Quick Weekend Update

Just thought I would drop a quick note and picture from our work this past weekend. As you can see the front of the house is done. The only thing missing is the garage doors but we do have them in the basement we just need them installed.

Soffits, Insulation, and a Potty!

Chad and my dad are working on the soffits for the house. On this day they looked happy and not to nervous. The back of the house has not been fun for these two daredevils. I can't wait until they're done.
Here's a view of the house with some of the soffits done. The front is pretty much done now and Chad's parents have been sealing the boards for the porch. Roger has been installing the boards and they look awesome. At night, the lights look very cool from the road. They guys are putting up the trim boards around the windows, finishing the soffits and facia, and will be starting on the siding. Our color is called Woodstock with White trim. It's precolored, so no painting for us!
Roger got an almost new toilet from a job and intalled it in our house. This is the guest bath on the main floor. The port o potty was officially removed last week! The Tyvak wall in the bathroom makes it pretty classy.
My mom and I decided to spend a Friday after work insulating the house. The guys were done doing their stuff late that night and helped us finish the main floor! We passed our insulation inspection last Thursday and are ready to sheetrock. I think the outside is the priority right now.
Ava's excited that her room is nice and warm!

House updates

Chad and Ava are posing for a picture under a light bulb. This is a big deal for us, so a picture was needed!
My dad is working on putting in some of the light switches that we now use. Ava and Ellie have found out the hard way that they shouldn't play with the switches. Ouch!

I realized I hadn't put a picture of the house up for a while. It's changing every day. If you look closely, you'll see the landscaping that is going around the house. We had to do something to keep the water that falls off of the roof from eroding the dirt away from the foundation. Chad's dad has been very helpful for this! You may also notice the grass growing in the front yard! We've already had to mow.

Our dinner party

My mom, dad, and Jacquie pose for a picture in our living room at one of our first dinner parties at the new house. Chad and my dad were working hard on this Saturday so we decided to bring the dinner to them. We had a few beers and burned part of the giant brush pile down by the lake.

Girls Day

Jacquie & I took the girls to the Children's Museum. We all had a blast! The girls always enjoy painting their faces.


Ava had fun "playing" the guitar in the music video room. She's such a rock star!
Ellie is waiting for her prince while looking out at her kingdom.
Lydia is such a princess!
We were getting hungry, so we took a break at the McDonald's in the skyway. Then we went back to the museum for more fun. What a day!

Electrical & Framing inspection...

Lydia and Chad flip on the switch. We officially have real lights in the house! It's very cool.
Another picture of the panels...
If you look close, the right side of this box had THE sticker from the electrical inspector. This is a very important step in our quest for being finished by Thanksgiving. Yes, I said our goal is Thanksgiving.

Well the inspector came back out early Friday afternoon and was pleased with what he saw. He told us that everything looked great!! Next step FRAMING inspection. I have the city inspector coming out on Thursday.

This weekend Doug and I Got all the three-way switches working so now we can walk into the house at night and flip the lights on.

Now it's Saturday the 30th and the framing inspector was here and only found six things we need to fix. Chad said they are small fixes. He's hoping to have the inspector out to reinspect this coming week. Keep your fingers crossed! When this passes, we're on to siding and insulating.

Chad's car had some things he had to fix this week. We knew it needed work, but were waiting until the house was done. Well, the house is not done but the car was. He was in between the house and my parents garage where the car is taken apart all week. We are currently at the cabin relaxing on this glorious Labor Day Weekend. We'll take pictures and update this week. I'm back to work so the updates should be more frequent. Have a great weekend!

Electric Inspection Update

The inspector showed up Tuesday morning and started looking through the house and asking questions. We got dinged on a few things but we were able to fix those the same day. I'm going to try to get him back out on Friday.

A few things we got dinged on we should have known like the kitchen microwave needs its own circuit (even though we asked an electrician and he said it should be fine) and we overloaded a box or two. Other things we had to fix were:

Add a disconnect to the well power
Make sure where a wire enters a box that it's 1 1/4 inches away from the stud
Separate the dishwasher and garbage disposal so they are on two different circuits
and we had to move an outside receptacle off the kitchen circuit and put it on the outside circuit.