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So. Much. Driving. Also, dependencies.
Jul. 1st, 2024 11:00 pmI drove out to Florence to attend the meeting in person and walk around the concrete. Lovely. Since the architect has not been reading his email, I brought him up to speed on the door selection progress (Simpson, 762, quarter sawn red oak). He wants to revisit the maple choice for the hardwood; I’m like, why. It’s fine.
I picked A. up at school in the afternoon, so I think I spent between 5 and 6 hours driving yesterday.
I keep asking flooring questions, but have mostly been avoiding committing to anything in the pool room until after we do the pool tour. And of course this was the wrong choice. The HVAC guy wants some decisions about drains made. He has the idea to make the drain shape different so that we cannot confuse which drains where (daylight vs. septic). This is a great idea! However, currently, the pool room has tile as the flooring, and he wanted to know if it was 3/8ths or an inch (which I think is 10 vs 20 mm when you are looking at tile but whatever). I was like, damn it, I don’t want tile, but I for sure don’t need the extra thick tile, so assume 3/8ths. And then I went searching for rubber pool decking, because I had this extremely vague recollection of walking on pool decks that weren’t _hard_, but couldn’t come up with any specifics, and I then learned about Soft Roc, Soft Crete, Rubber Stone, Rubaroc, and a bunch of other rubber + stuff options, some trowel on, some pour on, often used on top of a pre-existing deck, and NONE of them have installers in Massachusetts, and few of them have installers in New England and before you go, duh, cold, it’s not hard finding installers anywhere in Canada. J. is now looking into it, and she ran into what I ran into (and she thought what I thought, which is someone ought to franchise, because look at the fucking opportunity here, and all these people want more franchises out there), so I told her that I’d be completely okay with flying people in to do in the install if that is what it takes but she wants to better understand how this stuff drains, first. She’s otherwise entirely in favor of the idea, for all the reasons I latched onto it (safe surface as it is not slippery AND it’s less hard if you do fall, acoustically it has to be way better than tile or most other options in a space that is very acoustically challenging).
They’re gonna buy us some time on the drain selection by blocking off the area around the drain, which is great. I just keep running into these things where I can tell we need to make the changes at some point, but I’m still trying to figure out what’s practicable and will help with acoustics and similar. And I cannot for the life of me pin down the dependencies so I know what needs to be figured out first / earliest / by when. It is increasingly clear that literally no one knows. The architect could know better than anyone else, but he’s already so overwhelmed it’s just ridiculous.
It’s fine, tho. I’m finding amazing options for flooring that are going to make this space so much more comfortable acoustically. I’m very excited. And J.’s looking into alternate flooring vendors than the one who did the pricing round that had so much tile / hardwood, because the cork choices there were limited to nonexistent, and I reallllly want cork in the entry if I can get it.
I picked A. up at school in the afternoon, so I think I spent between 5 and 6 hours driving yesterday.
I keep asking flooring questions, but have mostly been avoiding committing to anything in the pool room until after we do the pool tour. And of course this was the wrong choice. The HVAC guy wants some decisions about drains made. He has the idea to make the drain shape different so that we cannot confuse which drains where (daylight vs. septic). This is a great idea! However, currently, the pool room has tile as the flooring, and he wanted to know if it was 3/8ths or an inch (which I think is 10 vs 20 mm when you are looking at tile but whatever). I was like, damn it, I don’t want tile, but I for sure don’t need the extra thick tile, so assume 3/8ths. And then I went searching for rubber pool decking, because I had this extremely vague recollection of walking on pool decks that weren’t _hard_, but couldn’t come up with any specifics, and I then learned about Soft Roc, Soft Crete, Rubber Stone, Rubaroc, and a bunch of other rubber + stuff options, some trowel on, some pour on, often used on top of a pre-existing deck, and NONE of them have installers in Massachusetts, and few of them have installers in New England and before you go, duh, cold, it’s not hard finding installers anywhere in Canada. J. is now looking into it, and she ran into what I ran into (and she thought what I thought, which is someone ought to franchise, because look at the fucking opportunity here, and all these people want more franchises out there), so I told her that I’d be completely okay with flying people in to do in the install if that is what it takes but she wants to better understand how this stuff drains, first. She’s otherwise entirely in favor of the idea, for all the reasons I latched onto it (safe surface as it is not slippery AND it’s less hard if you do fall, acoustically it has to be way better than tile or most other options in a space that is very acoustically challenging).
They’re gonna buy us some time on the drain selection by blocking off the area around the drain, which is great. I just keep running into these things where I can tell we need to make the changes at some point, but I’m still trying to figure out what’s practicable and will help with acoustics and similar. And I cannot for the life of me pin down the dependencies so I know what needs to be figured out first / earliest / by when. It is increasingly clear that literally no one knows. The architect could know better than anyone else, but he’s already so overwhelmed it’s just ridiculous.
It’s fine, tho. I’m finding amazing options for flooring that are going to make this space so much more comfortable acoustically. I’m very excited. And J.’s looking into alternate flooring vendors than the one who did the pricing round that had so much tile / hardwood, because the cork choices there were limited to nonexistent, and I reallllly want cork in the entry if I can get it.