This week is all about the various trades coming in, from the electrician (whose team was wiring away today,) to the TV/AV wiring team, to the plumber coming Thursday, and the roofer beginning this week. We met with the electrician yesterday and his team of 7 (?) was in full swing today.
Today we also walked through the house with the cabinet guys. The last time we met with them, John and I asked the cabinet guys to include some extras like taking the cabinets in the kitchen and bar up to the ceiling, as well as paneling in the library. Since then we got the total for those extras and let’s just say some of the extras were a bit more than we want to spend. So with today’s walk through, we made some significant cuts on the nice to have elements that halved the overage costs.
Editing cabinets
The HVAC has obviously begun and some of the interior posts and beams have been framed out as well.
Dining room
Beam & duct work
Master bedroom
Laundry room
And finally the painters also painted all the trim and the chimney stucco, so the standing seam roof can begin this week.
Gotta love the pile of garbage in front of the house (*sigh*), and with the recent severe storms over the weekend, we lost a few cedar trees. Thankfully nothing damaged the house or barn construction.
Thar she blows! All the damage we sustained from the severe weather last week.
Things are definitely hopping and it’s already been a busy week with house building decisions. Thanks for stopping by to check on our progress!!
Yesterday the drywall for the house was delivered as the exterior painters finished caulking all of the board and battens and the framers began working on the interior framing.
John pointed out that it had been a while (maybe early December?) since I had baked anything for the workers, so I made them a dutch chocolate cake with salted caramel icing. I also gave the painters a heads up to help themselves because I’m pretty sure Russell, one of the framers, could finish that entire cake by himself! 😃
Cake is served! It was gluten free, but they don’t need to know that!
The doors are now all installed, the new, non-supporting ceiling beam (long story for another post) was being installed, and the bar walls will begin soon.
Thankfully our builder can re-use this big beam since we opted to engineer the great room and master bedroom with scissor trusses instead of this heavy behemoth. Almost sounds like I know what I’m talking about, right?
Earlier this week we did a walk through with the sound, TV, internet, and security system wiring guy. Holy cow – the terminology is like another language from 4K to Cat6, 7, and 8, to 5.1 vs 8.1 surround in the great room… John and I are very lucky that we have friends with vocational and avocational interests in sound systems and they looked over and consulted with us about what we are doing (thanks Jet and Tommy!).
Outdoor speaker placement on the long porch
We have to fit that wiring in after the electrician but before dry wall. Things are really starting to move fast, and John and I are doing our best to keep our heads above water, as the saying goes. The electrician begins Monday, insulation goes in next Friday, and they sheet rock on Monday, 1/20/20. So we better get the stereo/tv/internet/security guy out there next Wed-Thursday, huh?
French doors to the dining room are finally installed!
But the big news is that they painted the house today. Before 1:30 pm…. Amazing.
By the way, that was color C for those of you who played my “Which color should I choose?” game. Although color C did get a vote on this blog (thanks Cuz Bill!), everyone on Instagram voted for D. But anyone who actually came to the home site voted for C (so don’t feel bad).
Above are pictures after a second coat had been applied. John and I like the body color but found that a BIG mistake had been made. The painters were mistakenly told to paint all the exterior doors (as seen below). Wrong! The exterior fiberglass doors have a fir wood finish so they can be gel stained to look like real wood doors. All the beauty of wood doors, none of the warping, shrinking, or maintenance. I immediately called our site supervisor and he assured me it will be fixed. Stay posted for that…
This is a major screw-up… but our builder immediately said they would remove the paint and it will be fixed.
I’ll try to stay on top of the barn construction as well since the windows were delivered today. Until then, thanks for stopping by!
