Plumbing rough in done...Electrical!

I got my hot/cold hose bib in the garage.

Other hose bibs around the house.

Laundry room vents and plumbing roughed in.

Electrical started.

We met with our cabinet guy last week and our electrician earlier this week. Once the cabinetry was finalized the electrician put the cabinet plans everywhere so they know what to plan for. We did a 2 and a half hour walk through with our electrician this week and the next day he got to work. We planned switches and plugs and talked light placement and all that fun stuff. Here's to hoping we don't regret our decisions and wish we had put a plug somewhere or gotten rid of a light switch in one of the halls or something like that.

Double stackable laundry cabinets.

Electrical work getting done.

Also, the fireplace kit was delivered. Should be getting installed this week!

We meet with our flooring people again this coming week to finalize our flooring options. Exciting stuff.

Stem Walls and Windows

They poured the concrete into the forms early last week and took them off within a day. They then came back and cleaned up the job site and let the concrete cure for the rest of the week. I love the view here facing that sunset! While we were waiting for the concrete to cure we met with our builder and the distributor that they use for their windows and exterior doors. They had bid out the windows based on the plans and we were meeting to go over everything and clarify questions. Before the meeting I reviewed the plans and compared it to the bid and found that they had missed one of windows in a guest bathroom and the bid had mentioned that two windows shown on the elevation plans were not on the actual floor plans and so we had to be pretty thorough. They had the windows drawn in as casement windows but in my mind I had always imagined single hung windows. I didn't know what these were called but I visited the Anderson Windows website and as I looked around I found o...

Backfilling

Not a ton to report this week. They are working on backfilling. They have to backfill the garage with compactable soil and will then pour the slab in the garage. They also have to fill the areas where we will have our front porch and back patio with the compactable soil but the rest of the stuff can be backfilled with regular soil. Here are some pictures of the progress. You can't really tell from this picture above, but there is quite a slope down from the house into the back yard and I'm going to have to figure out how to landscape that... The weather was spring-y and crappy this last week so I thought the blue sky was a nice one to end on. The weather is supposed to change from 50's and rainy to the 70's and sunny come April so we are looking forward to that! This last picture is the most recent one from earlier today.

We're Moving Dirt!

We have made some progress! After two years of planning and getting ready today was the day! We signed bank documents a few days ago and our builder told us late this week or early next week they would start digging. Every day this week I drove by the property to see what was going on and I was always disappointed to see nothing. No tractor, no hole in the dirt. Nothing. Yesterday morning, Friday, I drove by and there was a tractor but nobody in it and I figured they were just getting ready for Monday. I drove by last night just to check and nothing had changed. Today, I was out running errands and I was in the area and thought, "What the heck, why not just drive by and see what's going on? Maybe they've done something." though I doubted they would come on a Saturday. It was about 2 PM and I drove by and saw this: I came home and shared the news with the family. We ran over later in the day and it was WINDY and cold. We made sure the kids knew not to climb ...

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