Movement

I'm finally starting to feel like we're getting there, or better, we will get there. 
Now that the Estrich is in, the plumbers have been working hard this week to connect our heat pump and air filtration.  Connecting the heat pump is very important because it is necessary to run it to dry the Estrich.  The plumbers plan on a test run of the heat pump on Monday. 
Today when we came into the house, we even had a working air filtration system.  It was on "full," so it was a little louder than I had expected, but it was so cool to hear our house working!  For the first time, it really felt like this house, that has almost been a year in the making, will one day, be a functional home.
We also met with the main plumber, "Cute Tile Guy," and Mr. B.  It was good to be talking about tiles, which put us towards the final stages of the house.  We even have an estimate of the last week in August/ first week September to start tiling.  "Cute Tile Guy" needs about 2 weeks to do the tiling. 
Tonight's meeting took a lot more time than I expected, and we had a lot to get through.  I had a lot of questions to answer.  "Are you sure that you won't have any tiles on the walls in the master bath?"  I hope I'm doing the right thing here by not tiling the walls in the master bath, well, I did agree that we need a backslpash of sorts around the bathtub, but I hope it looks okay.   My favorite comment today came from Mr. B, who said that the tile place commented that they never had such varied tiles in one house before.  Wonderful!  I think, *hope* that it will all look okay.  But, the master bath is supposed to have a very sophisticated, "master" feel, and the children's bath should be much more whimsical, and the powder room is a powder room, a room where you can really be daring and different.  Do all the bathrooms need to go together?  I HOPE NOT!

I explained that we do not need tile on the walls in the master bath, nor in the children's bath, but will have them half-way up the walls in the powder room.  We had to decide on the pattern for laying the tile on the floor in the master bath and the powder room, which will both be tiled with rectangular tile, we chose to have the tiles laid out in a "wild" pattern, meaning that the grout lines don't hit each other.  In the children's bath, we currently have chosen a "wood look," tile, so this tile is installed to look like parquet flooring.  The bathroom in the cellar is no big deal to me, because it is really more of an emergency toilet and our rinse off shower. 

We also spent quite a bit of time with the plumber, discussing the mini walls that need to be built to cover some existing plumbing.  We need to have a half-wall in the master bath behind the toilet and the vanity.  In the children's bath, we need to have a wall built between the shower and the washer and dryer.  There were more little intricacies that need to be clarified, but those were more between "Cute Tile Guy" and the plumber. 

Overall, I was very pleased with the meeting, but was left a little uneasy.  What if the bathrooms look bad?  We left it that Mr. B will call the tile showroom for an appointment when I return from home.  I think I have a lot of work to do before this appointment!