Day 5
Friday April 28
Again, the doorbell sounded at 7 a.m., and Jeff ignored it while Randy slept
through it. But this time it rang again at about 7:20, so Jeff answered it. A
worker wanted the garage door opened to get access to power, as there is no
power on the outside of the front of the house. We have left the side entry door
to the garage unlocked so the workers could come in and out as they needed, but
either this one did not realize that, or he didn't want to come in on his own.
Jeff first opened the large garage door and then the worker suggested the small
one would be better.
The patio border was started and nearly completed. The patio now seems really
big. On Monday the patio had been framed by the workers before the contractor
came back to meet with us. It was, it seemed, only slightly larger than we had
imagined and did not warrant reframing. In our previous talks with the
contractor, we had discussed putting some kind of in-laid stone border around
the patio to make it nicer and a little less plain. We had already drawn out our
plan and did not re-draw it to include this border, but we thought it, like
other discussions we had with the contractor at the same time, became part of
the work order. However, when we discussed this again on Monday (Day 1) after
the patio had been framed, we found out that the contractor had not factored
this item into our work order (the written estimate we had confirms this; there
is no mention of it). On Monday when we learned of this misunderstanding, the
contractor said it would be no trouble to revise things and add the patio border
(and bands in the walkways made of the same stones), and we decided to do that.
We assumed the border for the patio would be on the inside of what was already
framed. However, the border was added to the outside of that framework, and we
are unsure if the framework had been redone and moved inwards to accommodate the
extra space on the outside.
The plum tree arrived today. The reason for us separately purchasing it and
arranging for delivery is because the landscape contractor is not an expert on
fruit trees. We wanted a semi-dwarf, self-fruiting plum tree with sweet
delicious fruit. The contractor suggested we find one and get it, and he would
plant it for us.
Shaping and laying the stones
for the patio border
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View from above
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Got all the way around to here
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This wire for lighting must have been
laid before the concrete since it goes
under the patio, but we didn't notice
it until now
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The plum tree is temporarily
residing out front, where it
actually looks well suited
