Three subcontractors called me in today...

I had a very busy day at the AT&T office. My PRESIDENT was in from Dallas, so we had internal meetings with him. (How can he be younger than me and be a PRESIDENT????) Also, a couple of customer meetings were on my calendar. I got a call from the electrician at 8:45 saying that her workers were at the house to install the light fixtures, but they didn't have any light BULBS. Well, I had no idea that I had to buy the bulbs for the electrician!! At first she asked that I drop everything and run to the store, buy bulbs, and get to the house with them. Twenty minutes later, she called me back to say her workers moved on to another site. They "may" be back later this week... but maybe not. Geez......

The stone company called to tell me that they began installing the new exterior stone. Do we like it? Do we want to stick with the "standard mortar" or go with the "colored mortar"? Obviously, Lee and I have no idea what mortar choices we have available to us.... we just want to see the stone and minimize how much you see the mortar. I think the guy was afraid to install too much, given we just ripped off a bunch of different material. (Our $3,000 mistake... :)And then, TWO calls from the "tile guys" came in...... Lee and I spent a good 90 minutes at the house two weeks ago marking down the outline of where carpet and tile should be installed. Evidently, the line is gone. So the installers worked "off of blueprints" to determine the space. Hmmm.... that can't be good. I told him that we'd mark it off again on Friday (once Lee is back in town). Frankly, that particular tile won't be here until 8/4, so they shouldn't rush us!

Here is a pic of the floor by our lower level bar area.... I LOVE it!!!

And then, there is the stone floor of the shower.... The tile installer called me to make sure we were "OK with" the stone floor of the master bathroom shower. Evidently, the stone pieces do not come in flush square pieces... they are odd shaped. He thinks you can see the "square-ish" outline of each piece... but he also doesn't like the look of real stone either. So maybe we shouldn't give his opinion any credence???

This is what a single piece looks like....

And what our shower floor may look like...

We just have to get through the floor install, and then our builder will/should manage the rest. I guess this is worth the money we saved going through a different flooring company than what the builder normally uses....

And lastly, no calls from the general contractor... but they installed the arches on the garage, and finished the garage interior, and began the installation of the wood trim around our windows. I love the way the windows are looking!!!! It looks like all of the interior doors were delivered and are ready go too...

Our flooring guy says that everything, other than the main "concrete connection" tile will be done by 8/1/08. And ALL tile will be done by 8/8. I can't wait!!!