Our first meeting with a sub-contractor is under our belt!
We had our meeting Monday night with the supplier for the shingles, siding, soffits, interior doors, trim, and stairway components. This supplier also will be providing all the lumber for our house as well. Things like the trusses, subfloors, studs for the walls, etc.
Robin and I were able to pick out the siding and the roofing that we wanted. We also confirmed the styles for the doors, the trim, and all the components of the stairway and railings that we want to have on our house. We didn't pick a stain color for the doors or the trim yet. We'll wait until we pick a stain color for our cabinets and then we'll match the trim stain color to that color. Likewise we didn't pick a color for the soffits yet either, as we'll pick a window frame color and then decide what color soffits we want after that.
This weekend is our next meeting... we'll be meeting with the window and exterior door supplier. In this one we'll confirm the style of windows we're after and choose a color for the frames. We'll also get to pick out the style of entry door that we want as our front door.
Next week we've scheduled the initial meeting with the plumbing subcontractor. For all of the above we have a couple weeks to make all our final selections before things have to be ordered for delivery to the site.
Also, today was the big inspection day... the buyers of our current home had their inspector go thru our house today. If the house passes inspection then the sale is officially a go... well, it passed! :)
So now Robin is working feverishly to find us a place to live for a few months for the time between us moving out of this house and the new one being completed.
As things stand right now, we're still on schedule to break ground next week!
More to come!
Paul
