GOOD THINGS

now for the GOOD!
(the builder has more recent pictures of our exterior )

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MOVE IN

We moved in July 4th weekend and have been cleaning up ever since...mold, dust, dirt, misc. construction debris. There was the initial water leak in garage that has been resolved,(we think / pray/ hope no damage beyond where we can see)...prior, there were no gutters on our house for months...(resolved)
There was the unexplained leaks inside our basement into our new furnace (resolved) and subsequent leaks in through new basement window and east wall of basement (still unresolved).
We learned from latest storm that  backyard and garage aren't graded for water to flow away from house...
...

This is just a snippet of our nightmare mess... Over 20 bins of our stuff that was stored needed to be cleaned... We had no choice but to pitch stuff that couldn't be cleaned, just to get the mold out of the house to make it livable...Wool rugs were damaged and thankfully salvaged by drycleaning,...numerous kids toys ruined, 2 golf bags pitched, highchair, stroller, baby activity center, clothes, stuffed animals -all needed to be tossed.


Here are pictures of some of the BAD things...

Sat, Feb 13th....Work continues/ Roof takes shape

Work continued this week and again today for 1/2 day...
Roof is expected to be completed Mon/Tues..

Looking into Master Bath (upstairs) from upstairs hallway window...

FAMILY ROOM, facing EAST

             

Bedroom 3, facing North /  facing Northeast into Master Bath 

Master Bedroom looking east / View of East -backyard- south side of house from Andy's current bedroom

More of Master Bedroom ->

 

Rafters in Master Bedroom, from upstairs bathroom window...

Saturday work!

These guys are amazing!
They worked most the day saturday, continuing with the framing...
Here's all the work that they completed!  -->

Garage Framing in progress/ Basement framing completed.







End of Day Saturday, Family Room is framed/ garage is framed...

 

  

 

Garage ->

Powder Room -->

1st week of Feb....

No work monday,
Tuesday, 12 pm - Excavator showed up to unload some gravel for garage backfill.
Wed, 8:30 am, Excavator showed up to unload more gravel, prep for backfill inspection (I think).
Backfill Inspection passed on Wed.
Backfill completed Thursday...
Framing to start Friday


Side note, today, our side neighbor called to tell us that our outside water appeared to be running. Sure enough, I opened back window and could hear the water running outside myself.

Noone can get to it from outside to turn it on, so wondering how this happened...
I shut the water to the outside to off position from the inside, but will have to investigate how/why this turned on by itself suddenly (is that even possible, or has it been running for days?)....
Cooincidentally, our AC unit was moved when excavators were moving dirt. Possibly, water spigot was bumped or something, but Greg has been outside and looked at foundation walls last week, he would've heard/ noticed water running...

Should we be concerned about pipe freezing on outside? I'm going to check into it and see...
A new water service is planned to be installed, which would be new water pipe, replacing this one....
probably nothing to worry about, but checking anyway...is 27 degrees here today

Sat,... work continues...

Here's some more pics of the foundation.

Waterproofing has been applied and drainage pipes put in place

Tuesday, Jan 26th update #2

inspection passed, concrete walls poured today!
YAHOO! LOVE TO SEE THE CONTINUED PROGRESS!

:)