It has been a long time since the last post because we have been very busy buying stuff like light and plumbing fixtures, and trying to save some of our stuff from the Okanagan Lake flood. We have filled a large quantity of sandbags and placed them in front of the boathouse. However, because water was starting to come into the boathouse we had to move much of our stuff to higher locations in the boathouse. If the water gets much higher we will need to remove it from the boathouse and find other places for it.

Sandbags in front of boathouse. Water has continued to rise about 2″ per day since this picture was taken 2 days ago.

One of our builder’s guy has continued to plug away at installing all the trims and baseboards. Most of it has been done now, but there are some areas that could not be completed until the cabinets and baseboard heaters are in place.

The cabinets in the kitchen and all but one bathroom are now in place. On May 6, with the help of some very capable relatives, we installed our Ikea kitchen cabinets, including some challenging custom work to build the island.  The following week, the countertops went in, we installed one bathroom vanity, and our countertop builder installed a large vanity and countertop in our main bathroom.  We have asked our builder to install the last bathroom vanity since it needs to be anchored into an ICF wall.

Kitchen cabinets with countertops

We have also asked the electrician to install the heaters.  Once these are done, our builder should be able to complete the baseboards.

We have met with our septic installer and he is working at developing a revised quote which will include a concrete support structure to allow parking of 1 or 2 personal vehicles over a portion of the septic field. We are hoping that the installation can start soon but the flood might impact when it can be done.