tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87791278867999853152024-02-19T04:49:50.446-05:00Rome-ing In RichmondAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-72657718023409419492014-09-13T23:28:00.001-04:002014-09-16T16:00:00.696-04:00And now for the downersWithout further ado, the things I don't like:<br />
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- Hands down, the number one thing I don't like about the house is not specific to the floor plan. The attention to detail and professionalism of the people hired to do finish work left so very much to be desired. Trim that doesn't meet right was just caulked (and still looks bad), the paint job was sloppy (I just found an entire wall covered in goobers, that we didn't notice before because who looks closely at closet walls?), some trim wasn't level, doors weren't hung quite straight, doorknobs weren't tightened securely so they wiggle around and scraped up the door paint, the list goes on and on. My favorite? The wood for the windowsills was cut too quickly, which left sort of a frayed edge...not exactly splinter wood, too thin and floppy for that, but easily fixed. They didn't fix it...and the paint people painted right over it! So we had painted bits of wood sticking out of almost every single windowsill! Grrr.<br />
- The wire pantry shelves were HORRIBLE. They were awkwardly placed, didn't make good use of the space, and bent underneath the weight of just a couple cans of food. This was the first big project we tackled in the house, switching to decent shelves. I might end up doing the linen closet shelves down the road, but they don't hold canned goods so they don't bother me as much yet.<br />
- They don't tell you this, although I know at least one other blogger was able to get it adjusted slightly...when you get 42" cabinets they're hung at the same height as the standard ones. Which means they come down lower. So tall appliances don't fit underneath them. That part isn't a super big deal, since we're not coffee drinkers, but it does occasionally cause some annoyances. Where it got us in trouble is that we can't open the doors of the cabinet above the fridge all the way, because they hit the fridge door's hinge. Luckily that's where I store stuff I use very, very rarely.<br />
- I know I'm going to be in the minority with this one...but I really, really don't like how huge the master bedroom is (hides from rotten tomatoes). For us, and how we live, that's wasted space. I wish we had given more serious thought to figuring out how to carve another room out of some of that, so that we could have an actual guest room. All my bedroom needs is room for a bed, bedside tables, and dressers. I could fit two bedroom suites in that room!<br />
- The staircase is really hard to get furniture through, because of the bend. They also extended the wall cap trim (for the section from the top floor to the landing) in such an absurd manner that it's a bit of a hazard to small children and ribcages. The railings are not very sturdy. And what the heck is up with this weird flat trim? My kids hurt themselves on it at least once a week. I really want to just rip it off and re-finish whatever's underneath.<br />
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- The mudroom is a joke. Seriously, why are they even allowed to call that a mudroom? The model doesn't have any doors, which gives the illusion of more space, when in reality that garage door is totally in the way any time it's open.<br />
- On elevation E, the living room window reaches closer to the floor. Which means my kids stand on the window sill. It probably will make it harder to put furniture in there, too, when we finally stop using it as the boys' craft room and put full-sized stuff in there.<br />
- Having a pedestal sink in the powder room is somewhat less than ideal. I'm still trying to figure out a way to keep supplies in there without cluttering the space up with cabinets or things on the floor. We might swap that sink out down the road, still pondering.<br />
- The landscaping was a joke. Seriously, we have red clay here in Virginia and all they did was dig a hole, plop a plant from the pot to the hole, and cover it with mulch. I'm shocked anything on our street is even alive. Although we were the only ones to have anything actually die, so maybe they know something I don't.<br />
- The placement of light switches is mind-boggling. I've seen lots of variations on this in the blogs, and no two are alike. We lucked out that there aren't any really annoyingly placed ones (middle of that kitchen wall, anyone?) but sometimes I want to smack the designers upside the head.<br />
- The drawers in the kitchen are ridiculously shallow, in my humble opinion. Not something I would have thought to measure!<br />
- When you get double sinks, that doesn't give you much flat surface to put stuff on. The sinks take up most of the room.<br />
- The bathroom outlets are not in the most convenient place for hair dryers and stuff. Petty, I know. :)<br />
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And the things I'd do differently:<br />
- A different lot. I'm really not happy with the yard we ended up with, especially since we were given some verbal assurances that turned out to be incorrect. We're making it work as best we can, but I have a much harder time letting my boys go outside to play than I was hoping for.<br />
- BIGGER DECK. I thought ours would be sufficient, but since there's no stairs down to the yard we really could have used the extra room so that kids have space to play when we're all out there. It's a wee bit cramped right now, with the grill and two chairs.<br />
- If you get the half-bath in the basement you can't do the shower rough-in. It's either full bath or full rough-in, not mix and match. What we didn't know was that there's no way to come back after the fact and add a shower in there, even though there's room if you take out that wall. Probably there can be some creative plumbing done to get a shower in there, but if we'd known about that we'd have gotten the full bath.<br />
- The bar between the kitchen and morning room is more annoying than useful. When we upgrade our countertops down the road, I might just have them take that out and make that section of counter a little deeper.<br />
- I'd try to get a bay window somewhere. It didn't appear to be an option in our neighborhood, but I've since seen it on other houses (not Romes, though).<br />
- I'd pick a different siding color, so we could do a brightly colored door. Not much goes with green!<br />
- No tub jets. Waste of money, they're really loud so we never use them.<br />
- The master bathroom is kind of...boring. I think I would pick different tiles next time.<br />
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And just to end things on a more positive note, the things I thought would be bad that turned out okay:<br />
- The soaker tub. I didn't think we'd use it enough to justify it, but we actually use it quite a bit.<br />
- I originally wanted every available window installed in the house, which would have added one to each of the front bedrooms and one to the front living room. As it turns out, the house on the living room side of us is so close that the two on that side would have been pointless, and really having two windows in the bedrooms would have made for difficulties in furniture arrangement. Plus that living room wall is where my built-in bookcase is going!<br />
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Alright, that's all I have for now. I reserve the right to do follow-up posts, though, if I think of any more likes or dislikes. :)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-34006769278233566222014-09-10T22:41:00.000-04:002014-09-10T22:41:02.758-04:00Let me count the waysI had intended to do all my catch-up posts in the order listed yesterday, but that first one is going to be a BEAST. Let this be a lesson to you: it is MUCH harder to go back in time (duh) and remember what things have or have not been posted on, which things need to be updated, trains of thought that need to be completed. Do it as you go! So instead I'm going to start with a word-heavy, rather than picture- and detail-heavy, post. Ladies and gentlemen, things I still LOVE about the Rome:<br />
