I know I said I was going to do a better job keeping up with this and here we are, almost 2 weeks after my last update. I am truly sorry for the delay.
This is what the house looked like on Friday (Day 65). They appear to be all but done on the outside. They still need to install the lights, front porch, our pillars, and, of course, roll the front lawn. The way the yard looks now, my lawnmower wouldn't make it more than 2 feet. They also need to install our headers over the first floor windows and install gutters.
Inside the house, they finished mudding and taping the drywall and they primed it all so the house is the loveliest shade of flat white. They also installed all of the linoleum. Yesterday (Saturday), the carpenters were in and hung every kitchen cabinet, installed every piece of base molding, and installed every door. They also installed the bathroom vanities, including sinks, and all of the mirrors. There was a minor problem with the kitchen counters. Apparently, they ordered the wrong one. The one that was delivered has about a 5 foot return on it. That would cover our stove which, I have a feeling, would be a bad idea. Talk about a built-in. They also installed a louvered door for the laundry room. It is a required option if you have gas run in for the dryer, which we didn't. Marianne thinks it looks like crap, so we are going to have them put in a standard 6-panel door so that it matches all of the other doors upstairs.
We also got some potentially bad news on Friday. It seems that electric, gas, and phone installations in the development are moving along quite well, but the sewer connections may be a hold-up. They need to connect our section's sewers with the sewers at Phase I of the development. This is almost 1 mile. I guess they have been plugging away at it, but it is still a lot of work. Trent, our project manager, said we may even be pushed out as far as April for closing. That would really suck because 1) we are going on vacation the 2nd week of April and 2) we can't wait to get out of this postage stamp we call a townhouse.
That is about all I have for now. I will try to take some inside pictures this week and post more often, but we'll see how that works out.
This is what the house looked like on Friday (Day 65). They appear to be all but done on the outside. They still need to install the lights, front porch, our pillars, and, of course, roll the front lawn. The way the yard looks now, my lawnmower wouldn't make it more than 2 feet. They also need to install our headers over the first floor windows and install gutters.
Inside the house, they finished mudding and taping the drywall and they primed it all so the house is the loveliest shade of flat white. They also installed all of the linoleum. Yesterday (Saturday), the carpenters were in and hung every kitchen cabinet, installed every piece of base molding, and installed every door. They also installed the bathroom vanities, including sinks, and all of the mirrors. There was a minor problem with the kitchen counters. Apparently, they ordered the wrong one. The one that was delivered has about a 5 foot return on it. That would cover our stove which, I have a feeling, would be a bad idea. Talk about a built-in. They also installed a louvered door for the laundry room. It is a required option if you have gas run in for the dryer, which we didn't. Marianne thinks it looks like crap, so we are going to have them put in a standard 6-panel door so that it matches all of the other doors upstairs.
We also got some potentially bad news on Friday. It seems that electric, gas, and phone installations in the development are moving along quite well, but the sewer connections may be a hold-up. They need to connect our section's sewers with the sewers at Phase I of the development. This is almost 1 mile. I guess they have been plugging away at it, but it is still a lot of work. Trent, our project manager, said we may even be pushed out as far as April for closing. That would really suck because 1) we are going on vacation the 2nd week of April and 2) we can't wait to get out of this postage stamp we call a townhouse.
That is about all I have for now. I will try to take some inside pictures this week and post more often, but we'll see how that works out.
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Wow! It's looking great!
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