Started from the bottom, Now we're here!

This Friday (Day 75), was a productive construction day at the house. Earlier this week there was lots of rain which caused a pause to construction within the community. The masons have been working on the house since Tuesday, and were able to finish up yesterday. The garage door was installed and all of the texture were added to the walls. An email from our SR informed us that were waiting for our cabinets and trim package to arrive what should be any day now. If it doesn't come today I don't think that it will not arrive until about Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. 

Today, we have a consultation with some painters for us to obtain a quote. Wish us luck! 

Just about 2.5 months ago this was our lot!

 And now look where we are!

Our garage door installed. We can't close it to get a better picture being that they have a temporary support beam for the bricks.

Our textured walls!

Until next time,

- The Alexander's 

Pictures of home that hubby took last night

 Inside of the den looking out at the entryway and stairwell where the rot iron baulister handrail will be. 

In the middle if the great room looking towards the wall where the TV will be mounted and coat closet.

Great room looking into the kitchen

Our brick from the front door. I don't know if it is the picture, but I see a lot of red tones. It's supposed to be shades of brown- no red. 

Week 11

10/14/13 Day 71 

Stopped by the house and saw all of the guys working hard to finish out all of the drywall. One of the guys informed me that's. Different crew would be by to do the mudding on the drywall.  It must have been close to 10:30am and they were all in the garage finishing up. 

Day 72

We made an agreement that we would not visit the house until Thursday, since we assumed that it wouldn't change much between now and then. Well 8 hours into my 12 hour workday I had a change of heart. I called up hubby and asked if he could stop by and see if anything has changed on his way home. Being the awesome man that he is- he agreed! An hour later I received an email titled" Time for the Brick". Despite the title, nothing could have prepared me for this:

He didn't go in since the guys were still working, but if you look close enough you can see that the mudding in the garage has been done.

For the past 2 weeks we've received numerous e-mails from our loan officer with different interest rates. After much thought, we decided to lock in our interest rate. Unfortunately it is not as great as rates were when we first started this process, but hey what can you do?

Day 73

Initially, we made an agreement to not go back to visit the house, but yeah I broke down and did it after attempting to get an oil change. It was so rainy and muddy, but I was determined once again to get an up close view of our brick as well as see the inside.  I really love how the brick is coming together, but feel like it's a shade darker then what we initially thought it would be. 

I have no clue what the trailer is there for, because they definitely were not at our house.

My in the car photos weren't cutting it, so I got out to get a better view of the brick. 

After seeing the brick, I woke up with a little anxiety and felt the need to start scheduling estimates for painters, measurements for blinds, and quotes for movers. We went out to Home Depot and scheduled for them to come out and measure the morning of October 30th.We have 2 estimates scheduled- one this Saturday and the other October 24th. I haven't gotten an estimate for any movers just yet, but trust and believe that is on my to do list for before I go back to work on Friday. 

 I am going to try to put together a post of our house buys so far, if not this week maybe next week.

Until next time,

-The Alexander's

Drywall pictures

We did go to the house yesterday morning as promised. The entire upstairs and half of the downstairs has drywall. We noticed they covered some of our windows and the back door, but I assume they will be making those cuts when they come in today. 

Standing in the master bedroom looking at the master bathroom and hallway

Standing outside the master bedroom looking towards bedroom 3

Looking down to the landing from upstairs. You can kind of see some light peeking through the drywall at the bottom of the stairs; that is a window that has been covered.

Standing in the Great Room looking towards entry hall and coat closet

We have walls

We went by the house not to long ago and noticed that there was a man walking on stilts and numerous other people inside. Come to find out they were installing our drywall. Hubby wanted to ensure that they added the extra deadwood in the master so we could mount or TV, but that space was already covered. We of course didn't want to slow them down or distract them so we left right back out and didn't get any pictures. I guess we will just have to go back tomorrow morning. Oh yeah today marks Day 69.

There was no progress yesterday (Day 68), and on Thursday (Day 67) all plumbing corrections to bath 2 were made.

I will do my best to update with pictures tomorrow after our visit. 

Until next time,

-The Alexander's

Week 10

This has been one of our slower weeks, where not much has happened, but we know this is in preparation for our upcoming drywall.