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- The open floor plan is everything we hoped it could be. We've had three birthday parties, one sit-down dinner with 11 people, and multiple small group gatherings, and this floor plan just delivers. Lots of room for people to gather together, but also enough to separate into smaller conversational groupings. It doesn't feel cramped having more than just the four of us in the room.<br />
- The kitchen. Oh the kitchen. I love having counters. Seriously, here's a picture of our old house so you can appreciate how much this kitchen and I are soul mates.<br />
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- The loft is great. It's where the bulk of the kids' toys are, it's a great space for wrestling them into bed, and I sort all my laundry there.<br />
- Having the laundry on the same floor as the clothing closets is wonderful. Not really a change from our old ranch, but I grew up in a house where we had to lug baskets up and down stairs, so it's a perk I can appreciate. Especially since the boys go through so many clothes!<br />
- I like having a porch. I want to use the porch. That hasn't really happened yet, other than my cucumber vines climbing the railing, but we WILL get there. :)<br />
- Garages are WONDERFUL.<br />
- Basements are excellent also. My husband has pretty much claimed it as his own, did all the decorating and arranging, and keeps all his <strike>crap</strike> stuff down there where I don't have to trip over it.<br />
- Storage areas...ah. Not having to climb into an attic! Or renting a storage locker! And keeping the kitty litter box away from anything that might resemble human food! Priceless.<br />
- Staircase. This one snuck up on me, but I like that the stairs are less steep than other homes I've been in. The treads are deeper, also, so I can fit all my big foot on it at once. Which is good when you have a really bad ankle and are accident prone. (Spoiler alert: the staircase will also appear on the things-I-don't-like post)<br />
- Having four bedrooms is a very useful thing. I can put all my <strike>crap</strike> stuff in that spare bedroom where my husband doesn't have to trip over it.<br />
- We actually get morning sun in our morning room. I hung some prisms in the windows, and my boys greatly enjoy getting to watch rainbows on the walls while they eat breakfast. And the light over there is great for pictures, at least for the first half of the day.<br />
- Elevation E has a previously under-appreciated perk: hanging Christmas lights is SO much easier when you can climb out a window onto a roof that goes the width of the house.<br />
- Nice, big closets in the master suite are a nice perk.<br />
- Linen closets are a wonderful thing.<br />
- More than one toilet is unbelievably awesome.<br />
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That's all I can think of right at the moment, but if I come up with something else I'll try and remember to post about it! :)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-19129192922702021462014-09-09T23:04:00.003-04:002014-09-09T23:04:49.946-04:00Long time no seeSo, apparently there are a few people out there still reading! Thank you for that. I'm going to have a bunch of catch-up posts:<br />
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- How the house looked on closing day (and as much about closing as I can remember), since it doesn't look like I did any picture updating during the last week. A lot happened that last week!<br />
- Punch-list stuff and other house finishing woes<br />
- Things I love<br />
- Things I'd do differently<br />
- Ongoing issues, and the joys of dealing with HOAs and developers<br />
- Changes we've made<br />
- Changes we're planning<br />
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Is there anything else I'm not thinking of? I'll do a house tour one room at a time, as they are clean. Which could take a looooong time. :D We haven't done the 10 month drywall repairs yet, so we haven't really done much painting/decorating. Soon, we hope!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-10371049496146480872014-09-05T13:53:00.003-04:002014-09-05T13:53:31.871-04:00(Crickets chirping)So...anyone there? I've been out of the game for almost two years now, but things are finally in a place where I can start posting again. If anyone is still interested...Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-24718010945452342402012-12-30T22:46:00.001-05:002012-12-30T22:46:15.286-05:00Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?Hey all! Quick update, sorry no pictures. We had some snags with our cable internet transfer, and then my laptop's power cord got lost in the move, and of course the holidays complicated things. Long story short, I'm still catching up on my various computer-y obligations. There's only so much I can do from a smartphone! But I'll have a full update as soon as I can, I promise. I'll also be catching up on everyone else's blogs so get ready for lots of comments! :)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-75397593302615505172012-12-19T15:46:00.001-05:002012-12-19T15:46:16.454-05:00Alicia <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLLJjSch6E6PfGx488hAlJrgXOre_fHpch2w4uOr8V4b8D1frCXzuapXInUCJw8Qyns2Eey-MrsQw4U6fG14Tsmkh6RghpFyZsomNhJamHWv_YAEnk-EZPAzwzgLu8q-mOQcpV_BGcy0/s640/blogger-image-424113711.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLLJjSch6E6PfGx488hAlJrgXOre_fHpch2w4uOr8V4b8D1frCXzuapXInUCJw8Qyns2Eey-MrsQw4U6fG14Tsmkh6RghpFyZsomNhJamHWv_YAEnk-EZPAzwzgLu8q-mOQcpV_BGcy0/s640/blogger-image-424113711.jpg" /></a></div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-35922230522292756172012-12-15T14:25:00.001-05:002012-12-15T14:25:48.306-05:00Chill FactorWe're trying to decide on the fridge we're going to buy for the new house, and I'd really like to hear what everyone chose and why. Especially those of you who are already moved in and using the fridge in question! I know I've seen a lot of people going with Samsung, but I used to work in the TV repair business and that brand was a nightmare for getting things fixed or replaced...so I'm hesitant to buy a fridge from them. Old bad blood, I guess. Maybe I should just be over it by now? :)<br />
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These are the top 10 rated french-door bottom-freezer water-dispenser refrigerators on Consumer Reports' website. We need a black one, so a couple of these might not actually be an option for us.<br />
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LG LFX28991[ST]<br />
Whirlpool Gold GX5FHTXV[Q] <br />
Samsung RFG298HD[RS] (Lowe's) <br />
Samsung RF323TEDB[SR] <br />
Kenmore Elite 7106[2] <br />
LG LFX28979[ST] <br />
LG LFX31925[ST] <br />
Kenmore Elite 7103[2] <br />
Samsung RF266AE[WP] <br />
Kenmore 7201[2]<br />
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Give me your thoughts, friends! And as always, if you've done a post on it you can just post a link rather than repeat yourself. ;)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-3823081712010673122012-12-12T15:32:00.000-05:002012-12-13T19:06:11.709-05:00The power...you're supplying......it's ELECTRIFYING!<br />
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I went by the house this morning after dropping the son off at preschool, and found a ton of new stuff! Unfortunately I forgot to put the memory card back in my nice camera, so you'll have to settle for iPhone pics. I'll take better ones next time! The card has already been replaced.<br />
