Week 6-- Insulation, Drywall and RATE LOCK!

What a fun and exciting week for us!

Monday was Memorial Day, so nothing was done on the house.
Tuesday and Wednesday, insulation was installed.  We went out on Wednesday night to check it all out, and to go over the "issues" that we had so that we could address it all at our pre-drywall meeting the next day.  We were super happy because it was POURING down rain when we went out on Wednesday.  We were hoping it would rain because we wanted to be able to check out a couple of leak spots to see if they were still leaking, and to video it if needed to show our PM the next day.

On Thursday, we had our Pre-Drywall meeting.  Click it if you haven't read it.
I wasn't 100% sure what to expect, but the meeting went smoothly and quickly.  We went over all of our electrical, our selections, and were "officially" shown the house (lol).

We had two issues that we needed addressed, and both had been taken care of.  We wanted to move the cable that we had chosen for our family room to a different wall.  We were able to get in touch with Guardian, and they came out and did that.

The other issue was that we didn't see the fan in the morning room.  When we went out over the weekend, we saw it installed! Yay!

So, according to our PM, we had insulation inspections happening on Friday and as long as those passed, they would start drywall.  We drove by on Saturday after we took our pup to the vet for shots and we saw guys in the house working!  So we assumed inspections passed :-)

Then, Sunday, after our Reds game, we went out to check out the progress.  It's so crazy how much it is all coming together and appearing more and more like a house.

So far it looks like they've hung drywall in all of the upstairs rooms and areas, and the basement.  About half of the walls were hung on the first floor.

And now pictures!! We will probably head out a couple of times this week to see the progress! Hoping to see the taping and the mudding and all of it!!

Oh!!! And a couple of other exciting things-- we noticed that the garage door had been installed!  You can kinda tell in the photos, but it's all the way up so it's hard to see it.

And-- we locked our rate with NVR.  Our loan officer had said that he didn't think we were going to get the rate we were hoping for because of the way rates were trending... but on Friday, he called and talked to hubby because they had gone down!  So we went for it and locked! We are super excited and it totally works out for us in every aspect!

Okay.

Now for pictures:

Living room (front room of the house)-- insulation!!

Family Room!  I took this photo bc it has our NEW cable spot!

drywall everywhere!! {and nicely insulated walls}

Insulation in the basement (unfinshed parts of the basement)

"can lights"  aka recessed lighting

Garage insulation (and drywall on the ground)

Sunday visit-- new packages!! This is our siding!

rough-in in the morning room for our fan/light fixture :-)

The "half" drywall finish on the first floor.  It pretty much looked like they got all of the top halves of the walls hung downstairs. This angle is the kitchen, when standing in the morning room.

Recessed lights <3

Looking from the kitchen/morning room into the house.  The rooms in the hall will be the dining room and then the living room.

View from the living room looking towards the kitchen

View standing near the front door.  This is the hall closet in the foyer.

Another view from the front door looking down the foyer.

Upstairs!  Standing in the doorway of one of the bedrooms, looking towards the laundry room and hall bath.

Loft <3.  I love our elevation and the extra little nook and window we get with it!

Looking into bedroom 3

Master bedroom view from the doorway

Inside the master bedroom looking towards the door.  This is the approximate spot of our bed.

Master bath <3

Laundry room!  This is one of the rooms that seemed to grow by adding the walls.

My one gripe about this house {well, besides not getting the kitchen island I want....}
The small panty.  It looks like they haven't finished cutting the drywall on the right side.  haha!

Stairs heading down to the basement

Finished insulation in the unfinished parts of the basement

Finished basement <3

Our gorgeous home. If you look closely, you can see the garage door.  Barely.

I think the plan for this week is to continue on with the drywall.  I THINK our PM mentioned that they'd start siding this week too, and that would be done before they'd do stonework or anything like that.  He also mentioned that they'd be pouring the front porch too {yay}! I really wanna walk through the FRONT DOORS of the house and not crawl through the garage, lol.

And, if you haven't read the pre-drywall post, it sounds like our closing won't be until the end of July.  That's cutting it close for us getting out of our townhome and such-- but we will make it work!  Hopefully we hear more information this week about when we will actually close.  I really really wanna put up a countdown to closing!

Hope all of y'all had a great weekend and your homes are all coming along nicely :-)