Showing posts with label Concrete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concrete. Show all posts

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Cutting concrete, insulation and mystery HVAC - Day 74


Today, our concrete buddies came and cut the concrete.
Our oldest "delivered" their bracelets and they donated $5 to him, which made him incredibly excited. One if the workers' brought their 7th grade son and they played football in our yard. It was awesome. We felt very lucky that WH hires THIS type of contractor to do work for them. 
Friday they must have started the install on our electric furnace. We missed that! 

This was a very nice surprise for us. That made for an ultra-productive week with Wayne Homrs - even though we were losing our marbles every night with stress. I think the fireplace is getting figured out (not Wayne Homes), so things should be looking up.

Insulation is done until the drywall is in and then they will blow insulation in the ceilings.  


Drywall is supposed to be delivered Monday and started next week. I believe siding will be started next week as well. We are happy for progress and for our delays to hopefully be kept to a minimum from now until our anticipated 12/20 move-in date. 

Loving the look from the road! Garage doors were installed last week! 








Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Garage floor and porch - Day 70

No pictures today.. I was distracted because the first thing our four-year-old did when we got home was walk on the wet concrete garage floor! I will get some when I get home tomorrow. The crew worked until about 7:30 and even ordered pizza from a local carryout. They were extremely hard workers and extremely polite - even with my four-year-old's mishap!

Wayne Homes' plumber is not our favorite. They seem to have rushed and they messed up our sump pump, so my husband stressed out and had to fix it. Our Field Manager will address this with them. The concrete guys even commented on how the plumbers are so busy they make simple mistakes and just rush to get the job done... he even told my husband they made the same mistake with the sump pump at the last house they were working on. Hopefully this gets fixed. Proactive vs. Reactive, people!

The garage floor looks great - there aren't footprints either. :) The porch looks fantastic too, and I can't wait to be able to use it! Tomorrow, they are pouring the basement floor. They even got the hole/shoot cut out of the sub floor in the foyer for the concrete to be poured. The electrician came and placed 3 of the 5 missing outlets we needed and listed for them, and we gave up on the others. It cost an extra $50 for this trip, but we missed an outlet on our mantle, one in our pantry, one in our laundry room, and two in the foyer. We are still missing the one in our foyer and the one in our laundry room. Hopefully I don't dwell on this because it really isn't a big deal. My husband said the walk-through with the electrician was the most stressful meeting yet because there were so many things to consider, change, decide, etc. and there was so much going on at the house that distracted him (roofers nailing, wires being ran, etc.) that he got overwhelmed.

We are all human, folks.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Concrete is here! Day 31

They are pouring the basement walls today and the weather is perfect!
Our neighbors are awesome and took a few pics while I was at work. It is kind of torturous to know such fun things are going on at home while you are away! 





I wish our boys were home to see this! We are glad they stuck to their word as well. If we had to watch our basement dirt hole keep filling up with water, we were not going to be happy campers. Here comes the fun....