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New today: gutters! driveway! garage lights! lamppost! front doorknobs and doorbell! lights on! microwave installed! toilets in!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our hallway boob lights</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stairwell light from below</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stairwell light from above, and our capped wall (standard...railings are usually an upgrade)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Powder room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Microwave installed and powered on (still no sign of counters, though...)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Master vanity (and lights that point up...we didn't request that, M!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Master shower (still waiting on glass surround, which I only just realized!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally an unbroken sink in the boys' bathroom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm digging the oil-rubbed bronze fixtures!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The infamous laundry door has been fixed, but not yet cleaned up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our non-standard request to raise the dryer vent was accommodated without charge. Since we<br />
have a stacking w/d, I asked that it be in the middle in case down the road we get the<br />
side-by-side kind. Though that might not look too good, since it's so high up!</td></tr>
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Let's see...so we still need counters, the kitchen sink & faucet, stove & oven need to be installed, grout in the master bath flooring, a gazillion wall touch-ups, final grade, landscaping & sod, some cabinets need repair/replace, trim over window exteriors, a couple shutters, trim-type stuff around garage door (pretty sure it's not supposed to be a big gap there, see garage lights picture above), banisters stained, towel bars & toilet paper holders installed...did I miss anything? Given how quickly they managed this much, I guess they MIGHT be able to get it all done in time...<br />
<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-39042938879920154382012-12-10T23:21:00.001-05:002012-12-10T23:21:53.281-05:00Floor it!We went out there Sunday to take pictures to put on our Christmas card (yes, I'll share them, but not until we've mailed the cards!), and found lots of goodies. They've been hard at work, because our entire house is now floored! As of yesterday we still needed grout in the bathroom tiles, but everything else is in. The hardwood is covered up, and the light was atrocious, and the carpet is beige, so I didn't bother to take pictures. The power does not seem to be on yet, though we didn't have any light switches installed so I couldn't actually test that. All our light fixtures are in (see earlier comment about atrocious light and lack of pictures...I'll take some after the power is on!) but the switches etc didn't start going in until this morning. The boys and I stopped by again around noon since we were in the neighborhood for a playdate, and in that time they got our porch columns installed and our kitchen island mounted out. Today's visit was limited to the main floor because someone was working upstairs...everyone else was apparently out for lunch. But the country music was cranked up loud!<br />
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The most shocking thing about our visit yesterday was that our decks were installed! Yes, all three of them. What, you didn't know we were getting three? Neither did we!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our deck-in-a-garage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some perspective on how tall our garage is (from door to house). If only we could make it <br />
WIDER instead of tall. I don't think we're getting two cars in here. ;(</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I see a <a href="http://ravennaspeed.blogspot.com/2012/04/triangle-of-empty-space.html" target="_blank">triangle of empty space!</a> Surely they could have put SOMETHING in there. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My non-standard single island oven! I wasn't expecting the drawer cabinet, but I think I like it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deck from the morning room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Underneath our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(Star_Wars)" target="_blank">AT-AT</a> (aka super tall main deck)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our deck-under-a-deck (from a basement window, because it was muddy out there!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back view (there's lots of leaves outside our lot...no mud!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from our super tall deck. There will eventually be houses at the top of that ridge, <br />
but they haven't even started clearing a road yet so we'll enjoy this while we have it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Jessica's house from our deck (should make for some good pictures!). <br />
There will be another house between us, but that lot hasn't sold yet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1 - Sunday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Columns! From spot 1 - Monday</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpK53Sc39YmHv37BjAKpWiMfqVHNpUXvK_JPe2WJXHvWqgejGg8HKoRCyocOkkwnonyu0lKZG946CCRbCPAlETv3yssryJAeMbg1hr0UZPYVPlagt_eSR_dSNsVTjLPV_jl7fp5Kr71A/s1600/20121210-8209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpK53Sc39YmHv37BjAKpWiMfqVHNpUXvK_JPe2WJXHvWqgejGg8HKoRCyocOkkwnonyu0lKZG946CCRbCPAlETv3yssryJAeMbg1hr0UZPYVPlagt_eSR_dSNsVTjLPV_jl7fp5Kr71A/s320/20121210-8209.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They're much nicer than I thought they'd be. Also we don't seem to be getting railings.</td></tr>
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I feel like I'm forgetting something, but then I'm pretty frazzled right now so I'm ALWAYS forgetting something. Sigh.<br />
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Oh, and Nadase...we don't get sprinklers. They're not required in our area. I'm not too broken up about it. :)Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-66448401775111860242012-12-06T22:34:00.001-05:002012-12-07T14:25:29.097-05:00Git'er done (and a photo tip!)My dad came down for a visit today, so we trucked out to see what we could see at the new house. Lucky for us, the PM pulled up right as we were walking to the house, so we were able to walk around inside! We wouldn't have dared by ourselves, the place was the busiest I think I've seen it since the framers left. They've got a lot going on...they've put in our porch steps (which I didn't know would be brick - I love it!) and spread gravel for the concrete interior of the porch, as well as for the walkway. The plan is to pour it today or tomorrow, and I'm assuming once that's cured they can put in our columns and finish that off. They're waiting on another cabinet to arrive, plus there's a door that is broken and needs to be replaced, but the appliances are in house and ready to be installed. There were a ton of workers bringing in our hardwood flooring, so that's going to go in in the next couple days, and the HVAC guy was doing the finishing touches in preparation for the electricity going on this afternoon! Hopefully that happened. :) The framing guy was hard at work fixing our laundry door (I didn't take pictures of that, out of respect) and I was able to tell him which way I wanted the door to open, so now it'll open out into the loft rather than inward to the laundry room. Much more appropriate to how I do things. Which reminds me, our master bath door opens out into the bedroom, not inward to the shower stall...and I didn't even have to ask. :) The garage door is in the garage waiting to be installed. The remaining pieces of trim that go above the windows are backordered (even one of the closed houses is missing some of those, apparently), the boys' bathroom is sans sink, the asphalt guy is apparently in high demand (apparently there's only one GOOD asphalt guy in town, and all the builders want him) so who knows when that'll go in, and I haven't seen any carpet yet, but all in all it's getting done!<br />
