Water (?) and Warmth

The well drillers arrived on schedule. And two weeks later the truck is still sitting there. They hit water at 90', but only got a flow of 2gal/min, so need to go deeper. Then something on the truck broke, and they haven't been able to get it fixed yet. They haven't moved the truck because then they would have to start all over again with the well. Sid said we have the largest, most unique lawn ornament in the neighborhood. 

Because we don't have water yet, we also don't have the in-floor heat functional. The furnace is up and running though! Feeling pretty good in there now. The drywall crew would not come until heat was functional, so that was a must-do. 

Delivery of the drywall to the upstairs rooms was through the window! These windows were just barely big enough to pass one pair of sheets at a time through the opening.  Can't blame them a bit for not wanting to carry it up the stairs. That stuff is heavy, and these are 12' long sheets. 

The shop was another story. Smaller windows. Their solution? Cut through the wall! Troy was not happy! He did say it was not a difficult thing to fix, and I think he was mostly angry that they did not call him first- a breach of professional etiquette. 

But now it is all up and looking pretty! Having the big, smooth surfaces really accentuates the angles and I'm LOVIN' it! 

Funny thing about the drywall on the stairs. Since childhood I have disliked open stairs with no risers. Many basement stairs are like this and I was happy to see that the basement stairs in our current house were not. As this house has been built, every time I've gone up and down any of the 3 flights, I've held onto every exposed stud as I went. As soon as the drywall was up, I was trotting up and down without touching anything! I was all the way upstairs before I even gave it a thought. I can't even explain this to myself, much less to anyone else.
 
There's two things I want to ask Troy about. First is drywall around the shower. I thought that area had to get cement board of some kind. 

I was NOT impressed with the cuts around the bathtub upstairs. Did a bit of online research and I THINK it may get a border of thinner drywall over the flange, and then will look a lot better. For now I'll wait and see what happens. Surely Troy won't let that stand as-is! Overall the results in the entire house look sloppy. I hope whoever does the tape and mud gives a bit more attention to the job. 

For the most part, we've been very pleased with the crews that we've met. This crew was an exception. They have spilled food and left it laying there for days, spilled coke in several places on the floor upstairs in the shop, left half-empty pop cans all over. And turned the heat up to 90! (That may not have been them, but I will ask Troy if there was some reason for it to be that high.) We turned it down to 60. 

The sample arrived of the flooring I ordered. The store was out of samples and had a couple sent out for me. This is all of our choices so far. From the top left: floors for bathrooms and mudroom; accent tile for shower; chip is the bathroom counter; large tile is the shower walls; LVP flooring for the whole house; and at the bottom is my kitchen cabinets. All of these things will be installed by us. 

I ordered my cooktop this week. We paid $600 instead of the MSRP of $1400. (Home Depot sells it for $850). We saw the 36" version of this stove at BMO when we bought bathroom cabinets, and liked it better than the ones we'd seen at a local store, so searched out the best price for the 30".