Mike and Karen Online

A lot has happened since the last update.  The roof is done and shingled, the walls are in place and getting drywall.

The first challenge we had to deal with was the tub in the master bath.  It turns out that you can’t fit a six foot tub in a six foot space.  You need some room around the edges of the tub.  We spend some extra money by going through the plumbing supply company that works with the plumber instead of getting everything cheaper through online retailers because we new we needed help putting the order together.  The person that put the order together didn’t check anything with the floor plan, she just ordered it and it was too big.  Wes, our job super, got with the framer and they worked move some walls just enough to make the tub fit but it’s going to be tight.

After the plumbing was in place we walked through the house with the electrician to place each and every outlet and light.  It took us about three hours, way longer than I thought it would.  Damn, that’s a big house.  He had some really good suggestions for improving some things.  The light in the stairwell (it goes up one way to a landing and then back the other way to get upstairs) was just a can light and he suggested we wire it for a hanging light.  I think that will look much better.

We pre-plumbed the house for a central vacuum, it was $550 to that and once we sell my house we can get the rest of the deal for another $500.  Karen was already talking about buying a replacement vacuum for my Dyson that she doesn’t like and getting another one for upstairs so she didn’t have to drag a vacuum up the stairs.  This system will end up costing a little more than two new vacuums in the short run, but since replacement motors for it cost less than $50, it will pay off in the long run.

We are thinking we will close sometime in January and that is freaking me out a little since we are nowhere near being ready to put the current house up for sale.  Tons of work to do in the master bath and the yard.  Not to mention we have way too much crap that needs carting to the curb.

I’ll try to get some new pictures up this weekend.

As soon as they had all the weight bearing walls in they started on the roof.  I don’t blame them, it will be a lot easier to work in there when there is a little bit of shade.

They are finished with the concrete block, they poured the walls last Friday.  Monday they will start putting up the framing.

Forms are up, thanks for the dumpster placement guys.  <sigh>

And the slab pored.  At least they moved the dumpster so you can see more now.  Lots of rain and moisture to slow the curing of the slab this weekend, which is good.

The slab looks so small!  I don’t see how they can fit our house on it.  Karen want’s to go out tomorrow with a tape measure.

I want to thank the construction guys for the nice placement of the porta-potty.  They managed to just get it in the frame I was going to use for all the progress pictures.  May have to shift to the right a bit ….