When I arrived at the job site around noon today, I was surprised to see the asphalt had been repaved, and all the barricades had been removed.

I didn't have much time, so all I did was work on fixing door hinges that were installed poorly. I counted about 36 doors on the plans. It's going to take me a while to check and (if necessary) fix them all....

We met with Daniel Mendoza at the job site this morning to go over his quote and discuss a few of the details. We'll let him know early next week, just how much of it we would like him to do. Most likely, we'll have him complete all of the irrigation, trenching, and hardscape (front and back) and just the plants in the front yard. We'll probably put off doing any of the planting in the back yard.

I was able to finish vacuuming and wiping down the master bathroom this afternoon, so now I'm all done with my cleaning.

I also worked on a bunch of other stuff:

• bath #1: I cleaned the tub.
• bath #2: I fixed the door which wouldn't lock, and I added a missing screw to the strike plate.
  
• bath #3: I cleaned the tub.
• bedroom #2: I added a missing lock pin, and fixed its handle which was sticking.
• craftroom: I started to fix six of the screws in the hinges which were stripped and couldn't be tightened.

Here are some random pictures since I haven't posted any in a few days.

The painted garage door, same as the body color with white trim.

The kitchen cabinet knobs and pulls. These are the Alno hardware that cost about $7 each! Pardon the sawdust; I'm not cleaning the kitchen (or any other part of the first floor) until the hardwood floor installers finish their last coat.

Bath #2 knobs and pull. These are the sub $2 Lowes specials!

Other things going on (or not)....

Bonanza Heating and Air Conditioning installed only one of the two air conditioners last week. I don't know when they'll be back to install the other one.

Carlos, with Alpine Construction, never came back to patch the asphalt. I don't remember if Brad wanted me to call him -- oh well, Brad can take care of that next week, since he gets back this weekend. :-)

I don't know what happened to SolarCity. I called Sebastian last Thursday and he said he would get us scheduled to install the inverter. But I haven't heard a peep from them....

Details / Standards of Excellence called me today to ask when they should come out and install the appliances. I told them to call Brad next week.

Notes to myself (and Brad):

I want to make sure the two outlets above the vanity in bath #2 are GFI protected. I noticed that neither one is a GFI outlet, but maybe there's GFI outlet in the circuit upstream from them?

CB Showers needs to come back and adjust the shower door in the master bathroom. It's bumping into the glass partition.

Two of the master bathroom vanity lights are loose. It looks like the screws were too long, so the electrician just cut them shorter. Unfortunately that ruined the threads, and now the nut won't catch on them and can't be tightened. Also it looks like they used a pair of pliers to try and tighten the (decorative) nuts so now they're all scratched up....

I finished cleaning most of the second floor today. The only room left is the master bathroom. Hopefully I'll get to that tomorrow.

Dana came to the job site at about 10:30 this morning, and we gave him all the cabinet hardware to install. In the afternoon, when he finished, he said to me, "I didn't think I'd be here until 4 PM!" It took him a little more than five hours to install the 130+ knobs and pulls, or only about 2-1/2 minutes per handle -- not bad!

Today I finished wiping down all the counter tops in the basement. There was a thick layer of dust covering everything. I also started vacuuming the second floor bathrooms and bedrooms.

I installed another pair of speakers in the master bathroom and a couple more hinge door stops, and I fixed the manual lock for the garage door (the old one was broken off -- it looked like someone had opened the garage door while it was bolted closed).

Dana called and said he could start installing the cabinet hardware -- drawer pulls and cabinet door knobs -- tomorrow morning. It was perfect timing because we received the Alno hardware for the kitchen today (along with the Alno towel bars for the master bathroom). We had already purchased all the other hardware from Lowes.

This morning I looked around in Brad's temporary "office" and found the keys to the interior Emtek door locks, so I was able to get into the study without having to break down the door!

I finished vacuuming the basement and installed some speakers in the patio and the master bedroom. I also went to Home Depot and picked up a bunch of light bulbs for the various light fixtures. In all but the master bathroom, I'm using compact fluorescent bulbs. That's 18 light bulbs!

The asphalt in the street still hasn't been filled yet. I don't know if Carlos has forgotten to do it, or if it's scheduled for later this week.

Someone (probably Alpine Construction) had come by earlier in the morning and removed most of the barricades blocking the new sidewalk. They left just the ones on the street where the asphalt hasn't been replaced yet.

The landscapers showed up briefly this morning and compacted the driveway again.

I continued to clean up the basement. I finished most of it, but unfortunately, the door to the study is locked, and the keys Brad gave me, do not fit the lock. So I checked the other locks in the house, and it turns out the keys he gave me are for the exterior Emtek door locks. The interior door locks are supposed to be keyed differently; I think Brad forgot to give me those keys.

Just before I left today, I decided to try again, to empty the water from the whirlpool tub. It turns out the Mountain Plumbing waste overflow and drain works fine. The plumber had put duct tape over the drain, and that was preventing me from emptying the water!

This morning the painters painted the columns, front door casing, and garage door.

Here's a picture of the laundry room. Yesterday, I removed all the protective paper on the floor and the plastic covering the counter top (I hope Brad doesn't mind :-); I really wanted to see what the room will look like in its finished form). I also wiped down all of the cabinets and cleaned the floor.

I did the same to the guest bathroom and powder room today.