Its been a full week. I finished the flooring in our "West Wing" and moved on to the Laundry room which I finished Friday. There are still two or three partial strips needed in doorways and at the transition from tile to wood in our big hall.

Thursday was a busy day as our electrician came early to finish the basement lights & hooked up the generator box by the West covered porch. He used a clever approach that involves an outside box to plug the generator into with a breaker on our main panel. there is a sliding metal lock on the main panel that only allows the generator breaker to be turned on when the main breaker is turned off. Wiring this way meets code & only costs around $150-$200. Other electricians bid an isolation device at around $1700-$2000. Our electrician's solution is elegant & fail safe.

When the electrician left, two plumbers arrived & they spent most of the day installing the remainder of our bathroom fixtures upstairs & in the small bathroom. They finished moving the pot filler to its new location and started the hookup of our "dog bath station" in the garage but were waiting for a few parts still & are scheduled to return Monday. The faucett for our jetted tub was a floor model and came mounted on a wooden display shelf. I mounted the shelf for a faucet base at our dog bath station. The bath was intended to be portable & used outside but we are plumbing it into a permanent location. Late in the day, I repaired sheetrock around the pot filler & did the first two layers of mud to cover the repair.