Weekend Fun!

Friday evening we went to the house to see the progress, it looks great! We have a garage door, and our porch railing is complete (minus the hand rail to go down the stairs).

This weekend we moved furniture to our house so that everything is now at our house instead of spread out in our families basements, buildings, and garages.  (We still have to move all of our stuff we use daily at my parents house, but we won't be doing that until we have water, air, our occupancy permit, etc...)  This house is so much bigger than our first house, but I can't seem to be able to fit everything where it belongs.  The weekends go by very quickly when we spend all of our time at the house, but soon it will be complete and we can all enjoy it (with a new baby too!)

My due date is in 5 days....let's see what else we can accomplish before baby comes!

Things are still progressing....

We had a deadline to be complete by today, we are close.  This morning our garage door was installed, and my contractor started on the railing for the porch!  I am so excited to see the porch completed!

We have plans on moving furniture and doing small projects this weekend, hoping to move in soon!

Workers workers everywhere!

This morning my husband and daughter visited the site, to see what was being accomplished this morning.  My husband said there were people everywhere.  The siding crew was there, my contractor and his crew, and the guy doing to the excavating.   I am very interested to see their progress when I get off work today!

(I will post photos tonight of the completed jobs)!

Stress......

The house is supposed to be completed by the contractor on Thursday this week, however he told me yesterday, the vinyl for porch railings won't be in until Friday.   More waiting.......

We did get a sidewalk today, and our garage ceiling and the garage wall that is the house wall got drywall.  Tomorrow a siding crew is supposed to finish the siding on the garage and the window end of the basement, as well as install the soffit on the porch ceiling.

We still do not have water, we are waiting for the pressure tank to be installed by the well guy, and then we should be in business to do some major cleaning!

Yesterday we went shopping for a dining room table, we found a few we liked, but did not make a purchase.  The list of household needs is small, so at least we will be able to comfortably move in, whether moving in or the baby comes first we will have to wait and see!

Oh and the bank still wants more paperwork!

POWER

We FINALLY have POWER!

When is this going to be complete?

I have reached the point that it feels like we are never getting our house.  In the past week we have run into more than a few issues.  The rain on Monday, the electric company, the bank, the list goes on.

The electric company called for a locate last week, and the work order they sent said start date on the 23rd, well the 23rd came and  went and no electric.  My husband called yesterday and got 5 different stories from 5 different people that work there.  The first lady said we should set up an appointment, why on earth would they tell us now to set up an appointment???? It was requested weeks ago, and the engineer even spoke with my contractor making sure everything was correct.  The final person my husband spoke with said it was scheduled for next Tuesday, and she guaranteed it would be done that day if not before.  She also told him, make sure the main breaker is off in the house, and that no one had to be there when they hooked it up.  How does that make any sense?  Shouldn't they make sure it works before they just "hook it up" and leave.  I have a lot of frustration towards this company.

The bank is also just as difficult as the electric company.  I have sent them so much paperwork! I know that getting a loan takes a lot of work, but this is getting ridiculous.  The loan officer apologized to me today for all the requests, I am not exactly sure how that helps me, because now I still need to get more paperwork to send to them. Most of which I have no clue what they even need (or why the need it).


A little good news mixed in with all the not so great news, they framed the driveway yesterday and poured it this morning.  We can walk on it - but can't drive on it for two weeks!

Poured! 

Still No Power makes for a Hot weekend

We thought we would have power by now, and that this weekend we could accomplish a lot of things! Well still no power for us!  Some city employees were out to the property to mark lines for the electric company, and the work order they received said July 23rd is the start date.  Crossing my fingers that we may have power by Tuesday evening! (trying not to get my hopes up- we have been waiting for the electrical company a long time).

The heating/cooling issue is still just that an issue.  We have quotes, quotes, and quotes, each one worse than the one before.  We have all the parts necessary to hook up the furnace and the air conditioner, yet it is hard to find someone that will hook it all up for under a fortune.  Hopefully we will find someone this week, and get everything hooked up!

On Friday my husband, daughter, and father in law, moved a bunch of boxes to our house. Saturday and Sunday we sorted the boxes and put away kitchen stuff, hung some clothes in the closets, and made a large mess of "stuff" in the rest of the house!

We completed the foyer area, grouted and sealed the tile, painted the closet, and put all the baseboard, and installed the transition bar to the laminate.  The foyer looks great! I love it!

We also completed some of the small projects we had left, hung our towel bars, toilet paper holders, shower rod, some valances, installed the vent pipe for the dryer, and put new stools together.  Overall things are progressing nicely, I am still on edge about getting everything completed, but at least now our stuff is mostly where it belongs.

This morning I woke up to pouring rain, not what I wanted this week, my contractor needs to complete the porch, pour the driveway, side the garage, and rain is not helping.