Week 6: "Guts" Work Continues

Week 6 - June 20-26, 2016



6/20 - day 36 - HVAC/plumbing

6/21 - day 36 - HVAC/plumbing

6/22 - day 38 - Pre-Drywall Meeting!

6/23 - day 39 - Electric

6/24 - day 40 - HVAC/plumbing/electric?

6/25 - day 41 - HVAC/plumbing/electric?

6/26 - day 42 - visit




Not much new or exciting to report that wasn't covered in the Pre-Drywall Meeting post from mid-week. We don't even have pictures.
It was all "guts" work all the time. Seemingly slow work on HVAC, plumbing, and electric.
We walked through Sunday evening and found almost everything completed.
Electric started after our pre-drywall meeting, so that was fun to see. It did appear that they had heeded my request (thanks other bloggers) to wire the garage carriage lights up to the front door with the switch for the front porch lights. Yay!
Did notice more spray paint notes likely from our PM to the framers on cleanup work we requested and other stuff he seems to have found on his own. Glad someone else is checking that important work!


Looking like this week will be framing fix-ups, insulation, spray-foam, inspections, etc.
Thursday night is looking the night the "elves" will sneak in to insulate the garage.


Can't wait to move on to drywall! This part is so not exciting!

Week 5: A Roof and the Guts begin!

Week 5 - June 13 - June 19, 2016

Framing Continues

6/13 - day 29 - A roof! We have shingles on the roof!
6/14 - day 30 - Electric service installed
6/15 - day 31 - HVAC rough-in begins
6/16 - day 32 - HVAC continues ?
6/17 - day 33 - ?
6/18 - day 34 - family walk through
6/19 - day 35 - no work








Pre-Drywall meeting date confirmed:  6/22 (day 38)



The roof being shingled on Monday was the last noticeable progress on the outside this week. Which is good, because that means the work moved inside, and won't be as affected by weather.
PM's text (which I had to initiate again) confirmed that we could expect electric and HVAC work to begin, we confirmed this with a family walk-through on Saturday evening. Not much exciting to report, unless duct-work is your thing. But we definitely began to notice problems.
Biggest one: we appear to be missing walls in a few places. Now I'm not a trained builder...but I'm pretty sure we need those.


First spot with just wrap over framing: top corner of garage.
Second spot with just wrap over framing: A crap-ton of the attic. For real. Did they think no one would notice? WTF. Maybe the guys who would come to install the siding would have realized it when there was nothing to nail to?


Luckily, Hubs has a long-term customer who's a former Pulte Homes project manager, and now owns his own construction company, who offered to act as our free(!) private inspector. He's scheduled to join us at the pre-drywall meeting this coming week. Let's hope he's brutal. :)


And with no further ado, pictures.

Day 29:A shingled roof!

Day 31: Fireplace rough-in

Day 34: HVAC Ductwork

Day 34: BoBo Brand HVAC Unit

Day 34: Look Ma, No Walls!

Day 34: Something missing here too...