It's August, 2016- How is your build progressing?
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poolroomcomesfirst
6 years agoStanley Ridge
6 years agoAlmost ready for the beam across the front wall of glass, then on to roof trusses this week. Architect is making a site visit this week.
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Comments (68)We are in the final 60 days and things feel like they've really slowed down. In August the walls were all primed (color tinted primer), the hardwood went down, some of our tile work was completed, we have railings on our stairs, beadboard went up in the mudroom. Electrical was completed as well as our heating/cooling stuff, fireplace was installed. The last week of the month is focused on built-ins and more tile work happening inside and siding, trim board and gable vents outside. September is going to be a big month with lots of fun stuff like built-ins and lighting and plumbing fixtures. I can't wait to get to the next stage and start seeing our selections come to life. stone up on exterior siding starting to go up! laundry room primed first floor primed and ready for hardwoods (which have since gone down) our master bath ready for plumbing installations and tile...See MoreIt's January 2016- How is your build progressing?
Comments (103)Daisy - thanks! sure, siding is just a 5" vinyl in whatever plain white color they offered. We did do a larger window wrap, I think 3" and standard was 2". This helped give a little detail since everything is white on white. I'll look at the box next time to see brand if you want. We debated Hardie but it was significant extra cost and maintenance. In our area almost no one does it so it seemed overkill. I know vinyl is not really seen as a nice choice around GW, but I actually love how it turned out and am glad we spent that money elsewhere. island is 7'1" x 3' with a 14" overhang for seating. 15" is recommended but we are a short family, and I was trying to get more space for my walkway. island drawers - the top drawers have pegboard inserts and I intended to use them to store plates and my glass Rubbermaid storage. However, I think they will be too deep for this and am thinking of using them for mixing bowls, etc now. Probably one will be used as a snack drawer with cereal and kids snacks right by fridge. The middle is double trash bin pullout which we will use one for trash one for plastic recycling. I also have another double trash pullout right under my drop zone for paper recycling. This is the only thing I'm thinking I should have changed - done those double drawers stacks as a three drawer stack instead. Hard to know for sure until we move in, our stuff has been packed up for over a year!!...See MoreIt's May, 2016. How is your build progressing?
Comments (141)Saturday, May 28th! The guest bedroom has been painted! (First coat only). I love it, and it works well with the ceiling paint I chose! This photo is the most color-accurate of the lot. Wall color: Sherwin Williams Whole Wheat. Ceiling: Sherwin Williams Canvas Tan, a warm white to be used throughout the house. View is out through the hallway (also Canvas Tan) into the master. And here you see the wall color - a little less accurately -- with the future floorboard sample: In other news, I brought up the lights for the kitchen (a set over the prep area, and another set over the main sink). I'll have them hang down from the cathedral ceiling to a level of 7.5 feet above floor. I still need to pick out ceiling fans with lights. Arrgghh, decisions!! Going through the brochure, most are pretty pug-ugly, and I also wonder how I'll be changing bulbs from the ground. Most are encased in glass enclosures, so the ole stick the elongaged lightbulb changer up there isn't going to help. I planted the garden. Well, I put in my cannas tubers and calla lily bulbs, behind the garage next to the dining area. The GC has to finish grading the area, but he's got space to work with without disturbing the plants. I also left plenty of room -- even more than he said he needed -- so he can finish off the outside of the house. The bamboo (and other) stakes are marking off parameters. I amended the soil with organic topsoil and compost - did you know a lot of purchased topsoil comes from disturbed regions of the country, disturbed by events such as hurricanes, which indiscriminately mix up who knows what? As the very front of the plot will eventually be given to cooking herbs, I care about this! Here, the topsoil/compost mixture has been added. Here, the plants have been placed, and more defining stakes have been added. And the ground watered -- I have running water, if only from a hose! The outer edges define this eventual relatively-flat garden space. Those two little stakes are the line for the calla lilies, and the cannas tubers are behind. I went home that evening, and missed out on some friends who'd driven up from New York to surprise me -- I guess that surprised them! Anyhow, Sunday: I started staining some units for my closets. After checking out the closet planner on Easy Closets and getting some great ideas, I decided I could save a ton of money by doing my own useful shelving. Two tall narrow shelves I'd just purchased, and a pre-existing dresser my father left with me back about twelve years ago got called into service, and stained. Unfortunately, even outside, the oil based stain I used on the tall shelves got to me -- hot day, the air not moving -- so I went back and bought a water based one for the dresser. I'll be putting them in different closets, so the color change doesn't matter. There are two of these, and they will go to the edges of a four-foot deep closet. The dresser drawers -- the body was hard to move so I stained that inside my garage -- will go into a similar closet. Unfortunately, before I took the drawers inside yesterday evening, a rude bird had decided to drop a little doot on one of the drawers. I'll see how I can fix that today, when it stops raining....See MoreIt's December, 2016. How is your build progressing?
