Day 80 - Hmmm......

Well, I wish I had something to report, but I don't. It seems that work on our home has ground to a halt exactly 2 weeks before our final walk through. We've talked to both the PM and SR to express our very deep concern. In fact I've now called and shown up several times to remind them that we have movers, deliveries, utilities, and vacations planned around our close date and if it changes they will not be getting anywhere near the maximum on the survey Ryan sends out. More work has been done on our neighbors home which is scheduled to close after ours, which is deeply disappointing.

Still to be done, our tile isn't finished, its not grouted in the kitchen, powder room, entry, or guest bath. It isn't installed in the master bath or the basement powder room, the back splash isn't in because the counter hasn't arrived. The basement is still in the process of being dry walled and finished, it hasn't even gotten its first coat of paint or base board. The garage is not dry walled. All of the plumbing and electrical fixtures need to be installed. The porch pillars have been sitting for over a week, and the railings and steps need to go in. In fact our porch is lacking support on the left side and you can see that its started to sag, this has really pissed me off. The driveway hasn't been installed, and the landscaping needs completed.

On a side note the crew they have doing the tile work seems flaky at best. What should have been a 2-3 day job has now extended more than a week. I installed quite a bit of tile in our last home, its not time consuming or difficult work to put tile floor in. Really not sure what the crew is doing that is taking so damn long to complete.

The PM also has to fix the issues that are glaring, an electrical outlet partially behind the guest bath mirror, several dry wall defects, the person who stained our banister (which looks like it was done by a 5 year old) spilled the stain on to our kitchen cabinets.

The process is already 10 days behind schedule and Lesa and I feel that it will slip further behind. One of my biggest pet peeves is time management, I do it for a living. I'm held to task when I give a date and regardless of the obstacles it is a point of pride that I deliver on or before the date I gave. I really hope that holds true for Ryan.

So many fans....

Today we were out and about and decided to stop at Lowes. Wouldn't you know it they were having a sale on ceiling fans. Since we need to pick up 8 fans we decided to take a look at their selection.

We found a fan that we felt would look good in our master bedroom as well study. Its a 52 inch model and will hopefully keep us quite cool.

We also found a fan that should look great in the other 4 bedrooms in the house. Its a smaller 44 inch model.

We are still on the hunt for the the fans we will be installing on our front porch.

Day 75

Stopped up at the house this morning after getting a haircut and I was pleasantly surprised to find two guys installing tile. It looks great! The kitchen is nearly complete and the first floor powder room is done.

The finishers have been busy installing trim and doors and the house looks great. Can't wait to see it all painted. 

The outside is finishing up quickly as well, just need the upper half of our columns, gutters, and some paint.

Day 74

Stopped up at the house this morning and we found our tile in the garage! We also peeked in to the house and a gentleman was busy putting in the sub-floor the tile will sit on, so exciting! The first floor had all of its trim installed as well.

So much tile!

Close up

Trim and doors are installed on the first floor

Our front porch

Lookin Good!

Day 73

We stopped up at the house this afternoon and the finishers were busy at work cutting and installing the baseboard, doors, and cabinets. Everything looked really great. Our cabinets were installed throughout the house, kitchen and baths. We finally got a great sense of the size of the kitchen and we are happy, we had been worried it would be small but it isn't. We have quite a bit more room than we had in our previous kitchen.

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Bonus room bath

Bonus room

Guest Bath

Guest bath - Oops

Master Bath - The cabinets are higher, very nice!

Fixed drain pipe!

Prepping for patio

Day 71

Busy, busy busy! Lesa stopped up at the house this afternoon and found a few exciting things. First the porch roof was installed and looks great. Second, the columns for the front porch are starting to go up. The look of the house is really coming together well and we are getting a sense that what we picked sight unseen in February was spot on.

Looking good!

 The PM also fixed our pipe that was to close to the house. Just need to add some stone behind it.

Day 70

Its been a busy day! The front porch was poured, and looks great. The dry wall contractors returned to finish the basement drywall, and the masons were busy with our stone facade. I also talked to our PM about the drainage pipe in the back of the house, he is going to get that fixed. He then told me that they had put up the wrong shutters for our facade, the wife and I hadn't noticed.I initially told him to put the correct shutters on, we finished up our call and I went to the tell the wife. Well, she wanted to look at the shutters that go with our facade, once she saw them she actually preferred the ones currently on the house. I hopped back on the phone with the PM and asked if the ones that were on the house could stay, after a quick yes I hung up and gave the wife some good news.

Our PM said that the painters are up next, once the dry wall has been completed. Hopefully we will have some cabinets installed by the end of the week!