This should be a busy week

I had the day off yesterday, so I was able to finish some painting that would have been harder to do once the contractors progressed. I am a pretty sloppy painter, but that's not a big deal when I'm standing on subfloors or counters that are about to be replaced. So, I was able to go pretty quickly. Just yesterday, I took out the blinds in the family room, sealed up a few cracks in the molding around the window casings, primed the new drywall, and finished all of the painting on the first floor (fireplace, 2nd coat in family room, butler's pantry, and kitchen windows). In this picture, you can see the fireplace in its current state.

So far today, I've had 2 sets of contractors out. One was the demo crew to take out the counter tops. Here's how it looks right now.

I also had the exterminator come out. It looks like I was able to take care of the immediate ant problem, but we might have a water issue with the back door that we'll have to take care of. Carpenter ants like wet wood, and we only want one set of Carpenters to visit in the future. The mold guy is on his way now to tell me what we'll need to do with regards to that. He'll probably be ripping out and replacing the subfloor. I'm not sure, but we might need some trip work done on the door itself. It's a little side project that we hadn't anticipated, but I'd rather tackle it now than deal with mold and bugs for the foreseeable future.

The counter tops are supposed to show up around 1 today and the same guys are bringing the hearth. The kitchen and fireplace (sans mantel) could easily be all done by tomorrow evening. If the mold problem gets resolved, that means it's just about time to lay the wood!