Comments (183)cp I'll see you and raise you and with only one element of our build - there have been hiccups (that's my euphemism for sh*t hitting the fan) at just about every turn. Our flooring was delivered a couple of weeks ago , 4" white oak, select, 4' - 10' lengths. Only it wasn't. They got the 4" white oak part ok and it was probably select but there wasn't a board we could see in any bundle over 6' and a ton of shorties, 1', 2', 3' - some is to be expected and is needed for end runs and closets but not a large percentage. Our installer did the ordering and was there to receive it but didn't say anything until it was all off loaded and spread through the house. Once DH saw it he told him to take it back and that's when the song and dance started - No one has longer lengths, I called all the mills around here, it's going to be beautiful once it's down and finished blah blah blah. No, take it back, not what we ordered and we're not paying premium for long lengths and then taking this. More song and dance - but the crew has already left, I'll have to see when they can come back, they'll charge me a restocking fee, I'm just a small business owner blah blah blah. After they picked it up the installer asks ME to pay the restocking fee! I said no, I'd CONSIDER splitting it with him after we get the right flooring, installed and finished. Meantime, DH called his old flooring supplier in Chicago, they sent us pics of the bundles showing the lengths, we placed the order and it would get freighted to us in 3 - 4 days which sets us back for the kitchen install but should be ok. I ask installer if his schedule will be clear for install at that time and he says he'd rather not do it now. OK, jerk, good bye. Then I get an email from him with a copy of the bill for restocking fee saying he'd appreciate me paying any portion of it!!! Seriously? Then my portion is 0.0% And that's only part of the story - it just keeps going and going.... Welcome to the world of building. Have I mentioned I'm never doing this again? The house is going to be fabulous but it is coming at such a huge cost to my DH - if I'd known then what I know now........See MorePensacola PI
6 years agoknightzerox90
6 years ago
motherof3sons
6 years ago
whaas_5a
6 years ago
Russ Barnard
6 years agoWell, I have not read this thread in some time.
We listened to CP's comments about the posts and decided the entire house was "off balance". We met with the builder last week and are expecting to have the entire house demolished and start over.
My wife is not keen on the idea, but CP was right, the posts were way off and we just could not live with it.
Okay, just kidding. Nothing to see, the rain has kept us from proceeding..
lol!
We did get the vanities in. Let's see.. I can post photos, I guess. The builder installs the same cabinets in the bathrooms as you get in the kitchen, just stained etc... right? Those would have been shaker doors etc....the problem was, the "standard" was whatever tile you picked for the bathroom, went onto the counters, and I am just not a fan of tile counters, so we asked to change out the vanities and we actually saved money.
So, here are the vanities we go:
For the upstairs guest bathroom :
And the master gets this one:
And the kid's bathroom gets this one:
I really like the Kid's one, wish we had found that one in a 60" one.. heh with 2 sinks.
