Sorry we haven’t posted in quite some time. Unfortunately, things have been moving very slowly, and the things that have been done haven’t been very interesting or photogenic.
In the last couple of months, all of the rough in plumbing has been completed for both water and natural gas. The goal had been to get everything that causes a roof penetration completed so that the new roof could be installed. As such, the plumbing rough-in was completed, including roof vents. The two furnaces were installed along with all the HVAC duct work, as well as venting for hot water heater, dryer, bathroom vent fans, and kitchen vent fan.
Exciting photo of living room HVAC ducts and dryer vent!
Home Depot finally found the replacement patio door panel that had been delivered to the store more than a month ago. That’s been delivered to the house now and should be installed any day now.
Electrical rough-in has also started with electrical boxes installed throughout the house and wiring run to maybe 40% of those so far. Most of the exterior boxes still need to be installed as well as all ceiling electrical (fans and ceiling lights). We’ve marked specific locations for all the bathroom vanity outlets and wall sconces for the electrician. Travis had developed a detailed electrical plan with detail down down to what items are on which circuit. It also includes specialty wiring for security cameras, alarms, audio/visual, patio heaters, etc. As such, we’ve been over there a number of times going through that with the electricians. We found ourselves needing to mark various things and Travis ultimately bought a fishing vest to carry all the stuff he needed while over there (tape measure, various writing instruments, notepad, laser pointer, flashlight, etc.). He may like his vest just a little too much!
Travis consulting with Ishmael, one of the electricians
We ordered vanities for the powder room and guest bathroom from a shop on Etsy. Those arrived a while back and we like them so much we may order the vanities for the primary bath from the same people.
Guest bath vanity currently sitting in builders warehouse
Powder Room Vanity
Over the past couple of months, we’ve also finalized a number of things:
All ceiling and decorative lighting
Countertops throughout the house
Tile selections (may still need to do a bit of work on bar backsplash)
Roof Shingles
Interior/Exterior Door Hardware
The new roof was installed on Wednesday and looks really good. Unfortunately, on Thursday, the Porta-Potty vacuum truck backed into the eave over the garage door and broke a piece of fascia board and bent up the day-old drip-edge.
New Roof
A day later after getting “T-Boned” by the Porta Potty truck.