House Leveling up- February 2019
Did you read last month’s post about what we got done in the first month of 2019? It was the inaugural post of keeping track of all the things done and undone on a month-by-month basis. Keep checking back right around the beginning of each month to get the status update.
Back with our monthly feature of what we accomplished this month:
- All plumbing supply lines run, vents connected and through the roof
- Radon pipe connected and through the roof
- Chimney cap, fireplace flue, and B-vent for water heater completed
- Passed fireplace rough inspection
- Passed garage electrical final inspection
- Filed for house electrical permit
- Fixed plumbing that failed 1st rough inspection
- Passed rough plumbing inspection
- We have HOT WATER!!!
- Framed half walls in loft, front entry, kitchen, reading nook near loft, and master shower.
- Also framed the coat closet / cat box closet, sidewalls under the stairs, and the center stair railing.
- Framed walls and rafters for breezeway
- Installed all electrical outlet and switch boxes in their designated locations (the kids did this!)
Here’s what we hope to accomplish next month (March already?!):
- Pour porch slabs? Please…
- Go on vacation
- Finish HVAC rough in and pass rough inspection
- Install windows, sheathing, Tyvek, and tar paper roof for breezeway
- Electrical rough-in work (running wires and installing breakers)
- Bring the power connection in from the garage to the house main breaker panel (through the newly framed breezeway!)
2 thoughts on “House Leveling up- February 2019”
This is tremendous progress during the worst weather and available daylight. I expect your momentum to ship upwards as the interior takes on shape after electrical, insulation and drywall. Now the checklist: what needs to be completed for Certificate of Occupancy? How does that compare with Amy’s “must have done” list:)
Building inspector says we can delay one of the bathrooms if we have the others (at least one, really) completed. We would just need to pull a separate permit for that bathroom finishing later. He had to go to the head of the building safety office to puzzle out the answer on my basement insulation but they decided as long as it wasn’t stacked down there (a fire hazard) then we could move in. They would issue occupancy contingent on completing the basement walls which would be later inspected. We’d need to insulate and drywall in short order to keep from having exposed styrofoam walls, essentially. The basement ceiling has to be drywalled though, for what that’s worth. You must also have “a clear path for emergency personnel” which means something approximating final grade, though not necessarily a driveway. Fascinating stuff, if you are into this sort of thing. Which of course, we are!
As to what is on Amy’s “must have” list, I’ll leave it for her to say.
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