Another month, another progress report. Spring is in full swing here so we’re having to pick and choose projects based on the weather. But that means we also have to always have a variety of indoor and outdoor items that need to be completed off our punch list. This is what we were able to complete in the month of April: A much needed vacation Completed the hurricane ties and Tyvex wrapping of the breezeway Framing for the hallway soffits…
This could be a post about our anxiety at whether we’re going to be able to get the house livable in just 14 weeks, but its not. Instead, this is a post about the electrical system! I know you’re excited now. Last week we had the first drywall contractor walk through to give an estimate on the project now that they can size it up in three dimensions. I’ve often said drywall is more art than science, and that’s why…
For the first week of April we were on vacation. As in, not taking vacation days to slave away at the job site, but a bona fide family vacation. That meant two full weekends of potential house work lost! But boy did we need it. We’ve been working at the office or at the job site almost every day since Christmas, and it was really starting to take its toll. I can say that by mid-March I was pretty stressed,…
I took this video in December, to show the basic layout of the house in video form. It’s amazing to me how much it’s changed in the last few months. I have a video for the basement and 2nd floor as well and those will come out eventually. I’d like to do video walk-throughs after drywall and then after we’re “finished” to see the progress, so there may be more video tours in our future. I really hate my voice…
Did you read last month’s post about what we got done in the shortest month of 2019? Fairly impressive given the cold weather and short month. These posts (January had some leveling up too!) are helpful to keep 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: Finish rafters, install sheathing,…
Just finished doing a mountain (well, at least a small hillock) of paperwork to file our third loan draw. This painstakingly meticulous process involves recording every expense for which we expect to get reimbursed from our construction loan and validating those with receipts. Some of these are invoices direct from subcontractors which the title company will pay directly. Others are receipts we’ve already paid for which they will reimburse us. Now if we were doing a more traditional build then…
Jim and I often say this to each other. Usually in a mocking sort of way. It’s from a Jimmy John’s radio commercial from probably a dozen years ago now. But it feels like that many days. Especially now with a looming move date. Or maybe it’s just looming to me. We’re on the countdown to get the house through the final inspections so that we can move into the house. And while that is exciting the more pressing part…
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…
Those who have been following along since the early days will recall the long stretches of inactivity last summer. (I still get irritated just thinking about all those delays). Things got more real in the Fall as structure finally started taking shape and we had more than a hole in the ground. We then poured a lot of our holiday break into house project work leading into the New Year. Now, since about mid-January, I’ve blocked off two days per…
I could never pass biology, but I can apparently pass a plumbing inspection. We recently completed all the rough-in for plumbing drains, vents, and supply lines. Below is a gallery of various parts of the plumbing system. The supply lines are various diameters of PEX color-coded red and blue for the hot and cold lines. In one of these new systems its common to have a single manifold with “home runs” to each fixture in the house. It makes for…