Yesterday (Tuesday) I called and talked to our PM about the damage or lack thereof, and he indicated that there wasn't much to speak of. The schedule called for tar paper today and possibly beginning the shingles, so when we got there at 11:30 I wasn't surprised to see the paper, but I wasn't expecting the plumbers to be there! They were working upstairs so I took a closer look at the bottom two floors (still without going in, though). I'm a little upset that there's STILL standing water in the house. Seriously, it stopped raining early Tuesday...it's been at least 24 hours, and it takes like 5 minutes to push excess water out with a broom or something. Why is it still there? Minor, I know, but the one thing I'm really worried about is having mold behind our walls/under our carpets. And now I have to worry about my floors being warped. Ah well, we were already planning on having an independent inspector come to our pre-drywall meeting. Which will probably be the second half of next week!
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| Spot 1 |
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Spot 3, my new favorite place to take a picture
(and look at that sky!) |
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| Side view of our soon-to-be porch |
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| I'm guessing from the overall shape and depression that this is our master tub. |
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| Standing water in our Dining Room |
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Straight-on the back, where the basement door
is not only in the wrong place, it's the wrong door! |
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| Debris in the basement |
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| Standing water in the basement |
Geesh, Amanda! Still standing water! I believe I would have pulled out my broom at this point and swept the water out myself. According to some responses on my blog the plywood can withstand 25 days of standing water. AND of course, the biggest concern is MOLD! Just a thought--I placed our basement door in the same location where they now have yours because I did not want the soon-to-be deck obstructing the sun that comes through that door. Of course, once the deck is installed it gets darker underneath.
ReplyDeleteNadase, I agree with you, I'd be in there with a broom my damn self..........but Im a pushy broad sometimes :)
DeleteI'm not in the habit of carrying brooms around with me, or I probably would have. ;)
DeleteNadase, we originally had it in the back for a similar reason to you, but it limits our options more for the interior space so we changed it back. I doubt much light will get through the trees of our conservation area anyways, that far down.
They are charging us $1200 to move the basement door to the above position s i is non-standard, is that right? I live in Richmond too.
DeleteThey listed that as a no-charge item on ours, I believe. Either that or it was $200. It's an incredibly easy thing to do, so it shouldn't cost $1200! Are you East or West? We're in East, so they might do things differently in West.
DeleteAmanda, they dont seem to worry about water and the lumber at all. In our community our lumber sits on our lots for weeks until the start framing, apparently water is NOT an issue, I dont get it either, I dont want water anywhere near my home, but no one seems to care...
ReplyDeleteWrong door and the wrong place? So what is going to happen?
It irks me as much because the PM KNOWS I was worried about it, as for any other reason. I told him so before Sandy came along.
DeleteThe basement door is not the end of the world, but from what I've seen in blogland it's a fairly easy fix. They just need to do it before they start doing siding and drywall in order to avoid redos on those tasks. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that they just wanted to get the roof on and the house semi-sealed, but I intend to bring it up with the PM if he ever calls me back.
Oi!
ReplyDeleteAnd how! :)
DeleteI hope they get the house dried out soon... standing water would make me a little nervous too.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know that to these seasoned construction guys, my worry makes me seem a little neurotic. But I find the thought of mold much more terrifying than something breaking or falling down, because it's insidious and would be hard to proof fault down the road. I found one scary blog about mold problems when I was doing my pre-contract research, and while I'm fairly confident that was a one-off, it's still a scary scenario to consider.
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