Today is going to be a tough day (but not in the manual labor sense of the word “tough”).

When the tile guy started installing the tile he thought the shower hardware may need to come out from the wall a bit more in order to properly fit the trim. He measured it and said we were going to “just get by” but he didn’t factor in a non-level wall. So, once he leveled the wall with mud, the shower hardware was too far into the wall to connect the shower trim. Now, we need to figure out how to get into the wall and pull the pipes/hardware out without tearing the house apart (or the expensive ass tile he already set). I feel I will be overseeing this job for a couple of hours, although they are insisting it is only going to take a half-hour.

I would like to trim the screen downstairs and finish installing our temporary railings (get the ones there now to code) on the back porch bringing us one step closer to getting our “permiso de uso” or “certificate of occupancy.”

I am going to get Jerry to finish up any little miscellaneous work around the house (the little things add up quick) while I am overseeing the plumbing demolition and then we are both heading over to home depot. I am going to buy all the wood I need for the trim/railings and I am going to get Jerry to grab what he needs to stucco (smooth finish) the back of the house in the porch area so it looks the same as the front porch finish. I into the symmetry thing.

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