Driveway has been poured

Friday the concrete crew poured the driveway, front walk and stairs. We are super happy with the way the driveway turned out. We pulled the plug and made the driveway as wide as we could. This should make the 3rd stall much more accessible. The sidewalk was left out to keep people off our driveway. It will be poured closer to our closing date. Once again Beran Concrete and Lafarge Ready Mix did a great job on the concrete work for our house.

Front steps with sidewalk.
Driveway.

Been awhile

Since my last post we have been on vacation so we haven't been able to post anything on the house. When we left the hardwood installers had just started. We took a picture of them laying down the first few boards. When we came back the hardwood was all down and it looked good. They also delivered all the cabinets for the home. We thought the trim carpenters were going to start on Monday but as of yesterday they hadn't even moved their tools in. Sometime this week the doors, trim and wood to build onsite items were delivered. We met with our superintendent and concrete sub to discuss driveway and front stair details. They planned on pouring next week but I got them to move the pour up to today. Thanks to Mike with Lafarge he was able to add 4 trucks for us today. Lisa is thankful for having a husband like me since our builder tried to charge us $1,805 for our larger driveway. I got them to adjust it down to $590. We both wonder how many times and how much do people who build get taken advantage of if they don't have the back ground or knowledge of what true construction costs are.

First few boards down.
Hardwood floors installed.
Weston checking out the cabinets.
Cabinets.
Misc wood.
Trim.
Driveway supplies.

Brick

The masons are done for now. They still need to install brick for the window well and front porch. At this time the front porch isn't even there. The concrete sub will pour the driveway, sidewalk,patio and front porch all at one time. That might happen soon if we get some nice dry weather for a few days. Right now the ground is still wet and the forecast shows more cold and wet weather coming. The electricians started the trim stage by installing the recessed can lights, outlets and switches. On Friday the hardwood was delivered and set inside the house so that it can acclimate.

Just showing off the brick on the front of the house. The guys did a great job.
Laundry room.
Recessed cans installed.
Random picture of some light switches.

Drywall Complete

The drywall is finally complete. They did a final sand this morning and sprayed the ceiling just before lunch time. We are also met with our superintendent today to go over all the final trim details. From this point forward it will be super exciting to see all the small stuff come together. We might have some hardwood floors by the end of next week. Since it is the holiday season it puts some trades off until after Christmas.

Garage is complete and ready for paint.
Just a weird shot of the ceiling texture.
Another living room picture to show the finished drywall.

We've got gas

They finally installed the gas meter on Thursday. It's amazing how these gas companies work. They have two separate crews to install one gas line to a house. Now that we have heat the mudders came back and started finishing up the drywall. Masons worked for a few hours since it finally was above freezing.

Gas meter installed.
The little bit of brick work that got done.
Lisa didn't realize the mud was still wet.
Had them move the attic access lid over to make room for the shop lights that will be in the garage.

1/2 way there

The gas company came out and ran the line to the house but never installed the meter. The masons haven't worked on the house since it has been to cold. We hope to have the meter on this morning so we can get some heat on in the house.

Corner Bead

Friday they patched in the last few pieces of drywall and installed some of the corner bead. As of tonight we still don't have any gas running to the house. Hard to believe that it takes this long to get a meter installed. The superintendent told us he ordered the meter when he pulled the permit to start building our house. Lisa and I are going to try and finish up a few more selections this week. Wish I could post more pictures or at least more interesting ones but this is all I got for today.

Kitchen with some corner bead up. The hutch area got re-framed to have a level ceiling line. Still needs some mud but looks a ton better.
Just showing off the corner bead.

Nothing

Nothing new to report today. Lisa said the drywall guy came over and rehung some of the drywall where they had some framing fixes. Masons didn't show up and I am not sure what that is all about. Rain is in the forecast for tonight and through the weekend. No gas yet so still at a stand still on moving forward inside the home. We will have to wait and see if anyone shows up tomorrow to work on the home.