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Things are progressing at the house and really starting to take shape, especially after taking a night to clean the bulk of the dirt and mud that was on the floors downstairs! When the floors are wet they look fantastic, almost like polished black marble and hopefully when polished and waxed they will keep this appearance.

You can see the wall behind the woods tove is finally in, the stove pipe is just disconnected while I put a skim coat over the cement board so it will look as smooth as drywall. There is also a tall narrow cubby for fire wood and a shelf for our backup electric utility heater for when we are away from home for extended periods of time. The back of the firewood cubby will have a removable panel to access the back side of the fan unit in the utility room as well.

Upstairs we are finishing up the cement board work in the bathroom so tiling can begin this weekend, the shower and bottom 3′ of the walls and floors all being tiled. The curved shower wall was abit of a challenge but we found that 1/4″ cement board will bend around the radius we had as long as you eased it into it (which needs at least two sets of hands!) Our EPS foam premanufactured sloped shower base was maybe installed a bit too soon in the process and despite our best efforts to protect it has seen a few dents and dings along the way, hopefully this won’t be too big an issue after the waterproof membrane is installed over it.