This post on Thursday would have complained that progress was slow-going. The walls got a coat of primer, so have begun to look almost normal.
Plus the fan installation began...and maybe got completed. We're just waiting for a call from our roof guy to explain exactly what was needed and how far he got. Oh, and what we owe him, of course. See, when we realized that any ceiling fan would vent directly into the attic, our bathroom remodelers proposed just hooking the fan up to a hose that would vent somewhere into the middle (high portion) of the attic and then, at our convenience, we could hire someone else to cut a vent in the roof and attach the hose. It sounded logical, but as we did more research (i.e. read things on the Internet and talked to my much more knowledgeable parents), we became uncomfortable with the idea of leaving this unresolved to build up moisture in the attic.
Fortunately, we have an awesome roof guy who agreed to work with the contractors to at least make sure they used a hose with a diameter he could work with and leave it positioned where he could reach it. He explained that he was busy this week but would come next week to actually construct the vent pipe. Oh, and he quoted us a very very reasonable price. (Deep breaths all around.) So we put him in touch with our bathroom people and hoped that they would talk amongst themselves and reach a conclusion.
Then Thursday we came home to discover that not only have he contacted our bathroom contractors but he had come by to work with them, went up on the roof, and installed a vent (we can't actually see it from the ground because of the roof angle and height at that point). So we may be all done. But since we haven't actually talked to him, we're still hanging on the final details. But, in the end, we have a fan. And a fan that actually blows things somewhere that isn't harmful!
Otherwise, that was it for Thursday, so it was pretty anticlimactic to come home to. Well that changed on Friday. Roberto had finished all the tiling! The walls look beautiful and go from the bathtub clean up to the ceiling.
The floors are cut exactly like we asked, in a diamond pattern to offset the up and down lines of the shower area.
We did end up finding one thing that we asked to change. I'm not sure if you can tell from this picture, but the tile and the bullnose grid lines are all in sync below the glass accent tiles. Once our tiler got to the glass tiles, he just kept laying bullnose tiles straight up, so the lines get out of sync (they actually get offset by exactly half a tile, since our glass tiles are 6'' and our square tiles are 12''). We didn't care if they were in sync or not (completely staggered, random looking or exactly lined up to the mid-point or exactly to the gridlines) but it bothered us that they weren't consistent the whole way up. So we called our designer last night and requested that he ask the tiler to remove the last 3 bullnose tiles (6, really, since the same thing is on the other side of the tub) and cut new ones to line up exactly with the squares. Now I feel like one of those whiney home owners who micromanages every detail...Oh well, even though the shower curtain will block the bullnoses anyway, that misalignment would probably bug us over time, so it's worth fixing now.
No one can claim these guys aren't hard working. They were on such a roll yesterday that they called to ask if they could please work the weekend, which could result in finishing as early as Tuesday. Today they are going to grout and paint, which is good because I really want to peek in and learn about grouting (next step for us, once this bathroom is done, is to regret the downstairs shower ourselves). Hopefully the tile adjustment won't put them too far behind.
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