Retaining Wall - the wall itself is completed. There are some mistakes to correct, acid wash, backfill, clean up and a few adjustments to make. One good day of work could complete this. The steps near the pool, and the large set of steps are major concerns. F came over June 29 and says he will take care of it. We have had 4 good weather days, but no one has showed up to do anything. F's stone guy will be there supposedly Saturday July 3. I'm holding my breath. I'm waiting for a tractor to show up. If it gets done at all, it will not be before July 10.
Pool - The pool surface is being prepped for tile installation. The cracks in the plaster have been repaired and the piers to prevent further sinkage have been installed. I laid out all the tiles in the most appealing way for the tile man to install them. I have a good feeling about what is going on here. The tile man is Manuel. July 10 is the promised date. July 24 is more realistic.
Pool Plumbing - Caesar and Gregorio are doing the plumbing and electrical work. I dont see anything happening with the plumbing repair. Jeremy is getting onto him so this should start any day now. Im predicting July 7 completion.
Pool Lighting - Caesar did get the lighting plan completed. There is a controller on the wall and it looks like it works good and will be bright. Wow, done in one day! Way to go, Caesar. June 26!
Pavillion - June 28, Jeremy and Mike and I went over the specs for the Pavillion. It will have six columns and three A frame trusses. It will include electrical sockets for fans or other appliances. August 10 if nothing goes wrong. Right.
Landscaping is complete at this point, but we will want them to come back around July 13 to install 8 pallets of St. Augustine grass. Does anything sound hotter than July 13?
Sprinkler System - After a very rocky start for the front yard sprinkler system, we may actually have a working system. Mike F. Came out on Monday the 28th and even though it rained a little, he went through every valve and every sprinkler head and got them working. It's not good as new but almost. We are going to wait till next year (at least) to do anything in the back. $297.50. What a bargain! Mike gets the hero award so far.
Windows - No word recently from the window man, I'm not counting him out yet, but it's not looking good. 2022
Shop Bathroom - Daniel has me down for the week of August 11
Hole filling and dirt spreading - RS made three appointments (of his choosing) and was a no-show and I have not heard from him. I'm scratching him from the list. Uprite is supposed to spread out all the dirt, and we have had 4 good days in a row with no tractor showing up. July 10
Garage Cleaning - Sharlette has helped and it's made a big difference. An hour of garage cleaning would make a huge dent. Im going to get with it June 30 - July 3
The Pastor's Yard - I mowed and weedeated June 24/25. I started again June 29, partial weedeated, killed weeds, mowed some tight spaces and took down the trash can. They are returning July 7, so I sure want to have everything looking great by then. My attack plan is to do a lot more weed eating then edge and mow on the 5th and 6th. I should probably mow June 30, and then again on July 5/6. This has been good therapy to combat the negative vibes of the retaining wall and I want to make this look really sharp.
Retaining Wall - Additional rock has been delivered this morning and I'm hoping to see rock men there today. And as soon as I typed that, the phone rang and I was informed that they will not be here today, but they will be here tomorrow, the 17th and stay till it was completed. I appreciate that. Except that they didn't show up till the 21st.
Pool - Two pool workers are inside the pool right now preparing the walls. (I'm really not sure what they're doing, but they are there!)
Landscaping - OK, we are starting off with a communication problem. They used brown metal edging instead of the green that was already there. Pull up the brown and replace with green. Just ordered 96 feet of green edging.
Retaining Wall - this has slowed down immensely, not only because of the rain but for I dont know what other reasons - but it has slowed down. Work is to begin again on June 16 and should be getting close to completion by June 18. That is not going to happen because there are several days of ground grading, and clean up and I do not see this all being cleaned up in a day or two. My neighbors would really appreciate this getting completed.
Pool - Work was started this week (June 14) and it is going to be very slow as there are several levels of repair to be done. I am estimating July 5 at the soonest to be completed and I will be satisfied if EVERYTHING is done and cleaned up by Aug. 1
Landscaping began on June 15. This could be the best value and the most on time project we are doing. I certainly hope so. We are getting a new rock edge (on the inside of the sidewalk) and a metal edge (on the outside). Some drainage work is being done as well.
Windows - No word recently from the window man, I'm not counting him out yet, but it's not looking good.
Sprinkler system - bad mojo for the sprinkler system. I bought a new controller because I knew the old one was fried. JC came and hooked up the controller, but there were problems with valves in the yard that we cannot locate. C came over and located 8 valves, but cannot complete the job. Four contractors from the Good Contractors list said they would not come to Crandall. Mike said he would work on it and he will get back to me on June 16 to let me know for sure, but he has us down to work on it on June 28. This is going to end up costing more than the original system.
Shop bathroom - DM has us on his calendar for the shop bathroom. I'm counting on some time in August.
Hole filling and bush removal - I talked to RS yesterday and he is going to try and remove two sets of bushes and fill tree holes and misc low spots this weekend June 19-20. I'm looking forward to a good job from him.
Garage Cleaning - I cleaned a little bit last week. Need to throw some more stuff away and organize a little.
