Bathroom Remodel - Day 9

Apologies for the lack of updates — between the preparations for and the actual trip back home for my sister's baby shower I fell behind. But I kept taking pictures!

Look! Paint on the walls!

Of course, a contributing factor to my sloth was the apparently slow, incremental progress as the project was nearing completion. It seemed incredible that everything would be done in two days (rightfully so, as it turned out) because while things were finally coming together, there was a lot of detail work left to do. At the end of the ninth day of work they were still working on the tile in the tub surround and all of the cabinetry was still in the middle of the living room, but at least everything was out of its boxes.

The main highlight of the day, besides seeing actual paint on the walls, was the arrival of the electrician to install our new electrical panel. Technically the old one had room to put the GFI outlet in, but it was over 50 years old. There have been a lot of "while we're at it" side project tied in with this whole endeavor, and one of them was to get a new circuit installed in the kitchen for the microwave, so we can run it at the same time as any other small appliance. The kitchen had basically one circuit for all the wall outlets (including some of the wall outlets in the living room/dining room area) and we were tripping the breaker frequently. The electrician seemed a bit nervous about working through the 40-year-old 1/2 thick real wood cabinets in the kitchen, but he did a very tidy job with the outlet, which is totally hidden by the microwave anyway. We were less thrilled with the hole he left on the other side of the wall, and with the condition of the panel when we saw it:

Fortunately, the contractors were still there when Jason got home and told him the electrician would be coming back the next day to finish up.