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Feb 23, 2003, 1:39 PM

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House Project Update for 22 February 2003

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The exterior painting is done except for some trim and touch-up work. We are beginning to ready the patio for the brick pavers. Interior painting and tile work will start next week (I hope).
Jesus, our first cabinet maker, installed the kitchen cabinets in Martha's apartment. The other wood worker promised the kitchen for Coco's house last week; I'll be calling on him Monday to see where he is with the work.

I knew the cabinet and door work would be expensive and would take some time, but I never dreamed that it would become the biggest headache of the entire project. It has taken 3 months to get the closets (6) for two houses and the kitchen for one with an any-day-now promise of another. All together a good bit less than half the total wood work to be done. At this rate we'll be lucky to be done by the Fourth of July. We are actively searching for two more cabinet makers. The problem is that everybody is busy. Cabinet making is definitely a career opportunity in this area!

I had planned to have wooden baseboards and chair rails in the family room. I’m still hoping for the baseboards (I can make them myself). I have given up on wooden chair rails; I found some nice tile trim pieces to make the rails. We need the chair rails to separate the darker paint of the wainscot from lighter color of the upper walls.

This week's picture story is at www.Rollybrook.com/02-22.htm

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keith

Feb 24, 2003, 10:49 AM

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Re: [Rolly] House Project Update for 22 February 2003

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Ay la llevan!

MexDreamer

Feb 26, 2003, 10:40 PM

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Carpenters are notoriously unreliable!

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This comes from experience of my own. Their work is unparalled and they are considered almost tempermental artistes in the area where we're building but what can you do? I'm leaving it up to our contractor to secure and deal with the carpenter, they are definately in demand and we had to wait quite awhile before he even found someone to do our wood framed screens. And of course I'll have to qualify this statement as my own experience and feedback from people in the village and perhaps not representative of all carpenters in all of Mexico.
BTW-Been lurking but haven't posted a message in probably two years. Love your postings and have been following along since day one. It'll be four years since we bought our property in Nayarit and we'll finally get to stay there in March. We're SO EXCITED! Unfortunately except for the great site I developed initially I have not kept it up. I give you a ton of credit. It's been fun to see.