They demo'd the breakfast room this week. This is the wall that will disappear - the duct in the middle (guest bedroom A/C return) is the one that will be routed under the new floor... or is it around the other wall and through the ceiling? I've forgotten pretty much everything we've signed up for.

The demolition revealed a remarkable amount of pinhole corrosion on the riser that started to give me trouble a few months back. The arrow points to a drop of water from a baby pinhole that's just starting to break through, the bastard.

We need to have our flooring decisions made by the end of next week - I took exact measurements of the basement, drew it on graph paper at the scale of two squares = 13 inches (13in being a side of linoleum tile) and cut little tile squares to see how they'd fit. We're going with a diamond pattern to echo the old tile we discovered under the back room carpet.