I haven't posted the Day XXX of the build for a long time because it's been extremely depressing to see the days tick by and so little get accomplished. Nobody seems inclined to finish up the last little bits, but we have decided that nobody is getting any more money until it all gets finished. Of course, we are waiting for the holdback to be released from the lawyer, so we don't have much choice in the matter anyway.
Today is Day 438 our house build!! Yes, it is incredible. What is even more incredible is that it's still not done!
Still to do:
- remediation of HRV controls by HVAC people. They installed 2-conductor wire to the controls instead of the required 3-wire, and now they have to fix the problem. As I said to the guy today, "It's your company's problem, not my problem."
- remediation of the heaving floors. They were installed too tight, and the humidity has caused them to heave. Reducing the humidity should help, but the humidity is within the acceptable range.
- parging - the material used to parge seems to wash away. Not nice at all.
- caulking around windows and doors - not complete and some has to be redone in spots.
- repair of a few broken shingles and loose soffits.
- putting backer rod and mortar in the air space behind the stone, where it adjoins the soffits
- covering up the styrofoam on the brick ledge - the stone mason should probably have put some mortar on this first to fix the problem
From a deferring costs perspective, I wanted to defer getting an air conditioner, but we had to because the house gets so warm with all the large windows -- that was installed today. I also wanted to defer getting eavestroughs, but we are going to have to get them to control the runoff water.
The biggest things still to be done are:
- post light - (not really big, but not done) waiting for light fixture - we ordered it a month ago
- fireplace - waiting for stone
- front steps - waiting....
- rough landscaping - waiting...
This past weekend I installed the rest of the exterior light fixtures and plugs, painted the exterior doors (I took off and reinstalled all the door hardware in order to do a good job), fixed the laundry room vac pan, fixed a 3-way switch screw-up, and corrected all the flipped and mixed up switches. I was busy with things from 8am until 10:30pm on Sunday. Freda was doing other things outside with the gardening etc. Whew!
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