Septic is IN

Wow, last week was very productive! Many thanks to Rob, Kent and our crew who gave up time off on Holy Week to put in our septic.

This is mostly a photo blog, so no real text to add. But the system is in, so one more item in getting our place to its first version of habitable.

One of the things we need to begin to scope out are details of our grey water system. But the urgency right now is low, with other priorities of the place to be done.

Our finishing plans are beginning to come together. Our 2009 trips are likely to be 4th of July week and Christmas week. Our work schedules make combining with the other holidays unworkable. But our desire is to be able to stay in our place over the fourth of July week, and enjoy being there to get things done. We hope to complete bedroom/bath #2 (lower right, next to the stair) before 2009 ends. We are intentionally deferring bedroom/bath #3 until 2010 since it is the shower chase that will be how we will manage electrical for Air Conditioning if we pursue that. Both trips this year (after the April trip) will be spent getting bedroom/bath #2 completed, and of course other details upstairs.

Assuming we're done on this trip, we can begin making our upper space rentable to vacationers.

So that's the report this week, updates within the week!


Ricardo y Jeeeem

Kitchen going in...

Hola!



The significant update is the kitchen going in just going into Holy Week in Costa Rica. The cabinets were delivered on Friday April 3rd. This first photo shows all the the items in Room #3 (Selva) since that is our standard staging room in the place. That is, Selva will be the last room completed.

While the windows are not yet in, all is weather secure and windows are next on the list of things happening, so the next Blog post should be showing progress putting those in place.

It is true, these cabinets have legs! They are safely off the floor and away from spills. Below them are these beautiful stainless panels that can be popped off for cleaning.

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The material, whose pattern you can see here, is a man-made material with a simulated wood finish. This particular cabinet is in the photo not only because it is a good closeup to see the finish, but that door pull in the middle is actually a really cool cabinet design. Inside is an S shaped part that holds a bunch of stuff.

This is the virtually completed cabinet installation. We think you can follow the locations of the refrigerator, stove with microwave above. The sink will be just under that wall cabinet on the left.

Windows should be going in shortly, no later than next week. I'll have another update on the 12th.

Ricardo y Jeeeem