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I did go dumpster diving, in full view of everyone, to get a sample of our bathroom tile and listello. And then my 4 year old tried to go dumpster diving too. Fun times.<br />
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I'm being picky with my pictures now, since I'm approaching the photo storage limit (more on that below!), but here are a couple for you.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0eKBd6yspu8TffDMyVvg4PUwoKH6dXAO6rwKEffPsuARuIfAmt8h1YQXy2wcgknMCukNtC0ao4X-M8wLzP4yOL3LEVHNUP9RSUc2XVyqLlnlaJ1E6f5WG6Jpx4GDnN7XIeFW3c_bVaM/s1600/20121206-7731.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0eKBd6yspu8TffDMyVvg4PUwoKH6dXAO6rwKEffPsuARuIfAmt8h1YQXy2wcgknMCukNtC0ao4X-M8wLzP4yOL3LEVHNUP9RSUc2XVyqLlnlaJ1E6f5WG6Jpx4GDnN7XIeFW3c_bVaM/s320/20121206-7731.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have more porch!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to pour the porch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to pour the walkway</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage door waiting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiled but not grouted in the master</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our double sinks, I can't wait!</td></tr>
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<b>Photos tip for my fellow RH bloggers:</b></div>
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To see how close you are to your limit, sign in to your Blogger (or Google) account then go here:</div>
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https://www.google.com/settings/storage/</div>
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The box that says Free will show you the percentage of your storage that's in use.</div>
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If you're approaching your limit, you CAN get more space by deleting files (I just tested it). To do that go here:</div>
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picasaweb.google.com</div>
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Click on the album that is your blog name, and all the pictures you've posted to your blog will come up. If you click on any one of them it will go to a single-pic view page, and under Actions you can choose Delete This Photo. You can also, from the multi-pic view page, click on Organize, then delete many pictures at once, but those thumbnails are TINY and I couldn't be sure I was deleting the right ones.</div>
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My advice? If you have a ton of pictures and they're mostly of the same thing...pare them down to one or two. I'm going to be deleting the Model Panorama - Reversed tab, because really it's the exact same pictures as the Per Plan, and I need the space for the last two weeks of my build...and after! :) Find the posts that have the most pictures, and pare them down. And then be picky about what photos you post from here on out!<br />
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**edited to add: <a href="http://ourvenicecottage.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Aand M</a> posted about re-sizing your pictures in the comments of <a href="http://ricknadase.blogspot.com/2012/12/we-got-power.html" target="_blank">this post on Nadase's blog.</a></div>
Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-78886154565632298532012-12-03T23:18:00.001-05:002012-12-03T23:18:37.843-05:00In good trimLots of stuff going on! Which is appropriate, since we're two weeks and a day from closing! Yikes. I went over last Wednesday and the place was echoingly vacant...must have been lunchtime. Either that or they were waiting for paint to dry, because they'd obviously been at work with the paint. All the windows were covered and the floor was less wood-colored than it used to be. I took pictures but they're pretty boring. The only thing notable is that houses look really weird without baseboards and doorway moldings. :)<br />
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Friday I stopped by and they were installing cabinets. This time I didn't go inside (I don't like to get in anyone's way) but I looked through windows and saw the cabinets. Plenty of hammering going on, too. So since we knew that there'd be something to see we popped back in on Saturday afternoon. Two thirds of the cabinets are in, looks like pretty much all the trim is installed, and all but one basement door installed. I debated climbing in the dumpster but the thing is much taller than me and my husband would NOT have helped me. There's a history of falling off ladders in my family so I guess he has a point. ;)<br />
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I wanted to point out, too...you can see in many of these pictures that our paint is NOT white. It's not exactly beige, either, but it is very clearly NOT white. Which means it'll be a little more bearable to not paint the whole house immediately.<br />
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On to pictures!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I can't get a good picture of the siding color to save my life. <br />
I'll have to try again when it's overcast, I guess.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage goodies #1 (the extra pipe mentioned <a href="http://romeinginrichmond.blogspot.com/2012/11/snug-as-bug-in-rug.html" target="_blank">here</a> is for the tankless water heater,<br />
which will be just to the right of those electrical panels) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage goodies #2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess this answers why we're still missing a couple shutters?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sinks for the boys' bathroom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Porch columns! I think.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cool little shelf in the back of the garage...I'm going to ask them if they can leave it there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have some cabinets!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They left the blueprints with this on top...not sure if we're missing a <br />
page or what, 'cause it doesn't look like what we have!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our missing cabinet goes HERE, according to the writing on the wall.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crumb catcher!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening light in the morning room. This house has made me truly realize <br />
the different arcs the sun takes at different times of year!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The capped stair wall in the Rome</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Door into master bath</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boys' bathroom, waiting on those sinks</td></tr>
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So the laundry room. Sigh. We made a non-standard request to have the door be centered on the room, so that we could have cabinets on the wall opposite the washer/dryer. The blueprints have the door placed all the way at the end (the hallway end, not that it could actually BE at the other end because of the bedroom). The blueprints therefore had the washer and dryer at the other end, next to the bedroom. Perfectly logical, I guess, but an egregious misappropriation of space. Hence the non-standard. Well, the framers centered it on the WALL, rather than on the ROOM. Which might not have mattered...except that the PM had them put the washer/dryer on the hallway end rather than the bedroom end. Long story shorter, this lovely door, so painstakingly framed, drywalled, trimmed, and hung, will not even open two inches once the washer and dryer go in, because that section of wall is about a foot too shallow to hold the appliances. And we all knew that back when it was just framing, and easily fixed. Sigh. The PM says it will be fixed this week, before they do the carpet in here. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The laundry room door of ineptitude</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basement powder room. Pretty standard, but can't think of anyone else who got it so here's a pic.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little birdy told me there's a water meter here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why so there is!</td></tr>