I asked them, when they told me the master vanity had arrived, what it looked like, they replied, "Looks a lot like cardboard".. lol ;)
Rmrsfiremangw
6 years agoRuss Barnard
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cpartist
6 years agoRuss Barnard
6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
DLM2000-GW
6 years agoRuss Barnard
6 years agoscone911
6 years agoMaking tiny bits of progress here. We are flipping the house so the driveway is on the north, although that may involve some engineered fill, but OTOH we may get lucky in having less excavation overall. Putting this house in amongst the existing rocks has been a real head scratcher. Just to give an idea, here is a house on the market near our land:
Russ Barnard
6 years agoscone911
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6 years agoLes Raff
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Kelsey Janak
6 years ago
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6 years ago
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6 years agoMy stove was installed today! This thing is a beast - took 4 men to get it in ... Worth it!
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6 years agogreenwoodframed
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6 years ago rdy2retire
6 years agoscone911
6 years agoBuildinginTN
6 years agoJennifer
6 years agoAm E
6 years agoGreenwood, count me as another in the love category for that backsplash. I think its great.
I have an update:) 3 weeks after we passed inspections, the drywall is hung. It only took them two days this week (those guys were fast!), it looks like they'll start finishing next week.
Drywall marks about 7 months since we started construction. This isn't so much a complaint, as just to give context to the varying time is takes to build a house. While I am little jealous of the builds on here that are moving much more quickly than ours, we're also in a nice position where we don't really have time constraints. It'll be nice when its done:)
greenwoodframed
6 years agoThanks, everyone. Now that the rest of it is in and paint is done I think he's coming around. No grout yet.
My living room at the moment...
rmverb
6 years agocpartist
6 years agoBuildinginTN
6 years agoAm_e I have ceiling envy! That is going to look amazing.
rmverb - feels like time we saw another pic from you! I like seeing the in progress.
wjkramer - congrats you guys are getting super close. That deck looks ready for a hot cup of coffee.
time11130 - I'd say you're well on your way.
cpartist - hoping for good news from you soon!
As for us, tile is going in while drywall is being finished. Sometimes the order of things make no sense to me, but I'm happy with the tile. We were supposed to have a bench and evidently someone forgot. In scheme of things, I think I will let this go and buy a teak one instead. So glad we expanded the shower in lieu of a tub. Even the 4x6 doesn't seem huge now.
Our visiting cat seems to have left the building.
mushcreek
6 years agowhaas_5a
6 years agocpartist
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoDLM2000-GW
6 years agoStanley Ridge
6 years agoWe had a great week with a meeting from our architect. We're on site for the crane lifting header beam into place and spent a lot of time discussing finite construction details and finish materials. So much fun
Russ Barnard
6 years agoUser
6 years ago
Casa Di Villani
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoThere is some great progress being made by so many of you this month, thanks for sharing! @cpartist don't give up! It's taken us two years to get to where we are from when we first bought our land. City and environmental planning seemed like it would never end, then one day we actually got to break ground.
Our home exterior is almost done, the final masonry for the entrance is going up today then we are ready for soffits and fascia.
We finally found a good carpenter who fixed the old ones mistakes and passed our framing inspection with flying colours. Although it took ripping down and rebuilding some interior walls, which felt like moving backwards, we are now confident it's done right.
HVAC is complete and we just got started on plumbing and electrical. The process has been a bit slower than we originally anticipated because hubby has went from general contracting the job to doing a lot of it himself. That's what happens when you are a perfectionist architect who wants to oversee your design/want to keep the borrowing to a minimum. We are looking forward to making more progress on the interior and hope we can move in by Christmas with our new baby. It has been good keeping track of progress on our blog and seeing how far we have come when things feel like things aren't progressing as fast as we want www.casadivillani.blogspot.com
April Z
6 years ago
Hello everyone! I'm new to the thread. We started building our home in fall 2015. We're on the homeward stretch and I'm starting to see how everything we picked is coming together! I posted just a few pics to start out. The 1st pic is obviously the front door. We picked Real Red by Sherwin Williams. The 2nd pic is our back porch, the 3rd pic is our powder bath and the 4th pic is our favorite room in the house...the sunroom. Enjoy!
cpartist
6 years ago
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