Pre-Drywall Meeting

Well... our pre-drywall meeting has come and gone.  It took about 45 minutes to walk through the entire house.  The main purpose of this meeting seemed to be pointing out all of our electrical stuff and what controlled what.

Insulation has been installed in about 98% of the house.  There's a small part of the unfinished basement that our PM pointed out still needed to be done.  Insulation inspections will be tomorrow and they'll start drywalling either Saturday or Monday, pending a passing inspection.

Our PM also went through and answered any questions that we had, as well as making sure all of our Guardian stuff was in the right place, and add-on stuff like ceiling fan rough ins.

So, the issues that we had were all addressed and easily answered, which made me happy!

We were "lucky" enough that we went out to the house last night and it was POURING down rain.  I really really hoped it would rain so we could see leaks in action and make sure they were addressed.

• The"leak" from the roof in the master closet because of what looked like a plumbing pipe-- that is most definitely a pipe connected to plumbing, and if I remember correctly, its basically a vent to make sure the plumbing pipes don't get backed up with pressure bc of toilets and such (use your imagination here-- and think gassy things, lol).  This was most definitely still leaking with the downpour last night.  Our PM says that they put a "boot" over it to prevent that from leaking.  We also noticed on EVERY house in the neighborhood, that they all have this pipe and all have the boot looking thing over it.  So I fully trust our PM saying this.

• The "leak" from the kitchen/morning room.... with the downpour, this wasn't leaking at all.  I'm not sure if this is because of the insulation being put in, but it all looked good even this morning.  Our PM mentioned that it could have been from the leak above where the eventual "boot" will be.  It's also frustrating me to no end that I can't find the darn blog where the people had the leak in this spot that they've dealt with over and over again.  I really wanted to show it to hubby.  My fault for not bookmarking it.  So, if you happen to read this and that blog belongs to you, or you know which blog I'm talking about-- PLEASE let me know, haha!!! It's seriously driving me nuts.

• Rough-in for the fan/light fixture in the morning room- Our PM knows this hasn't been done and will be making sure it's installed.  Because it was a late change order for us is why it's not there but he's fully aware it needs to be.

• Plumbing lines for the ice maker:  They run this through the basement.  That way the line isn't coming up through the floor.  Essentially, there will be a hole in the wall going from the fridge down to the basement and you just connect the line to the plumbing pipe and VOILA! Ice maker should work.

• Our Guardian cable dilemma:  It's been fixed!! They came out and installed another cable line for us where we wanted it between the two windows!  I thought they just moved the cable to that location, but our PM pointed out that the original spot we picked still had cable lines there, so yay!

And- with our NVR stuff-- I had sent an email out over the weekend to the new point of contact that we have as our loan processor.  She replied on Tuesday and set up a time to talk to me.  The reasoning for NOT getting in contact with me was because our loan was back with the underwriter and she was waiting to hear back from the underwriter before she contacted us, so that she could go over things with us.  Legit excuse, I guess... but why not email me and let me know that's what you're waiting on???

Oh well.  Things are good with our loan, we've been discussing locking our rate but will still be waiting a little bit it sounds like.  Depends on those rates. LOL.

And, the not so great news... and not that it's bad news-- after our pre-drywall meeting, we talked about closing dates.  Our PM has us scheduled to close the very last week of July.  

Sigh.

I was secretly hoping it would be sooner, so this was a bit of a bummer.  It works out, and as long as we don't have to extend our lease with the apartment we are in, I'll be happy... but I was secretly hoping for a sooner date than that.  This isn't the "official" word on closing though, and he'll update us on that once the drywall goes up.  But I'm just telling myself now it'll be the end of July like he says.

PM says that up next will obviously be the drywall, and then they'll start siding.  They'll do the siding before the stone.  They'll also be pouring our front porch soon (yay!).  The front porch is currently a series of like, 3 holes filled with dirt.  I can't wait to actually be able to walk in the front door!!!

Now for a few questions for anyone that reads our blog:

Appliances and other things that need to be bought before or right at move in:  When were you all told you could purchase them?? We will definitely need a fridge when we move in.  

I asked our new loan processor about this, as the 4th of July should bring some good sales for buying stuff.  She told me that we should be "ok" to buy and/or open a credit card (like with Home Depot or someone, for example) as long as we have the money saved (and are able to show we have it) for our closing costs and such.

HOWEVER--

Our loan officer and my hubby had a chat and he told hubby that we should, under no circumstances, do this.

These stores normally do "same as cash" for so many months if you get a card from them, and that was our initial thought, but we don't want to do ANYTHING that's going to mess up closing and getting into our home.  But we don't wanna miss a good sale either.

So what were you told?

Also- we are taking recommendations on refrigerators.  Stainless steel and side-by-side are our requirements at this point.  We *think* we prefer the ice maker to be inside the door and not taking up shelf space.  

We are debating this one:

I love the little door that you can open up to grab stuff from the door shelves.  I've read some reviews that don't make me too happy-- about the door not closing properly and having to slam it shut, etc.  Not sure if I wanna deal with that just to have a fridge that looks cool. No pun intended.

Here's the link to the fridge if you're curious about it.  I pulled it from the Home Depot website, but it can be bought at almost any retailer that sells refrigerators.

Thoughts?  Ideas?  Any help given is appreciated, haha!!

More updates on the house progress on Sunday! Hoping to have drywall to show y'all!!!