doors have been installed as well as the hardware.
New Canaan Alarm will be out tomorrow to wire the windows and doors.
We are also looking to lay the stones for the driveway at the end of this
week.
There will be 2 site meetings tomorrow. The first will be at 7am with Jon,
Sam and Trillium. The second will be at 10am with Jon, Anthia, Peter and
Tom.
Barbara and Phyllis, if you need to take pictures, feel free to stop by
whenever works for you.
Hello Everyone,
This week is another busy one.
The tiler was on site this weekend and will be on site this week.
Dan was trimming out the 3rd floor and will finish that up this week.
The painter was also on site this weekend and will be back out later on this week after the variety of trades are done doing their portions.
Fordham delivered and is installing the kitchen countertops and fireplace surround.
Cliff will be out toward middle of the week to set more fixtures (he is waiting for the tiler to finish up so he can get his portions done).
Peter will be out throughout the week also installing fixtures.
The back patio is getting finished.
The Dutch doors will be ready for delivery tomorrow (the hardware is in, so Jon and Dan will start installing them as soon as they are on site).
The tub will be getting delivered this week.
Tom D. will be onsite installing cabinetry.
During the fabrication of the laundry room countertop, the hole for the sink was cut too long. I have had to reorder the slab, which has shipped out.
For the temporary CO, we need New Canaan Alarm to finish installing the smoke and CO2 detectors (they also need to finish wiring the doors and windows). The soonest I can get them out is Wednesday the 20th. They said if there are any cancellations they will squeeze us in this week. Since Anthia and Sam have the contract with them, maybe if one of you try calling we can get higher up in the schedule.
Jon is still moving a bit slowly due to the mono. He will be on site managing, but probably will not start carpentry work until mid week. I know this may slow things down but he was in bad shape this weekend and we all need him to recover to get he job done right.
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