Todays Visit

Todays visit was short and sweet, I went at around noon intending to catch the SR as she was arriving, I was trying to give her time to get through the Monday morning meetings but found that I was still a bit early. No problem though it just gave me a little time to take a look around the neighborhood. As usual the site was alive with activity workers busy at work on multiple homesites. Foundations being poured, concrete trucks in and out, another house in the starting phases of framing, and other homes in varied phases of internal work with ours being in the latter group. There was just one lone box truck in our drive no one visible outside. So I went and sat at the model for fifteen or twenty minutes till one of the ladies from up there showed up. I went in with her and she faxed off some paper work for me. We received paperwork from Ryan informing us that we have a scheduled date for our Pre-Settlement Demonstration as well as a Settlement Date which I have taken to calling KEY DAY!!! We have also set a date and time for the signing of the papers....... UGGH...... I hate signing papers......... for more reasons than one, but it's a necessary evil. Once she faxed of the papers for me I went and hooked up with the PM and went over the hard copy of the inspectors report with him. He took me in side and around the house and we looked at all of the things that were pointed out some... most had already been addressed others had yet to be addressed. When we went into the house I saw that they had gotten to insulation. There was a guy in there on these stilts walking around inserting batts of insulation. This guy is fast. it was only noonish and he was quit far along. I didn't get any photos today but I'll be certain to get some tomorrow. My inspector will be back out tomorrow to inspect the insulation. I received some good and bad news today. Our PM will be leaving us next Tuesday :-( he has received a promotion that will take him out of the field and move him to an office. Neither I or my wife are happy about this but we are happy for him. We will be meeting our new PM tomorrow  during the insulation inspection, the current PM is trying to get everyone acquainted with the new PM clients and inspector... make for a smooth transition. I really hate to see him go but such is life, I just hope the next PM is as cool and good at what he does as this one is.

Coming Right Along!!!

The house is getting there one step at a time, we have finally gotten to the dry wall phase.... I haven't spoken with the PM since Thursday but he said they would be starting drywall Monday or Tuesday all depending in inspections. Thursday was an interesting day, it was the day that we had the first of five different private inspections on our property. The inspector arrived on the site around 2 p.m. and informed us that his inspection would take approximately two hours. Being me I wanted see him in action so I showed up halfway through and he was cool with it. It seems that the inspector and the PM are compatible personality wise, they spoke and the Inspector addressed a couple of minor issues that he was concerned with.The PM was receptive and there were no sparks or fireworks. Once the inspection was done both the inspector and the PM walked me and the misses through the home and explained what was found and the fixes that are needed. There really wasn't any need for fixes so much as a couple of things were missing in the installation. If the parts weren't already on site ready to be installed they were on order. The Inspector had a suggestion or two and the PM said he will accommodate them. I will be checking today to insure that that has been done, prior to any dry wall going in. Once we were all done I intended to verify our pre-drywall meeting which was scheduled for today at 4 p.m., when my PM said you know we could do it now if you like...... I said oh what the hell! So we dove right in. He walked us through the home explaining away as he went along all of the outlets, switch boxes, plumbing, light boxes, cold air returns, vents, exhaust fans in baths, whole home air circulation fan, recessed lighting cans etc, etc......

I forgot to say that while onsite on Thursday, we happened to be onsite with the crews that were finishing up our Guardian installation and also the electrical crew, they are separate entities. I thought Guardian did it all initially. It was good that we went through with the PM that day, as we were going through he noticed a couple of things that needed to be addressed with the electrical. Nothing major just a three position switch box wired for four switches they had to change out the box to a four switch box, and a missing carriage light mount on the garage. Here are a few pics from the other day.

 The basement is taking shape!

 As you can see they poured the garage floor...

 The dreaded sump!!!

 Recessed lighting cans in the kitchen area.

 Ventilation duct work...

Kitchen counter area, being laid out.