Progress Report: Week 4- Shingles, HVAC and Plumbing

My oh my has it been a great week of progress at the house!!

I really thought that things would slow down now that framing has come and gone... but it hasn't!
There has been a bit more framing that has happened since last week..

Starting the week off....

They put the stairs in from the basement last week and we had ventured into the basement and "looked up"....

Well, we got more adventurous (and curious) and took those stairs up to check out the inside of the house.... I seriously think that each time we visit I fall more and more in love with this house.



We waited until Tuesday to go out to see how things were going, as we were told shingles were to be delivered and put on this week as well.

Well, the shingles were delivered on Monday.  I did a quick drive-by Monday to check them out...

I wasn't expecting to see the shingles ON the roof in piles, haha! I figured they'd be hanging out on the side of our house waiting.  But nope! There they are, in all their glory!

Our next trip out to the house was on Thursday.  I knew the shingles had been completely put on because I drove the highway home and could see them from the road.  So, we decided to head on out to see everything.  According to our PM, once the shingles had been put on, they would be starting HVAC, plumbing and electric.

And that they did!  HVAC had been started.  All sorts of stuff had been installed in the ceiling! Vents were on the floors and some other air-type hardware had been installed between the first and second floors, as well as the basement!

THEN! We went out today after the Reds game.  We weren't expecting a TON of progress, but there most definitely was!

Lots more HVAC stuff.  Equipment was installed in the basement.  Plumbing had also been started!!!!  Bathtubs were installed!  It's all so so so so so so so amazing!

Check out the photos:

5/22 view from the driveway!  Shingles are on, and our trash bin has been moved from one side of the house to the other, haha!!

Standing next to the front porch.

Water spigot!!! This one is on the right side of the house (porch side)

Morning room/exercise room (basement)

Inside the basement!  All of our hardware for HVAC stuffs.

more hardware in the basement

This is actually looking UP.  We are on the first floor, so this is plumbing for the second floor

Plumbing stuffs for the kitchen and bathroom off of the family entry way.

Morning Room  <3

This part really makes me mad.  These are our blue prints.  They were crumbled up like this in the garage last week.  This week, they're in the family room.  All crumbled and just a mess.  If you watch the video I posted later on... you'll hear me say some bad words regarding these plans.

We're calling this weird thing our banana phone.  It appears like its for electrical somethings, but for us- its the banana phone.

HVAC stuff.  This one is in the second bedroom

More HVAC stuffs

This is in the master bedroom

We loved seeing that our bathrooms had the bath tubs installed today!  This is the hall bath

<3 master bath

Master bath!  Tub, shower, and seat!

stairs going to the second floor

another view of the stairs going to the second floor

in the hall from the family room/front of the stairs, looking towards the garage

hall view.  You can see the front door

standing in the family room looking towards the dining room/living room

morning room <3

Jason standing on the stairs the lead down to the basement

basement stairs, with HVAC stuff to the right

can you see that gorgeous SOLD sign in the window!

And do y'all want a laugh for a second?? All the stuff with the center island, and the island I can't have... and we noticed that on the floor, they've marked where the island is that we are getting.....  Sigh.

And!  As an added bonus.....

We bought a Go Pro not that long ago so that we could video us during Opening Night Ceremonies for the Reds, because we got to hold a big giant flag on the field during the National Anthem.

Anyways- we decided to take the Go Pro to the house with us today and we took video of the house as we walked through it!

Fair warning! I do drop an F-bomb a few minutes into the video.  So if you don't like that kind of thing or get offended, it's probably best to watch the video with your sound off, or just not watch it.

But- you really should watch it.  It's fun, the commentary has me cracking up, and it's OUR house.  It's amazing!

The email from our PM at the end of this week told us that they'd continue HVAC, electric and plumbing this week and next, and then we would have our pre-drywall the following week!!!!!!!

So much excitement!  And we are seriously loving this home and can't wait for the next things to be done!!!

Progress Report: Week 3- FRAMING!!!

What an AMAZING week it has been for the house!!!! We actually HAVE a house! A real house!

So, the last thing that happened was our lumber was delivered.  That was on April 6th, Friday.

