We finally got all of our paperwork from the surveyor to our electric company, so they can begin processing our request to get electric hooked-up. We were instructed exactly where the meter had to be placed on the house, or they would deny our service. We then had to go purchase around 60 more feet of wire/conduit to get the box to where they are requiring it to be located. Makes no sense to me how they can tell us where the box needs to be located, when they do not even come and read the meters any more anyways. More money for wire, and now prolonged installment. My husband talked with them and they said the estimated day for hook-up is between now and August 5th! We were originally told that it would be 5-10 business days to be hooked-up, now it is more like 20! He also stated it could be as early as this week, but if your box is not installed and prepared for us, you will go to the bottom of the list. Right now I am over 8 months pregnant, August 5th is cutting it pretty close to my due date and our "closing date" on our loan for our rate lock to stay in place. Needless to say my feelings toward this electric company are not good ones.
My contractor was going to start on the porch on Friday, however the rafters that had been ordered specifically for the home, were not specific to the home at all. They were going to cover up the transom window on the front of the house, and cover the top of the front door. If he moved them up to not cover the transom, they would cover up 6" of each of the dormers on the roof. Now we are starting at square one again and my contractor is going to build each rafter.
Friday afternoon on my lunch break, my family and I ran to pick up the air conditioner unit we ordered it was a pretty straight forward transaction, we got the condenser unit, the a-coil, and the lines. We loaded them up, I went to work, my husband and daughter headed to our house to unload it. This should be the end of this story, however they unloaded the condenser unit, opened the box to look at it, there was a huge dent in the top of the unit. Just our luck, so my husband loaded it back up and drove the hour back to the place we purchased the unit to get it exchanged. He got it exchanged and unloaded. No dent this time, he checked before he left their parking lot this time.
We are having a difficult time finding someone to hook up our heat ducts, we contacted a local company about a month ago to come and give us a quote to hook-up the components. This is all we are looking for, a hook-up, we have all the components that we need, we just need someone to come and hook us up. The guy finally came back to give us an estimate on Friday afternoon, he believes we should replace all of our heat ducts, because he does not believe they will work well enough, and his quote seemed very high. We have scheduled for another local company to come and give us a quote to hook up the system, we will have to see what this quote comes back at, and go from there, it would be nice to have air (that is once we get our electric hooked up).
Over this weekend we completed the ceramic foyer entrance (minus the grout that will be completed tonight or tomorrow), finished the trimming, (baseboard & quarter round), we seamed the carpet, touched up paint, cleaned, cleaned, & cleaned. We also moved a few loads of boxes to our house and are storing them in our attic. I feel the need to be able to start un-packing and getting the house semi-organized before the baby comes.
It was a hot and tiring weekend, but we made progress inside the house. Now just hoping for progress outside the house this week!.
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