We are almost home!

Since the last update on our house the app I’ve been using on my iPad which interfaces beautifully with Blogger and Flickr has been updated and crashes on launch.  Every.  Single.  Time.  So I’ve had to resort back to computer typing and there isn’t much time for that.  However, before we have our closing date this week I wanted to share the updated photos of where things have been and where they are right now. 

The drywall was delivered using this interesting crane.

I was fascinated to sit and watch them unload the drywall from the trucks.  Unfortunately they broke a window doing it but the window was repaired.

After the drywall was hung we stopped in to check it out with Jodie while she was in town.  This will be the kitchen and morning room.  Drywall looks interesting before it’s finished.  I’m not going to post a ton of pictures of unfinished drywall that mean nothing to anyone else.   

The stacked stone was installed.  The trim around the garage and front door was hung.

The siding was hung.  It took three and a half weeks for them to finish.  Every day we stopped by hoping it would be done but it sat and sat forever.  Finally it was finished up this past week.

We were lucky the driveway was poured.  Otherwise we might have had to wait until spring.

The siding work was almost finished except for above the garage, the gable, and two rows or so under the porch.  The house was like this for about two weeks.  Notice the pillar was installed.

This is where we have left off as of Friday.  I have other photos to post but I can’t get the photo editor to work so I could cover our address before posting online.  They put in some landscaping, although we won’t get sod until spring.  We need gutters still and the front door will be painted.  From what I understand the inside is essentially finished.  The blinds were hung a couple of days prior to this

The stairs from the back went in on Friday also.  We have a screen door on the back so we can open the door to the morning room and get the breeze.     

So that’s where we are.  Walk through on Tuesday and closing on Thursday.  We officially move next week!  We are so excited! 

How Far We've Come

I went back through the blog to see which photo was the last I posted of the house. I left off with the floor joists laid for the first floor. Wait until you see how far we've come!

Three days after the photo of the floor joists we had a good portion of the first floor framed.

A day later and the first floor is up.

There's a gap in the photos, probably because they are on the camera and all of these were taken on my phone. Five days after the above picture we had:

You probably don't realize it but in this photo we are missing a window. Remember the controversial window from the last post? The window is supposed to be second floor towards the front of the house. Turns out production received the change order after the wood had been cut so it had to be framed in on site. Why they put it up as is instead of framing it while they worked I have no idea.

This side of the house does have the proper window that we added while making all of our option selections.

Not all of the house wrap was secured and the roof wasn't yet complete when we were expecting a front with some high wind. I was so worried about what would happen to the house but thankfully there were no issues.

Now we have another of those pesky time gaps where I don't have the photos uploaded yet but this is after they tacked down the rest of the house wrap, added the windows and exterior doors, built up the two elevations on the roof and put on the shingles.

One morning I stopped by after dropping Gav off at school and they were pouring the garage floor and the front stoop.

A week later and we could tell that HVAC had been run inside and the electrical was being run.

This is the back of our house looking from the cul de sac and through someone else's backyard.

That's where we stand for now. We spoke with the project manager on another matter and he said the drywall should be getting dropped off this week and we may have our pre-drywall meeting at the end of the week.

The electrician did put the floodlight in the wrong location on the back of the house. The project manager told us that the excuse the electrician gave was that he didn't look at the plans and just put it wherever he has in other houses. It raises some concerns about the other electrical additions/changes we made. We'll be going through the house with a fine tooth comb this week.

Have a great week!