Here's a recap of what happened this week... along with photos!

Monday, April 9th:  Basement floors were poured.  We were curious to know if this was even going to happen because we got quite a bit of rain on Monday.  Well, we traveled out to the house and saw this:

They most definitely DID pour our basement floors! They had a make-shift like tarp over the top of the basement foundation so that it didn't get too wet.  We couldn't get any closer than this because it was SUPER muddy from all the rain.  So we had to admire from afar.

However, there was more excitement on the lot besides having our lumber hanging out, and basement floors poured:

Those would be our windows, doors, and staircases!  They looked so pretty just sitting there!


Tuesday, May 10:  Framing was started.  Again, lots of rain on Tuesday, so there wasn't much that had gotten done.  We even emailed our PM to ask if they had started framing, because we didn't want to make that 25 minute drive if nothing had been done.
But, our PM said that they had gotten started, but it was slow and work was intermittent with the rain.

So, we went to check it out!  They were able to start the flooring of the first floor.  Not a whole heck of a lot, but hey!  It had gotten started and we were excited to see something done!

Wednesday, May 11:  This was an exciting day! The entire first floor had been framed!

View from the driveway!! Garage is on the left, Front porch is on the right.  Lots of wood still hanging out ready to be framed.

Left side of the house (Garage side)

Back left!  You can see the morning room from here, and the basement "exercise room" below it!

Morning Room!

Walk out basement door opening!  Living room is above it!

Front Porch!

SELFIE!! In front of our garage!

Thursday, May 12: Weather was uh-may-zing on Thursday!  Well, until we went out to see the progress of the framing.  It decided to POUR when we got there... So no walking around for us, and just viewing from the street....They were able to get the second floor framed though, as well as some of the roof!! It was incredible turning the corner and seeing a nearly FULL house sitting in front of us!  

From the driveway.  Isn't it glorious?!

Right side view

Left side view-- this is actually from the street before you turn onto our street. Eventually, we will have a neighbor on this corner lot.

Friday, May 13:  They finished up the roof today and had wrapped the majority of the house. Windows had been installed.  The garage had been framed the rest of the way, and the porch has also been finished framing, and has the makings of a roof on it too.  The workers were all still there when we visited on Friday.

From the driveway!  Look at that gorgeous blue sky!

view from the right side.

view from the left side

Dry enough to walk all the way around! Back view of the house!

Took a peek inside the basement!  It's pretty wet, but we noticed our basement stairs had been installed!!!!!

Saturday, May 14:  We ventured out today to go see our SR and chat for a few minutes.  She wasn't there (she took the day off)... But we also wanted to see if there was anything else that had been done with the house.  We had gotten an email from our PM on Friday saying that our shingles would be delivered on Monday, and the roofers would be out Tuesday or Wednesday for that.  Also, they'd start rough mechanics once the shingles were done.

No one was working when we went out there.  But, it was dry so we took a couple minutes and walked around and just admired our home. OUR home that wasn't there a week ago.  Our home that was nothing more than a hole 2 weeks ago, and an empty lot 3 weeks ago.  It's so amazing!

view from the driveway.  No workers today so you can see the house in all it's glory.  One of the upstairs windows is broken :-(

I got adventurous and walked into the basement.  It's super wet in there, but I walked to our basement stairs and looked up.  This is what I saw.  It's so very intimidating and amazing all at the same time.  I just adore everything about this photo.

Kinda hoping this isn't the only set of the blueprints for the house.  I had a couple concerns here..  One, look at them all messy and jumbled.  Two, they're just LAYING in the garage.  Three:  They're wet.  I kinda wanted to just take them.  But seriously, I really hope this isn't the only set of prints for the house. 

And there ya have it!  This time last week, we had the start of a basement with the foundation and plumbing.  This week?  There's a whole house standing there!  I am so so so so so happy that we drove out every day, even in the rain, to see the progress of framing.  It went up so quickly and was so awesome to see!!!

Can't wait to actually be able to walk around inside and see things.  We have admired from the edge of the garage and we know exactly where everything is when we look at the house.  But I can't wait to walk in and see each and every part for myself!!!