Another week has come and gone with the home building and we are still loving our progress! I seriously fall more and more in love with our house every time we go out to check things out!
This week, they finished up the HVAC and plumbing, and the electric and Guardian stuff was installed! They also poured our garage, which was great! Doors were installed as well as the basement window.
There seem to be a couple of issues, which we will bring up NEXT WEEK when we have our Pre-Drywall meeting!! It's scheduled for Thursday and we are thrilled to be this far along. There is a leak in the roof where they have a plumbing pipe going out. Gotta have that addressed. There's also a leak by the roof where the kitchen and the morning room meet up. Not sure what is causing this leak. I'm a bit weary about this one as I read a blog this past week about a Ryan Homes home that has had a TON of issues with leaks in about this same spot. Definitely wanna get that checked out.
It also appears like they haven't done the rough-in for the fan/light fixture in the morning room. We added this on way late in the game, and had to pay a change order fee and such for it, so I wanna make sure this is getting done. Not sure if it's just because of the slope of the roof there, and it'll be done later, or if it just got missed.
Also, with all the plumbing that's been installed, I don't see lines for the fridge for the ice maker and such. Gotta check on that.
Other than that, the only other issue we have right now is something that we did ourselves with our Guardian picks and such. We realize now after seeing the layout of the house and how we want to do our furniture in the family room once we get in that it's not going to be a good spot where we opted for the cable in that room. Luckily {keep your fingers crossed for this} we were able to get in touch with Guardian and they're gonna send a tech out on Tuesday to either move the existing cable they installed, or just put a whole new cable in (and we pay for another line). So, we just need to hope they get this done for us.
We went out with Jason's parents and sister today to see the house and show them how amazing everything looks. We got to see that all of our drywall has been delivered and is scattered throughout the house, ready to be hung.
Per our PM, the plan for next week-- Tuesday there will be framing inspections, Wednesday they've scheduled insulation installation, and then we have our pre-drywall meeting on Thursday morning!!
Here are some progress photos: Stay tuned after the photos for a fun story!!
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| Garage with the beautiful floor! So glad this has been poured |
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| This bothered me for a few days, haha! Before this "note" was on there, I had gone through plans and was frustrated bc I couldn't remember where the door was for the powder room off of the family entry. It seemed weird that it was RIGHT next to the toilet. Well, this explains it! They put this piece of framing on wrong. It has since been fixed and all is right in the world of powder rooms. |
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| Excited for plumbing! Noticed that there are several spots where the hole is way bigger than the pipe that has been placed there. Gonna just ask about these, but figure it won't even matter once flooring and all is in. |
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| Washer hook-ups! |
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| Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful bathroom tub and shower! I love both of these so much! |
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| Hall bathroom! Part of me wishes we upgraded the tile around the shower instead of this surround, but I do like the spots where the shelves are and I know I can decorate this bathroom and be perfectly okay with it. |
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| One of our ceiling fan rough-ins |
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| Can lights!! Home of our future recessed lighting :-) |
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| Electric stuff all throughout the house now <3 |
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| This piece of pipe goes out of the ROOF. Not sure what it's for. It caused a HUGE leak when we had storms roll through earlier in the week. Gonna ask about this one. |
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| These just amused me. They looked like giant ole caterpillars or something. And they were ALL over the house when we visited on Thursday. |
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| Electric panel in the basement :-) |
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| This is where it was leaking in the morning room/kitchen. Not sure why, and it's not anywhere near the leak from the pipe upstairs in the master closet. Gonna DEFINITELY make sure this is taken care of and looked into. Hoping for more storms too so we can make sure everything is okay. |
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| All of our doors were installed!! This is the door going from the morning room and will eventually take us to our deck. Right now, it's a straight shot down to the ground. |
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| They dug up a bunch of earth to put in some of these pipes and such. Cables, electric, etc are running through there {I think}. |
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| DRYWALL!!! This was the stack in the morning room, and it's stacked like this throughout the house, basement and garage! |
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| Gorgeous walk out basement door. I love it so much |
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| Last window to be installed, haha!! The itty bitty one in the basement {this is under the morning room} |
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| Front view. You can see drywall stacks in the garage! Gorgeous blue skies too. I just adore our future home. |
And now story time!!
So, I am sure a lot of y'all know about the headache we have had with NVR. We had a helluva time getting our information for all we needed for our mortgage, a less than stellar loan processor, and just an overall hard time with NVR in the beginning. Need a refresher? Catch it all in my
NVR blog post.
Caught up? Okay.
Well, I get a call on Tuesday from our loan processor, Rebecca. She was calling to inform me that she is stepping back from work for more time with her family. We will be getting a new loan processor, who is all caught up on our loan and the information we still need to provide (bank statements each month), and will be contacting us within the next couple of days to introduce herself and to go over any questions we may have. This was said to me both over the phone and in an email that was copied to this new loan processor.
Take note: This happened Tuesday. Today is Sunday. We still haven't heard from this new loan processor. If you can't gather it- I am not too happy about this. I know it's the weekend, and a holiday weekend at that, and I don't expect to hear anything now until next week.... but when someone tells me and sends an email saying that we would hear from her... and we haven't yet?? Yeah. I'm not happy. Not at all. I've sent an email already letting them know this and hope that we hear from them within a day or two after the holiday and get back on track with the better communication we were having.
All in all, we are thrilled with where we are at this point, minus a hiccup or two. And hopefully after our pre-drywall, we are even more happy with everything.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! And for some of you-- I hope you're enjoying your new homes since you've closed on your homes!!