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So here's another conundrum that I discovered while processing my pictures...the living room window. Does that seem rather low to you?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Living room window</td></tr>
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The upper end seems to be the right height, and it's clearly a different window than the one in this model pic (not one of mine, because my models all have a couch in front of that window)...so I'm thinking it's a taller window. But why? Is it because we're getting the porch? It looks fine from the outside, but inside it looks a little funky. And makes me wonder if I'll have small children barreling through it if I don't put a couch in front!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Model in Bristow (from Nadase's blog)</td></tr>
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In other news, I talked to the PM today and got the timeline. This week will be tile in the bathrooms, then plumbing fixtures and HVAC fixtures. Possibly the porch will be poured this week too, if all goes well, which is good because I want to get a family picture in front of our house to put in the Christmas cards (I told the PM that, he said they would keep that in mind). Next week will be all the flooring, I'm guessing electrical fixtures too (don't think he specified, and I didn't think to ask), and the week of close will be finishing touches. Here's what I see that needs to be done:</div>
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Fix laundry room door</div>
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Bathroom tile</div>
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Flooring everywhere else</div>
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Finish cabinets, install counters (they haven't made an appearance yet)</div>
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Plumbing fixtures</div>
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Electrical fixtures</div>
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Pour porch</div>
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Finish exterior trim - porch columns, and railings if we're getting them (I haven't thought to ask), and the little things above the windows, and the remaining shutters</div>
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Put down asphalt driveway</div>
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Final grading of lot</div>
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Landscaping</div>
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Finishing touches</div>
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That's a lot to get done! I hope they can do it</div>
Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-68054248879399368992012-11-26T12:35:00.000-05:002012-11-26T12:35:25.686-05:00So much to do, so little timeWe've recently come to the realization that we have less than a month till closing. Which means about three weeks to pack, to plan our first moves in the new house, to coordinate our assistance, to go crazy from the stress of it all. Right now I'm focused on the first moves. My list so far:<br />
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Paint the boys' rooms (more if possible, but those rooms are must-do)<br />
Install ceiling fixtures in boys' rooms<br />
Install garage door opener<br />
Baby-proof the cabinets<br />
Put locks on all the windows (no falling children, thank you!)<br />
Install gates on staircases<br />
Install cabinets, counter, and hanging rods in laundry room<br />
Install light-blocking mechanisms of some sort (haven't come up with a master plan yet)<br />
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Possible, if needed:<br />
Change doorknobs (some will need locks, and I'm not sure what we get automatically)<br />
Additional shelves in closets<br />
Seal bathroom tile<br />
Paint/seal garage and storage room floors<br />
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The problem with reading so many blogs is that I can no longer remember where I saw anything! I know I've seen in several places that people have sealed the tile in their bathrooms...it sounds like a good idea, but my husband wants to know why and I don't know what to tell him. :) Sealing the concrete in the garage has also been mentioned, and I would imagine for similar reasons, but again I don't remember why. I've been tossing around the idea of painting the concrete floors in the garage and basement storage areas, on the grounds that a painted surface is easier to clean. Can anyone shed light on these topics for me? And what else do people recommend that we haven't thought of?<br />
<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-46403804201408841022012-11-23T12:32:00.000-05:002012-11-23T12:32:02.688-05:00On the bright side(ing)Wednesday was a pretty rough day around here as we ended up putting our elder statescat to sleep after a bad week of health problems, so visiting the house wasn't even on our radar. But we were in the area for our family's Thanksgiving, so we left a little early to be able to check things out. The baby fell asleep on the way there (which was good, since I knew he wouldn't nap at the party!) so we drove around the neighborhood a bit to check things out. We were surprised to see workers on two of the houses, on Thanksgiving day! One was Ryan homes, the other was a different builder that is in our neighborhood. Both were framing crews. Apparently some crews work even on holidays or Sundays, but it's their choice not the company (per the PM).<br />
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Lo and behold when we drove up to our house...SIDING! And SHUTTERS! It looks great!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 4 (and my thumb blocking the sun!<br />
And the dumpster finally photobombs me. Had to happen eventually!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back</td></tr>
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Of course I took a bazillion pictures inside, with the intent of making more of my pano shots, but Photoshop is having a lot more trouble with perspective now that there are flat walls. It doesn't always realize that a corner isn't just another seam in the drywall. So here are a selection of single shots for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dining room/halls, with our capped stair walls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morning room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Master bath</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interesting Stuff around windows - to protect corner edges?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's where our big TV will be, with the fancy speakers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Room under the stairs for more storage, maybe some shelves...or the litter box</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leak in the basement (PM says something about a balloon in the pipe to keep<br />
water in the tubs, to check for leaks, he's not worried is what I'm saying here.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage full of goodies!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wyoming Cherry Bordeaux, as requested</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cabinets!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doors, doors, and more doors</td></tr>
