Could it be true??
I was talking to Joe earlier tonight and he mentioned that the final inspection is currently scheduled for August 6th. That final inspection is when the inspector walks through the house and looks at everything that he hasn't looked at before. If/when he signs off on the inspection, that's when the house is done! The Parade of Homes is that following weekend.
This week the electrician and the flooring contractors have been spending alot of time at the house... as has the siding guy.
The flooring guys have all the hard-surface floors installed now and should be starting on the tile shower in the master bathroom next.
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| entry foyer flooring (ceramic tile) |
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| master bathroom (ceramic tile) - staggered pattern |
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| master bathroom |
The electrician has been busy all week, installing the ceiling "can" light fixtures and the outlets, switches, and cover plates. He has most of them installed now, and has asked that we deliver the exterior light fixtures (flood lights in back yard and garage lights in front) to the site by the end of next week.
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| lights going down the stairway |
The siding guy has been busy all week in the high-90 heat putting up more siding. He now has most of it done.
You can see that the garage doors also were installed this week... The steel mesh was installed today over the blue tyvek paper just below the siding line on the front of the house, and if you look closely to the right of the entryway there's a layer of brown mortar that was applied today in preparation for the stone to start going on (tomorrow?).
The cabinets didn't arrive today, so we're still expecting them any day now.
Also in my conversation with Joe today he mentioned that the interior doors and trim will arrive next week Thursday....
We're close enough now to the "end game" of this entire process that the plans are getting pretty solidified for the remainder of the project:
- Dion will be installing the septic/mound system on Monday of next week....
- The cabinets and tile shower should be done between now and the end of next week...
- The plumbing fixtures would go in after the cabinets are installed
- The interior doors/trim should start late next week.
- The excavator will have next week or the week after to complete his finished grading work.
- The owner-supplied (i.e. - non-"can" fixtures) light fixtures will go in in the next 2 weeks
- Ken Stencil from Denmark will be out on the 23rd to pour the concrete driveway slab
- The landscaper will be out to put in the lawn around the same time Ken is doing the driveway
- The carpeting will be installed
As you can see there's alot of very detailed items to be completed yet, but we still overall have almost a week of cushion built into the schedule in case something unexpected comes up.
Paul
