Progress, Progress, Progress

They were finally able to fix the windows and it must have been approved by the county because the drywall is now re-installed in both bedrooms. Now we're just waiting for them to redo the siding and put the shutters up.

Before

After

The rest of the house is coming along nicely. All the sinks have been installed minus the facets, the kitchen cabinets have been installed, the stair rails have been installed and painted, plus a few other minor things. Its finally starting to look like a home.

As you can see below we now have a garage door and our front porch now has rails. The rails were welcomed and a pleasant surprise for us to see because we were told we wouldn't get them since our front porch wasn't 36 inches off the ground. I guess something changed, but you won't see us complaining about it. Now we wont be the only house on the block without them.

Our Window Is A Real Pane

The good.......We seem to be making some progress, as the entire house finally has insulation and drywall. However, all the material that used to be laying in the garage somehow disappeared. We're sure they just relocated everything in the short term but it seems odd for it all to vanish the way it did. The front porch finally has concrete and it's, surprisingly, bigger than I imagined it would be.

Now the bad.....As you can see in the picture below (old pic) we are missing shutters for one window on the top floor. That's because the spacing was off between the three windows on the right side of the house and they couldn't fit in the shutters. Apparently there is a design flaw with this particular elevation of the Milan model and, since we're the first to build, they caught it while building ours. They must now take down the drywall, re-do the framing upstairs, and widen out the windows which should make all windows even across the entire house. We were assured this work would not increase our timeline to close, which is now set for Oct. 19th.

Our advice to anyone who decides to build is to visit your house frequently and don't be afraid to call your PM if you have questions. We've learned that nobody will contact us when issues arise and we want to make sure things get done to our satisfaction.

She's a Brick....House

Its been about a week and a half since our last post and nothing has changed much. We are currently awaiting several inspections to occur before they can start hanging drywall. In the meantime, we now have most of our siding and the front porch is partially complete. Apparently, the brick we chose for the house is popular and is currently on back order, so that also delays things. There has been a window in the front of the house that was been missing for about a month, which means siding cant be added to that area until its installed.Notice our awesome shutters! There are other houses nearby that began the building process after us and it seems like they're catching us in terms of progress. However, our PM has assured us that we are still on track and will be complete on time. They also went through and fixed a few things that we pointed out during the pre-drywall walk through, mainly the leveling of the floor in a few locations. Also a good chunk of material (ie. doors, sinks, etc) is sitting in the garage and we can't wait for them to be installed. For now, all we can do is patiently wait....