There go the holidays

So its December 28th and we're still not back in the house. The interior staircase railings showed up completely different than we had originally discussed, so they are being re-done and won't be finished until late this week, which means that we won't be able to schedule the final inspection until early next week. Providing everything gets done on time. I'm not holding my breath.

Appliances went in last week, though, so that's some progress, and finish plumbing and electrical is happening. Finish HVAC should be happening today and tomorrow. I installed the concrete sink and steel vanity that I built for the master bathroom last wee as well - that's the picture above. Sarah and her mom have been working on getting the floor tile all sealed. The old bedrooms and bath are all done and the rest should be finished by the end of this weekend.

We're now shooting for a move-in date towards the end of next week. There will still be several things that need to be done after that, most notably the spiral staircase to the back balcony and the concrete around it, but that will all be done after the final.

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(Not) Home for the Holidays

So we won't be back in the house by Christmas. Our counters aren't going in until this Friday, and all the finish work (plumbing, electrical, HVAC) has to wait until the counters are in, so we won't be done until the week after Christmas at the earliest.

Things are progressing, however. The roof is mostly on - the rest will be completed after the solar electric panels are installed in early January. The floor tile is all installed and, thanks to a lot of hard work by Sarah and her mom, the grouting is all done as well. The shower tile is all done except for the grout, which will be completed tomorrow. The grate over the basement window well is in, which means we won't have to fish our neighbor out of there any more after his nightly "constitutional".

I'll post more pictures on Friday when the countertops go in.

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Getting Close

We're getting close to finishing now. The floor tile is going in - the first floor is done and they started the second floor today.

We decided to do the grout ourselves. Our tile has a pretty serious knocked-down edge, and we didn't want the entire area to be filled with grout, so we are doing it ourselves rather than paying extra to have the tile guys to it to our specifications.

They also painted the exterior doors today - though only the outside of the front door is supposed to be blue. Oops. We'll get that fixed.

We're still on track for a completion date of the 15th, despite the amount of work that still has to be completed.

The cabinets are getting put in on Thursday and Friday, and the countertops will get templated on Monday. We're doing CaesarStone, and apparently it will take at least a week to fabricate the counters once the templates are made. If it goes over that, we'll end up blowing our completion date of the 15th.

Even if we go over, though, hopefully we'll still be done before Christmas.

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