More leak tests

Just called Frank and he plans on personally doing a few more leak tests, tomorrow as a precaution. I believe he is going to use the hole in our wall as a gauge for leaks. It will be a crazy day tomorrow. I just hope it is alright since our ceiling is done now. Thank God that old water damaged ceiling of ours has been replaced. I just hope there will be no more leakage.

Light Cover Problem Fixed

A woker arrived around 9:45 am today. And fixed the light cover while I was busy clearing out the room so they could do work on our wall, I asked the worker how he solved the problem. He said that he brought the base down and that it was easy after that.


Smooth clean ceiling with light and cover.

Well it looks like the bathroom is done, but the worker said that Frank still wants to check for leaks or something. But there are no leaks in our bathroom going down. I am assuming the Frank took care of all the ones above us. That is the impression I got from Didio and I am guessing that Delorbe wouldn't continue the construction on our ceiling if their were more leaks above us.

In the meantime I am waiting for them to do the work on the wall which will hopefully be done by today since I start work tomorrow.

Final Coat but not finished...

Final Coat, they did a good job...


Smooth finish but...


They were not able to complete...


Because the screw was too short for to install this cover...


So I guess that and this will be set for Monday. Hopefully it will all be done by then.

Midday /Circuit Breaker

Painting or plaster? I don't know what they are doing but it is looking better. Mrs. Delorbe came in and took pictures as well. They all went out to lunch now.


Looks like a cleaner more even surface...


Pretty smooth...


What does this machine do?


This must be the machine that used too much power...

Twice the power went out and the circuit breaker had to be switched back on. I guess it switches off if too much electric power is being used.

The lighting main turned itself off...interesting...

Hopefully they will also get to the hole in the wall and then construction can be completed by today. I hope that they will also seal up the hole in the corner.

Also tomorrow

This should be finished as well...tomorrow. Hopefully it will all be wrapped up!

SheetRocked

Not looking too bad...


Here's the worm's eye view shot...


This close up is to give the idea of the kind of material the sheet rock is...



I zoom out for scale...


There are to come back early tomorrow morning I am guessing around 9:30am again to finish up...I just hope they seal up areas like this...


...and like this. I tell them about these areas.


They cleaned up pretty well.

Installing the sheetrock

Here's the beginning...

Early Disaster Area

We are used to Delorbe's guys coming at 1pm or 2pm. Usual time is 10 am. The bell rang at 9:30am. A call would have been nice. But whatever, that's fine. They need to get this done.
Here's our bathroom during construction...




Here is today's construction site.

Cracked

Even though we got a new light switch we also got a new crack in out tiles. Not too happy about that. I asked Delorbe if he could fix that, but he said if they worried about tiles right now this would never get done. Not sure if that means he is going to fix it later or what. But he also commented on our door and offered to help us reaplce that. He said we could get it for pretty cheap. What exactly cheap means? I don't know. I also asked if he could fix one of the outlets that we I accidnetly pulled out too much in the bedroom. He said he could look into it but not any time this week because of everything that is going down here.

Installing the fan and duct for louvered vent

Before...


After...


Duct has light. I voiced my doubts about all this keeping the cold air out but Frank told me that there is a flap on the inner vent and the outter one on the wall. We'll have to see in the winter time. But so far it looks good.

Precautions

Safety precautions were taken and the wires were covered properly by Frank Delorbe himself.

Incident

The guys came back about half an hour. I was working on my computer in the bedroom when some of the electricity went out. I heard a commotion of falling in the bathroom. One of the guys apparently got shocked. Apparently there was an open wire in the ceiling. The guys who were worked on the building previous neglected safety precautions. Thank God the poor guy was alright. A call went out to Delorbe right away and he here trying to figure out what happened. This building is old and in bad shape. Like I said it could have been worse for that guy.

As long as we've been here this is the first time we ever seen the whole ceiling in the bathroom torn down. Perhaps the previous workers who had done work never thought the ceiling would be taken down, but that is no excuse. The previous workers who left such a live wire open like that should not be permitted to work.

Here's the wire in question. Sorry it is a blurry shot. You can see from the shadow that the live wiare was dangling. This is a fire hazzard.


Here's the same shot but farther away.


Delorbe was able to find the circuit breaker and fix things. He also took a look at the fan that he got from home depot and noticed that a piece was missing. So he has to get another one. They should be here tomorrow.

Arrived 12:45

2 guys came around 12:35pm and inspected the ceiling. He showed me the fan. they left about 12:45pm. Hopefully it will all work out!

Waiting

I texted Frank at 11:00am. No response. It is now 12:00 noon. They were suppose to come in at 10:00am. I called Frank and he said that his guys were suppose to be here. So he said he would call them again. I believe they are suppose to install the louvered vent with the switch. But no one is here. I am going to call like every hour if I have to. We have to take baths and we miss our showers. It has taken a long time to get to this. To wait more in the middle of construction is quite frustrating.

Gutted

They came today and worked on taking apart the ceiling. They arrived after 10:30am. Frank's son came and an associate. Frank's son left and the associate did all the demolition. It's all gone now. It looks a little scary and it was left like this overnight. Was worried about rats and roached and other creatures, and called Delorbe to see if this is ok, he said it should be fine. It seemed fine, but we did get huge housefly all of sudden which I led out the door of the apartment. I hope they get it done soon! I asked Delorbe if they were coming tomorrow and he siad yes.

Called both Frank Didio and Delorbe and suppose to work Monday

Frank Didio called me back after I had left two voicemail messages. He told me that Frank Delorbe had been checking up on apartments further up above mine for leaks and apparently found some, and that he still was ahaving trouble getting to all of them.
Didio asked if I had found any moisture on my ceiling. I said that I couldn't tell because of the thick cardboard that Frank Delorbe's men had installed, which prevented me from seeing anything. Didio the asked me to ask Cesar, but then said if I can get a hold of Frank Delorbe to ask him. Since Delorbe's men installed this piece of thick cardboard, I proceeded to call Frank Delorbe next.

Delorbe answered at once and said that he talked to the engineer, looked at the piping (or something like that) and got the permit to replace the ceiling and install the vent.
He said they would be starting next week. I asked if I should be expecting him Monday and he said that they would be there Monday by 10am. So I will be there waiting.