The final days are near!

This weekend, we are moving our appliances and office furniture. The drywaller may be here to work on a few bad seams, but they also may come Monday. The cleaning lady won't be here until Monday or Tuesday, the carpenters will be here on Monday to finally install the third porch column along with the painters to finish some odds and ends (one being repainting the entire great room wall due to the bad seam...ouch).

The NEW busted island counter top won't be here until February 12th, but we aren't going to wait nearly two weeks to move in because of that.

We will most likely close on Wednesday after they fix the broken transom window in the main bathroom.

We are so excited to enjoy what we have spent the last several years planning. :)

Painters and plumbers

The painters and plumbers came today, so we have a beautiful sink, additional black doors, and a great faucet. We don't have our porch column yet because the carpenters no-showed again. 

Our window pane in the master bathroom was replaced and our slider lock in the sunroom now works. The slider still needs leveled and the main bathroom transom window is still broken. It won't be in until 2/5. 

As of right now, cleaning lady will be here Saturday or Sunday, carpenters Monday, and painters Monday or Tuesday. 

We were given the "ok" to get furniture delivered last week as of Thursday this week, assuming things would be done. We aren't rescheduling any more deliveries, so we will have our office furniture this weekend and couch & love seat on Tuesday. Even though we really wanted keys today, knowing we are so.darn.close, we will get through the next week and appreciate it even more when we can finally move over next weekend. 

Our kids are so excited! We have had a "housewarming gift" wrapped up since December when WH was pushing for us to have the keys 12/20. It has just been collecting dust in our current living room... They can't wait to have their own bedrooms and open this present. 

We can't wait for a lifetime of memories in our new home. 

Master bedroom 

Welcome home!

Laundry room to garage door

Our granite sink and brushed nickel faucet

Nope.

No plumber or painter or carpenter yesterday. The field manager was there taking care of some things, however. He installed our new kitchen counter top and sink since the first was busted. Then as he was anchoring our island counter down he used the wrong size screw and popped through our counter. That's supposed to be in next week. He was pretty mad at himself.

In the bathroom, they ordered the wrong side splashes and the wrong end caps. Again.

We are missing our third column on our front porch and the deadbolt on our basement. Hopefully the carpenters will take care of this tomorrow.

The windows and garage door panel are to be in next week. We are really tired of hearing about how Anderson Silverline's service is "so poor". Our windows have been broken SINCE NOVEMBER 12TH and they "haven't come in yet." Really? If their service is so poor, why would Wayne Homes stand behind them and sell them? One would think poor customer service would be a driving factor in change. Maybe a move to Anderson 200s like their competitors next door should be considered because this so-called "poor service" ends up reflecting poorly on Wayne Homes' reputation. Frankly, it's ridiculous. The current scenario we are in was my husband's biggest concern when dealing with our bank and releasing draws - we are looking at a near-finished house, high utility bills, and still facing broken windows and a list of "little issues" that need addressed. 

In other news, the cleaning lady is supposed to be here Friday or Saturday. That's exciting! The field manager would like to close Tuesday, but given that all if the items won't be done until Wednesday, we will possibly close then. Who knows, though...it feels as if the last 45 days have been a guessing game that have taken forever.

In theory....

According to our FM, many of the crews needed to fix our extensive list of "little things" will be at our home today.

• The carpenters: 
• Install our kitchen countertop that is broken
• Install our third porch column that has been missing for a few months
• Fix the sidesplashes in the bathroom (the wrong ones were ordered)
• Install a deadbolt in the basement 
• Work on waterproofing the walkout. They did some of this yesterday.
• The plumbers: 
• Install the kitchen sink, faucet, and garbage disposal since they couldn't install it in a broken counter 
• The painters: 
• Fix the dings, scratches, and dents in the walls, doors, and trim 
• We went around the house with post-it notes to mark the areas that need attention. Our neighbors even helped! 
• Paint a few pieces of newly-installed trim, including shoe moulding 
• Caulk   

IF this condensed list (the real list is longer) is addressed today, the "cleaning lady" may be here Thursday or Friday and maybe........just maybe, we will have keys.

The catch? We would sign contingent on the rough grade, two broken windows, and dented garage panel.

Crossing our fingers!

That good news...

Even though we didn't think anyone would be here today given that it's currently -13 degrees, both the carpenters and the field manager were here bright and early at 8 this morning. That's good news we weren't expecting and it should help us tie up several loose ends in hopes of possibly closing Friday.

The last few weeks...

Things have been crazy around here and we are crossing our fingers for good news... maybe we will make it by the end of the week if people show up. Mother nature isn't cooperating, however, so we will see.

Plumbers

The plumbers came yesterday and our FM mudded our cracking island drywall. The carpenters are supposed to be here today to tie up loose ends. We may be closing next Friday with some contingencies for WH to finish.