In addition to real live electricity being turned on at the house earlier, work continues at a pretty good clip at the site. Let's check in, shall we?
yard work
They started work on the landscaping, first "clear-cutting" and grading everything.
Since we have a lot (and I mean a lot) of mulch and rock, there will also be a lot (and I mean a lot) of weed barrier laid down:
Some of the rock (the light rock) is here:
Hopefully that's bigger than "kitty-litter" size...
Here's one of the bits of grass that we will have (it will be inside of the rectangle). Glad to see them using steel edging.
Unfortunately there was some collateral damage to the driveway that they will have to fix...
mirror mirror on the wall...
And the mirrors are in (except for the powder, which is waiting on us and we are waiting on the sink and lights to go in first).
Hard to see in the photo, but the lights are gorgeous, much cooler than the photos. Absolutely perfect. Big smiles all around.
"Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the most shocking of them all?"
Here's the mirror in the upstairs bath:
HVACing
More progress on the HVAC with the thermostats installed and evidence of configuring in the mechanical closet.
Wished they had not placed the one above right at the edge (actually hanging slightly over the edge) of the wall. sigh...
let there be (more) lights
The electrical is progressing:
A few more lights are up besides the ones in the master bath. There are bulbs in the dining room chandelier:
The IKEA hanging lights in the stairwell are in, but without the "flowers":
Saw the installers today, and they said they left them off because of dust and will wait until the very end. Smart. With the metal work upstairs, there's this nasty fine-grained electrostatic metal dust everywhere. And it seems to like flowers.
There's power to the PH-5 in the entry:
There's a light in the pantry:
There's a light in the buds-n-suds room, but it's the wrong one.
wood for the wood floors
A lot of back and forth on the wood floors. Builder not keen on the quality of our (primarily aesthetically driven) choice and we weren't keen on his much-more-expensive-than-the-budget (and aesthetically inferior alternative) choices. Now that the wood is here, the variation is not as great as we would like, but we like how it compliments the cypress. So this wood it is.
tub cleaned (kinda)
There was a general pick-up/clean-up of the house, including the guest tub:
But it still needs a scrubbing!
black = builder
orange = us
general items:
- touch-up paint
- polish concrete floor
- clean windows
- seal sills
- door hardware
- knob
- doorstop
- pocket door hardware
- wood floor
master bedroom:
- art can (partial)
- seal outside door
- outside door hardware
master closet:
- light
- hanger poles (partial)
master bath:
- faucets
- toilet
- tub
- shower faucets
- tub spout
- tub faucet
- drawer plug
- cab adjusts
- touch up tile trim
master hall:
buds and suds:
- faucet
- LED lights
- light
- cab adjusts
rear entry (hee hee!):
- art can (partial)
- level door
pantry:
- hot water control
- cable/data hookups
kitchen:
- peninsula wood
- cooktop electric
- cooktop gas
- fridge
- oven/microwave
- dishwasher
- LEDs
- cab adjusts
- sink faucet
- potfiller
- seal countertop edges
- hood
- hood top cap
dining:
- art cans (partial)
- paint pillars
- crystal
living:
- speakers
- art can (partial)
- LEDs
- touch up cabs
- cab pulls
- seal upper windows to wood?
- floor plugs
entry:
coat closet:
- pole
powder:
- sink
- light
- mirror
- toilet
- toilet buttons
stairwell:
- missing plug
- treads
- hand rail
romeo landing and hall:
- railing (partial)
- gas to furnace
- pendant lights
guest bed:
- closet pole
- closet doors
- closet door hardware
guest bath:
- faucet
- mirror
- light
- tub faucet
- shower rod
- toilet
work out room:
- door hardware
- knob
- doorstop
- ERV cover
- closet bars
- light
- closet light
garage:
- garage door
- entry door
- entry door hardware
- garage door opener
- stain floor
- faucet
outside:
- faucet by master
- plug by master
- cable
- water heater
- gutters
- gas meter
- gas connection
- clean up clean out
- wire to outdoor light
- window bottom at front
- window bottom at back
- seal limestone to door
- roof over limestone
- carport faucet
- paint eyebrows
- seal to cypress?
- clean roof
landscaping:
- north side fence fancy (partial)
- gate side fence
- gate
- south side fence fancy (partial)
- rear fence (partial)
- white gravel in back (partial)
- mulch in back
- pavers
- grasscrete
- black gravel in back
- black gravel in front
- mulch in front
- feather grass
- trees in front
- trees in patio
- tree on south side
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