Another delivery truck, another hassle

So the week started out with more work prepping the guest house shower. Paco and Junior mudded the shower wall. Then they installed the hardiebacker board in the living area and finally mudded the floor out to the entrance. Everything is all nice and level. And that's a good thing.

Dave has been anxiously waiting for the paneling to get here because he wants to install it before the tile guys install the heating grids. Every day the paneling isn't here is another day the tile guys have to wait. Patience, patience, patience.

Friday evening we returned home to find a note from Scott recommending a wheel cleaner for the 50s aluminum pendant lights we thought we'd done a decent job restoring. We took his advice and now, thanks to Scott and Mother, they are even more restored.

Monday morning Scott returned and he and Dave resumed working on the wiring for the lights above the Big I.

We're also encouraged by our blog friend Dana (blog.mid2mod.com) who commented on our last post about the lights, saying they were the "steal of the century." If anyone would know, Dana surely would. Her blog is our go-to encyclopedia for all things MCM. We soooooo want Scott to finish hanging the lights but they're not done yet. Patience, patience, patience.

Tuesday morning, 8am. John arrived with the high density plywood platforms for the bar counter. They needed to be installed before the counter template guy arrived later in the morning.

Tuesday morning, 11am. It's here! It's here! The Plyboo Deco Palm paneling made its way from Taiwan to San Francisco and then off to Sacramento before it went to San Jose on Friday. Today, it finally made it to Steinback Mountain. We had warned the Plyboo folks not to send such a large delivery truck as they did in their delivery of the decking material and, an hour before their noon to 4 delivery window, a very huge truck made its way barely through the portal at the bottom of the hill and all the way up the hill to our front door.

Apparently, getting up the hill was the easy part. Leaving, not so much. After carefully turning his truck around, the driver started down the hill and almost immediately hit the corner of our roof, knocking off a chunk of wood and leaving a half inch gap where the two fascia planks used to join. You'd think he would of stopped, but no, he just kept on going down the hill. Dave then jumped in his van and chased after him. A few minutes later they were back in front of the house taking pictures on their phones. Then a boss was called and a phone call was arranged for tomorrow morning. We'll let you know how that works out.

This morning, as anticipated, the counter template guy also showed up. Since the Big I is so big, and the Dekton only comes in 10 foot sheets, we needed to decide where to seam the two pieces for the bar, the sink area, and the counter on the wall cabinets. Rather than position the seam in the middle, like most people probably would do, we opted for having a full 10 foot length on the entrance side, and an almost 2.5 foot piece at the far end where the drop-in range will be.

Mark showed up in the afternoon and, along with Dave, got his tile guys scheduled for the next few days. Dave and Corey will work on installing the paneling tomorrow and Paco and Junior will start tiling the shower and its ceiling. Dave also had a productive phone call with Angus at Plyboo so he's now very clear on the best way to install the Plyboo Deco Palm paneling. If all goes as planned, they'll have it done in a day so the tile guys can start installing the heating grids on Thursday.

Tuesday afternoon, 3:30. Mike stopped by to check up on the tiling progress. We then showed him the corner of the roof that was attacked by the delivery truck. He's going to do a rough estimate for getting it fixed so we have something to discuss when we talk to the boss tomorrow. We'll keep you posted….

It's almost 4:30 and the tile guys are finally packing up. They've had to take all of their supplies inside as we're expecting rain this evening. And that's a good thing.