Plumbing rough-in begins

Stairs? And drains

For the upcoming 5 minute drain inspection, we had to install temporary stairs to the basement (that's right before they are ripped out by the concrete guys!).  Luckily I always seem to have some stair segments laying around, so it wasn't a huge investment :-).

Tony, Mario and Rui were in today to start the drain system.  Hopefully we can finish up tomorrow.

Water/sewer upgrade

There's a time to compress the schedule, and a time to leave breathing room.  I've compressed this week, for a number of reasons.  I've been lucky enough to build some good relationships with key trades that can sometimes delay things for some time - today, CoXCo, the City subcontractor, was nice enough to jump a huge queue in order to do my sewer/water upgrade on site.

Doing this meant I was potentially pissing off the waterproofing guy, and subsequently everyone else (even the crane guy to remove the forms...which should have been done yesterday).  To make a long story short, the day worked out ok, though now I've put even more pressure on the schedule for the rest of the week.  Fingers crossed!