Sunday, March 13, 2016

Week 7 is over!

Well week 7 is finished.  Quite a few "small" things have happened this week.  First, our Project Manager got everything on our list of concerns taken care of with the framers.  The framing inspection happened Wednesday and they failed a few things...surprise, surprise.  So they are coming Monday for a re-inspection.  Electric and plumbing were completed and inspected.  They also did insulation and that is scheduled to be inspected Monday as well.  We have also scheduled our pre-drywall walk through for Monday.  So, as usual we walked the house this weekend with our dad's to see if there were any more concerns.  And now I have another list for our Project Manager!  We noticed 2 plumbing issues (a missing hose bib and no plumbing for our laundry tub) that I went ahead and text him.  He said he would get on it first thing Monday.  I feel bad being so needy, but I try to think about it like I'm helping him out :)  

Here are my other issues to bring up/ask about tomorrow.
  • Missing hose bib.
  • Missing laundry tub plumbing.
  • They still haven't finished the roof on the front corner of the garage.
  • The door frame to the basement is just a mess in general.  It's twisted and not very sturdy.
  • The basement steps are all correctly, evenly spaced.  So what happens when they lay the 3/4" hardwood on the first floor?  I think that's going to make them uneven.  Just need to ask him about that.
  • I didn't see the shower rough-in in the basement.  So I need him to show me that.
  • Most of the windows will not close enough to lock.
  • In the framing in the morning room there are no boards on the top corner to hang drywall.  
  • Normally framers will glue and nail walls to the floor.  Well these framers didn't glue them, so our Project Manager had them screw them down.  When we checked, they used 2" screws to screw down 2x4s.  How does that even make sense?!?!

I also took a lot of pictures to be able to refer to later.  Not sure they mean much to anyone else, but I'm putting them here for our own reference.
Looking from laundry room into Adam's bedroom.
Ceiling in bonus room.  We will eventually need to add another ceiling fan or light because this room is HUGE.  So we took pictures to help Andrew be able to do that.
Bonus room ceiling continued.
Bonus room.
Master bath and closet at the far end.
Master bedroom, picture from doorway.
Looking from 2nd floor to first.
2nd floor hallway.  Boys bedrooms behind me, bonus and master at the opposite end.
Austin's bedroom, right next to Adam's
Austin's bedroom from hallway.
Boys bathroom from doorway.  Double sink vanity towards left.  Toilet on right next to tub.
Laundry room (from Adam's bedroom.)  Note missing laundry tub plumbing.
Alex's bedroom.  Only 1 window, but the only room with a good layout for our twin over double bunk bed that he wants.  (And it's right next to the bathroom since he insists getting up every night to pee!)
Looking at 2nd floor from first.
First floor stairs with halfwalls and the room that I'm not sure what to do with yet behind it.  Removing these half walls is one of the projects we will do before we even move in.  We'll be putting in metal spindles.  It just really opens the entry way but Ryan Homes wanted too much money to do that!
Staircase to the basement on the left.  Pantry next to that.  Half of the kitchen.
Kitchen.  This is for sure going to be my favorite part of the house!
This is supposed to be the "dining room" but we are not really sure how we will use it.  Since the boys are old enough to go upstairs I'm going to limit the number of toys on the first floor, so I'm thinking this will be more of a sitting room, with no tv.
"Morning Room" where our new dining room table will go!  The patio doors are on the right that will eventually open to a deck!  (Once we have enough grass to need a deck.)
The office is behind that wall.  Excited to have an official office and no longer have to store stuff in our closet :)
Great Room.  Tv will be mounted between the windows.  So those windowswill get blinds.
Other side of the Great Room, with no return air vent!! :)
Mudroom closet and hallway with return air vent.
Other side of the mudroom where we plan to do some built ins.  Powder room behind that wall.
Powder room
Garage wall.
Entry from garage.  Plan to paint that door black and do some built ins somewhere in that area.
Other half of back wall of garage.
Side wall in garage.  We may eventually plan to blow some insulation in this wall.
And brick was delivered!  They plan to start brick this coming week.

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