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This week is finishing drywall and painting, then the following week we should be getting trim and doors and cabinets installed. At which point the doors will be locked, and I'll have to stop at the model to get a key. :(Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-49098381550056522422012-11-19T21:44:00.002-05:002012-11-19T22:32:23.918-05:00Snug as a bug in a rugDue to circumstances outside my control (darn preschool events and bronchitis and sick pets!), I was unable to get out to the house for my usual Friday update. I was really bummed, but also really stressed, so it was probably just as well that I didn't try to add one more thing to the to-do list. So as a family we went by the house this weekend, and FINALLY saw some work done! I'd say we're about 97% insulated...they obviously can't do the attic until the second floor ceiling is installed, and the two storage areas in the basement still need to be done, but the main living areas are all set. Several people have mentioned the need for spray foam behind outlets etc, and I think our PM was way ahead of us there. There was bright orange foam everywhere I looked, including places I wouldn't have thought to put it.<br />
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Drywall has been delivered, piles and piles of it, as well as mounds of joint compound. Boxes of siding are sitting out in the yard waiting for their day in the sun (ha!). I didn't think to check the color or take pictures of it until it was too late, though. :(<br />
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And now, for thrilling and exciting pictures of Spray Foam Stuff!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insulated garage (and drywall on the floor!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spray Foam Stuff around the pipes...on the right is our laundry tub, no idea <br />
what the left is but I need to find out!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Spray Foam Stuff around pipes, I believe I'm on the main floor here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insulated front hall, and if you look close there's a line of <br />
orange Spray Foam Stuff along some pieces of wood.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some sort of Spray Foam Stuff along the window in the living room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spray Foam Stuff behind the box where our morning room light switch will be</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spray Foam Stuff around pipes in our kitchen ceiling</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spray Foam Stuff around the pipes in the laundry room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spray Foam Stuff where the HVAC stuff comes out of the wall (and stuff)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our siding, and does anyone else think the location of the cable box is a liiiiitle close to our driveway? <br />
(The PM is already on it)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have a front door! It'll be black eventually.</td></tr>
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I fully expect this blog post to shoot to the top of the rankings anytime someone googles Spray Foam Stuff now. :) Hopefully today they got a lot done on our house, so that the next time I go the pictures will be a liiiiitle more exciting!<br />
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Neighbor watch:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jessica's lot has a hole! (and my shadow!)</td></tr>
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For Isz:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The alcove wall from the front hall/living room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The alcove wall from the kitchen</td></tr>
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-67908953146805081072012-11-14T21:01:00.001-05:002012-11-15T08:35:06.651-05:00Why do you build me up, Buttercup...just to let me down? <br />
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We stopped by the house on Sunday evening to see whether they had started insulation, but no such luck. I shrugged it off at the time, because I know that the electrician was still working on Friday morning and if he hadn't finished when the inspector got there, no inspection. So I assumed that was the case, and that the inspection would probably happen Monday.<br />
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Today, though, I was expecting to see insulation at the very least, and drywall or siding at the best. What did I see when I pulled up this morning? Nothing. Zip, nada, zilch. No insulation, no drywall, no siding. Not even deliveries of the supplies for any of those things. It pretty much looked just like it did on Sunday. Oh, there were people walking around inside, and a generator/compressor type thing was running by the garage, but without the supplies I don't know what they could have been working on. Does this mean we didn't pass inspection? Without our case number I can't look on the county website to find out. I would really, really hope that our PM would let us know about something like that. If it weren't for the fact that I have no voice at the moment (bronchitis, blech) I'd have been making some phone calls...and as soon as my voice is back I will be. We were really hoping they'd be able to shave a few days off our Dec 19th date, but this is not the way to accomplish that!<br />
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All that aside, I have not been idle...as noted on the last post, my pre-drywall gazillion pictures were taken on Friday and I spent most of the weekend stitching them into meaningful pictures. And let me tell you, I'm glad I did it immediately, because they STILL started to blend together into one massive pile of studs and wires. For those of you who can't do video (I started to, but the iPhone's video lens isn't wide enough for my standards), I highly recommend turning your pictures into panoramas. It is SO much easier to figure out what's where if you can recognize the room based off of two walls and a window or door, as opposed to one wall and possibly nothing else! The newest iPhone OS (6, I think?) has that feature, or if you have Photoshop there's a pretty easy to use tool in there. If anyone would be interested in how I do that, let me know. I've definitely learned that there's a couple tricks to getting a good panorama out of a series of stills. <br />
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Here's a selection of my panos...I didn't crop them to tidy rectangles so as to save as much pertinent detail as possible. As you can see, some have more distortion than others, so even knowing the tricks isn't always good enough if you don't follow them! :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basement door, under morning room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basement, from morning room looking towards smaller storage area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basement, from morning room looking towards smaller storage area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basement, in the larger storage area looking at where all the mechanicals are<br />
(I believe this is under the study)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From living room, through dining room, pantry/powder room, kitchen, into morning room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From family room, through study to garage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wall of the laundry room where the pipes are (also the hallway wall)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen, the electrician is standing in for our stove :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen ceiling - there is a LOT going on up there, so take lots of pictures! <br />
This is only one out of five or six that I stitched together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the master bedroom, looking to the opposite corner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mudroom (with no closet, per our non-standard request) and staircase</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Staircase from study, with lots of HVAC showing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">End of family room, with study door on left</td></tr>
