(no subject)

Jordan texted me: passed electrical inspection.
Pending: mechanical (hvac), framing, and he says the slab gets inspected Thursday.

I'm curious to see if he's replaced the main water line - will check, because that is definitely in the bill and made of lead.

My mom visits this week (today) and I'm planning to show her the place since the work started - last time she saw it was with walls and plastic floors.

When I first got the house I was all kinds of concerned about whether the floors had asbestos and if wood floors underneath could be saved. I tagged all sorts of crappy fixtures for reuse. Tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars later...

I visited and was mildly annoyed at all the things I left there that were damaged. I felt stupid for having underestimated the scale of the destruction, but on reflection I feel less idiotic. HGTV little renovations really didn't show me this scale, and I didn't realize the whole place would be done at once (or that all the walls would go down). I sort of pictured walls still there and going room by room. I was wrong.