On with the construction!

OKAY!   Here is the update on our little sphere of Wallkill construction:

Let's just start by letting you know the E Residence is scheduled for completion Oct. 2014.  This has caused a general blur of activity in most crews.

For Jeremy and tile this has involved bouncing around quite a bit on the basement level.  Why?  


Because the commissary was moving into its original location down there. Tile didn't touch the flooring, IC (industrial coatings) crew made a ribbon pattern and created a terrazo flooring.  It was so beautiful that we hardly believed it was just for the grocery store! 

Tile went on a few of the walls in the commissary. It didn't take them too long.

 

 

The next HUGE project was the basement hallway.

These three sides of the E Res basement connect to:

the dining room

 two elevator areas

 the back end of the kitchen

 men & women locker rooms for kitchen & waiter staff

 two public bathrooms

 the personal laundry area for those who live above

 the commissary

 the new barber shop

AND

 loads of technical rooms housing electrical, plumbing and maintenance systems.

 

 

 

  The traffic in those hallways was non-stop! Once again IC handled the terrazo flooring,  tile crew was responsible for blue coating (a movement-control membrane that helps adhere to the plaster walls ) and tiling five feet up the walls making this  4,000 SQUARE FEET of tile!

 

Below is the tile on the walls with no wallpaper above or a finished ceiling.  The other picture shows how nice the terrazo flooring looks too.

 

 

But lets not forget all the other tile that has gone in this basement: locker rooms, the public bathrooms, the laundry or cleaning stations...  Trust us -- this basement is LOADED with tile!!!  

Here is one of the elevator areas before and after

 

Jeremy and Elvis early in August.

 

 

 

 

 Here is the personal laundry area for the residents of E.

(I got to grout these walls last month)



Then, you may remember the showers in the locker rooms Jeremy worked on a couple of months ago...
(I was caulking these for a week and just finished up now that the door frames are in)

And just this week he helped tile the two public bathrooms:

(floor tile was 20x20)

Public bathroom (womens)

Jeremy with Eric above and Denver, Osiris, Jarin and Alexis to the right in public bathroom (mens). 

Grouted!

My jobs have varied between tile and laminate all this month.  I've got lots of practice caulking tile showers and now I'm in the process of caulking the top and bottom of the tile in the basement hallway.  Earlier in the week I helped put down laminate in residence rooms here:




 So now you know more than you ever thought you could know.  :)