Day 64 (10.07.10)- We had our pre-drywall meeting with our P, Travis, where we went over all of our specs and confirmed that everything was in the right place. We had no major issues, with the exception of our plumbing in Bath 2 still not being changed. He re-assured us that it would be fixed before the end of this week, being that drywall is supposed to start on Friday. Our PM realized that we were missing an outlet needed for all of our guardian goodies that are in a box in the master closet so he is going to have the electrician back out to add that along with an outlet for TV wall mount in our bedroom. We came armed with plenty of Sharpie's so that when it was over we could add our prayers/blessings onto the studs of our home. Shout out to Stacey over at Savoy-r-ing The Moment for the great idea. Later that evening all of the insulation had been added along with the rounded corners for the entryway to the den.

Day 65-  Nothing happened

Day 66- Deadwood was added- so that the TV can safely be mounted to the wall.City and private inspector came out for insulation inspection, and it passed. Hopefully they will start drywall tomorrow, and the masonry's will be beginning our brick early next week.

  

 

Right next to the front door

Entryway wall

   

The low wall bar in the kitchen 

Psalm 23. A family favorite added to the dinning room

We added an "In Memory " stud 

Rounded corners for our den/office

It already feels a little toasty with all this insulation

Living Room wall mount and conduit

Master bedroom mount and conduit. PM is going to have someone add more supports to the bottom since the gaps are currently to large.

The best of it all is that our closing date has been set for November 25th!!!! Our PM states that next week they may change this to a week earlier, because he thinks our home will be complete by this time next month. I don't want to get emotionally attached to the thought of closing early until we know for sure, but the 25th sounds great.

Until next time,
- The Alexander's

Weeks 8 & 9

So much has happened in the past week and a half. We currently have all of our plumbing (some of it in the wrong spot) all of our electrical works (missing a few outlets here and there) and the beginning of guardian's wiring has been completed. 

 Remember the knee space that we fought to not have in Bath 2? Well upon one of our many visits we noticed that the plumbing was placed in the wrong spot as if it was still being mapped out for the single sink with vanity counter. Our PM, Travis is awesome and as soon as we expressed our concern, he was right on it. He did confirm that the crew placed the plumbing in the wrong spot and made notes on the wall for it to be corrected. Travis states that even with the necessary changes he expects to be ready for drywall by the end of this week. He wound up having to leave out of town for the remainder of the week so he scheduled our pre-drywall for Monday morning!!! We were initially told that once we hit drywall stage we are 4 weeks out from closing. So lets hope that is true! If so we should be closing early November, but on Monday we will have our closing date. 

Week 8 

              Day 50 (09/23/13) We noticed that our garden tub in the master bedroom  had arrived as well as our bricks!

           Day 51 (09/24/13) All air conditioning and duct work was completed.

           

           Day 52 (09/25/13) Both tubs were installed 

 

               Plumbing in Bath 2 in the wrong location

Day 53- All electric work was started

Day 55- PM marked up corrections to be made to Bath 2

We also noticed that the windowsill in the master bedroom had been all scratched up. Possibly from bringing something in through the windows.

Week 9
                     Day 56 (09/29/13)- Me being the genius that I am, thought it would be a great idea to step in the darker mud. Yes I knew it rained the day before, but I just knew that mud was no where as soft as stepping into the lighter mud. Uhm, yeah I was wrong. It was like stepping into wet quick sand.

Luckily I had on my cheap Old Navy flip flops. As you see my feet had a mud bath. I guess that's why they are super soft now. Our neighbor 2 houses down who moved in about 3 weeks ago was super sweet and offered us her hose so that I could get it off. Thanks again V!

Despite the little mud-hap  nothing was standing in between me getting in that house. Hubby found some wood pieces and made a little walkway for us to get in. Mud-1 Alexander's- 1! Once we got in we noticed that the electricians forgot to add an outlet at 5.5 feet for when Guardian adds the other goods to the wall. We also think that we will need a horizontal stud or another 7.5 feet one to allow us to properly mount the TV on the wall. We decided to bring it up in the pre-drywall meeting.

Day 57- Guardian has been by to add all of their goodies in the house. Below is the conduit that we added to the family room and Master bedroom walls. 

Until next time,

- The Alexander's