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-21299105252637252162012-11-08T23:22:00.000-05:002012-11-08T23:22:15.297-05:00[Insert clever title here][I was drawing a blank. The one I wanted to use will be better on a later post!]<br />
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We had our pre-drywall meeting this morning...pretty uneventful, but we got to see a bunch of stuff we hadn't seen yet. The electricians were on the job running wires everywhere, and since they were far from done I didn't take as many pictures as expected. The PM is letting me come back tomorrow, when they should be done, to take pictures so we'll know where everything is in the walls. The inspection for electrical is hopefully going to happen tomorrow sometime, and then they'll begin insulation Sat/Mon and drywall by the middle of the week. Siding will start going up at the same time as the drywall.<br />
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In other news, we were able to lock in our interest rate at 3.25% with a credit towards our closing costs. They did put 3% on the table, but half the savings would have been negated by the additional closing costs so we elected to save our cash. Our PM has given us a quasi-official close date of Dec 19th, which is perilously close to Christmas (and will make it harder for me to put a picture of us in our home on our holiday card!) but with any luck they'll be able to get it done sooner.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3 - we have shingles!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1, with morning sun (yes, it streams through the morning room!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The back, with our fixed basement door</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morning room and basement doors (and our PM!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our fixed basement door, from the inside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is plumbing of some sort. And an electrician's backside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the few things not caught by our inspector. PM says they'll put something under it.</td></tr>
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This was kind of interesting...apparently since they build these houses so tightly for the Energy Star certification, they have to install vents in the ceilings to help circulate air within the home. There are several of these black air ducts in the attic, doing nothing more than connecting one room to another.<br />
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This is the side of the house where our garage is. Because it was side-entry, the other side of the house is as close to our property line as possible, while this side is a good bit wider. I'm standing in the back corner (well, not ALL the way back, but on the side line) and our PM is up there at the top of the lot on the property line. This is the area where I plan to have my garden, so hopefully he can do a good job getting it as level as possible.<br />
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And my neighbor Jessica's lot has been cleared! Come on, girl, start blogging! Or I'll do it for you... ;)<br />
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-72087871581963776882012-11-06T22:48:00.001-05:002012-11-06T22:48:34.383-05:00Tick Tock, ClariceWow, it's been a couple days! I went out to the house on Friday (nov 2) during preschool, and was concerned when I saw Moseley (our version of Guardian) was on site. We hadn't ever told anyone where we wanted stuff! Two phone calls and a chat with a technician later, the PM agreed to meet me there and go over some stuff. So I got to walk inside my new house for the first time! And yes, that's both officially and unofficially, I hadn't gone in on the sly either. ;)<br />
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Our PM has been really good about our non-standards and stuff...I asked about framing in the living room openings so that we can put in french doors down the road and he didn't have a problem with that. We got most of the details nailed down (ha!) and he let me hang out and take some more pictures. It probably helped that it was lunchtime!<br />
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In other news, today our Realtor and independent inspector went through the house with the PMs. There were apparently a few fairly minor framing issues but otherwise it was good. They'll be sending me the official report once it's typed up. And our pre-drywall meeting is Thursday morning! Time to go pore over the blogs to find all the questions I need to ask! Feel free to link to your list if you've got one, or someone else's if you know who has it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage full of goodies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The inside of the roof - so cool to see this!</td></tr>
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I won't be able to go to the house before our pre-drywall meeting, most likely, but I'm hopeful we'll have shingles up. And a basement door that's in the right place!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-34991954918773694012012-10-31T22:55:00.000-04:002012-10-31T22:55:24.568-04:00Standing room onlyYesterday (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!<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3, my new favorite place to take a picture<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm guessing from the overall shape and depression that this is our master tub.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing water in our Dining Room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Straight-on the back, where the basement door <br />
is not only in the wrong place, it's the wrong door!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Debris in the basement</td></tr>
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-79869700431494788762012-10-29T09:32:00.002-04:002012-10-29T09:32:13.959-04:00Framing Day 8 (Saturday)Sorry for the blog silence...it was a crazy weekend but I'm finally recovered from the 4 year-old's birthday party. We went by the new house on our way to the party, and we have plywood on our roof.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garage (floor has been poured!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gables, with ominous skies</td></tr>
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We went back post-party (so around 4pm), and there wasn't much different to see (I didn't even get out of the car, but then I had a sleeping toddler, too). In comparing pictures, I think they did seal around the windows some, but that's all I could tell on the outside. Plenty of noise, though, so I guess they mostly worked inside all day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Post-party</td></tr>
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Not sure what the plan is for Sandy coming in...guess I should go call the PM and find out!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-52762776056223303962012-10-26T23:01:00.001-04:002012-10-26T23:01:35.830-04:00Framing Day 7 (Friday)Well, the good news is that our trusses are up!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of the gable structure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gable profile</td></tr>
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The bad news is that I didn't get to see any of it in action. :( Between when the PM called to say the crane was there and they were about to start, and when I was able to get there, they got them all up and the crane spirited away without a trace. This was a matter of two hours! They work fast. </div>
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That was bright and early this morning, so I'm hopeful that they were able to get the roof finished today. We'll see tomorrow!</div>
Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-85112130702286712032012-10-25T23:37:00.002-04:002012-10-31T22:56:08.435-04:00Framing Day 6 (Thursday)We went by early this afternoon to check on the house, and we had trusses!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1, with trusses! And no trucks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mini trusses! For the porch and garage? Or morning room? I'm thinking<br />
that this isn't the orientation in which they will be installed...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Biiiiiiiiiig trusses</td></tr>
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The workers must have been at lunch, because there was only one person in the house. A couple important looking people were talking at a truck parked in front of the house, so we took that as our "official" presence and went in closer than I'd been able to go this week. They didn't object so I guess we were fine. Probably helped that we didn't attempt to go inside.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I see windows! And our garage floor is ready to be poured.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you can see two places where LVL (the bright orange boards) is in use.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They're no longer winning any "cleanest jobsite" awards. :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have basement stairs! And you can see the two steel beams.</td></tr>
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The workers started coming back, so after watching them start to unload the trusses we got out of the way and went about our day. Around 3:30 the assistant PM called and said they had scheduled the crane to be delivered at 5, and they intended to get started on the trusses when it got there. My PMs rock! So we made another trip up there and saw that they were in the process of installing windows. They'd probably gotten about 5 of them installed that I could see...might have been more around back but I had both boys, was by myself (adult-wise!) this time, and there are nails and screws everywhere. We weren't getting out!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the installed windows, plus framework for the porch roof</td></tr>
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Unfortunately the crane was NOT delivered, and though we kicked around in the model for awhile it still wasn't there at 6 so we went home. :( Hopefully tomorrow they'll get started bright and early, and beat Sandy to the punch!</div>
Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-9516748711327628852012-10-24T22:16:00.001-04:002012-10-24T22:16:14.416-04:00Framing Day 5 (Wednesday)As promised, we went by a little earlier today so I was able to take more pictures. The PM was at a house down the road and came over to chat with me when he saw me out with his pictures. Our roof trusses are scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, and depending on what time they arrive the installation could start in the afternoon or Friday morning. I'm really hoping for tomorrow afternoon...we have a wet spell coming this weekend!<br />
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It doesn't look at first glance like much was done, but they've put up most if not all of the interior wall frames on the second floor. We were there at 11:30 am so they hopefully got the ceiling stuff at least started by the end of the day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Around back</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I can see through my house! :D</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awww, it's not wearing a skirt anymore! :(</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have STAIRS!!!</td></tr>
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Mystery solved! This is "<a href="http://www.gp.com/build/product.aspx?pid=1392" target="_blank">Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)</a>" a layered type of wood that's extra strong. Used over windows and doors to spread the load down the sides instead of all on the top, apparently.<br />
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Tomorrow is going to be a super busy day, with doctor appointments for my boys and preparations for my 4 year old's birthday party this weekend (where does time go??). So I'm not sure if we'll make it out there or not. I will have to see what my assistant has to say on the subject. :)</div>
Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-12362865778538589822012-10-24T08:20:00.000-04:002012-10-24T08:20:23.249-04:00Framing day 4 (Tuesday)I squeezed in a very brief visit last night between dropping my boys off at Grandma's and heading to volleyball, so not a ton of pictures. They were still hard at work, so I guess they work until they can't see anymore? Good thing they'll be done before Daylight Saving Time ends!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Around back</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm just a little entertained that my garage is wearing a skirt.</td></tr>
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I'll be going by this afternoon for a more leisurely visit with the younger child, so hopefully I'll be able to take more pictures. And possibly even some zoomed-in shots!</div>
Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-76615333461748422952012-10-23T10:59:00.001-04:002012-10-23T10:59:28.247-04:00Framing Day 3 (Monday)Went by on Monday around 5:30, and here's what we have!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 1, with a pesky van in front!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spot 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe I'll start a spot 4!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">North side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Around back</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carrying in...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...one of those orange boards!</td></tr>
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Can't wait to see what's there tonight! :DAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779127886799985315.post-17791938800989445102012-10-22T23:42:00.000-04:002012-10-22T23:42:10.435-04:00Framing day 2Not much had changed since my Saturday visit when we went over on Sunday, but since there was no one working I was able to take more pictures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not much different than before!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice, orderly supplies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside of our garage</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXqFBL7cqjvXO4GyRb3N9h9P0VC2FmKYDSBzz4_YjHPXElxRJZHsY3HqNiPlIKGkd5PwOfN6pZZgce32lyjDDvw56oDN5hS1Gg63FlJ_zK6fbEBoQ2DLnfqBK2mMlajmw6w5_7jH-KE0/s1600/20121021-4202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXqFBL7cqjvXO4GyRb3N9h9P0VC2FmKYDSBzz4_YjHPXElxRJZHsY3HqNiPlIKGkd5PwOfN6pZZgce32lyjDDvw56oDN5hS1Gg63FlJ_zK6fbEBoQ2DLnfqBK2mMlajmw6w5_7jH-KE0/s320/20121021-4202.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These orange boards (as opposed to the usual pine-color) are intriguing. What are they for?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside our basement, from ground level. Should give you an idea of how many steps we'll have!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our main floor!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Possibly one of the neatest job sites I've encountered in blogland.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a neighbor house, first chance I've gotten to see a side entry garage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks a lot different when it's not being used as an office!</td></tr>
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I did run by the house today around 5:30...lots of new stuff, but it'll have to wait until morning!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870936898058094672noreply@blogger.com9