Day 7: Landing Framed

Jody and Zach worked on framing the landing today, insuring that there would be accessible storage beneath it. They tell me that it was a challenge because nothing is plumb or level, but they were able to do it. The electrician added the network cabling and outlets which I have to add the plugs to. It looks like we will be ready for the framing and electrical inspection on Monday and we will try to move the family back into the house tomorrow night. Jody tells me that we will have stairs by tomorrow. That's good because I'm getting tired of going outside to traverse the floors of our house.
The stairway will take up more room in the house than the old spiral one but I think that it will give both the upstairs and downstairs more usable, safe space.
I tried to find stair nose molding that would match the Bruce oak flooring upstairs but I found that the product that was used was only sold at Home Depot and they don't stock it anymore. I found that Ken's Carpets in San Rafael could get me a close match. Since we want to patch the flooring upstairs with the flooring that was removed and the 1 1/2 boxes of unused flooring, most of the flooring stores wouldn't reinstall the flooring. Floorcoverings of Marin might be able to. If anyone knows of a good flooring installer in the Bay Area, please post a comment.
The electricial also installed an outlet in the "garage" so that the flourescent light can now be turned on and off with a pull chain. WE HAVE LIGHT IN OUR GARAGE!!!!