November 10th
Failed inspection again…A few items remained so it didn’t pass inspection yesterday. And of course the inspector came after 3:30, which is the cutoff to reschedule an inspection, and today was a government holiday. So now we can’t get it reinspected until Tuesday. Doug’s going to start the insulation (we’re now about two weeks behind on that) Monday anyway since it is out of the way of the remaining inspection items. They did spray foam insulation on the west wall this week. That should make it much tighter and quieter since we get high winds from the west. This was about a $2800 upgrade.
The stucco crew finally started the first skim coat. It looks about 3-4 guys working. They have come and gone a lot over about 10 days, but I would say it took about 3 solid days to put up all the backing paper and wire. They did about 1/3 of the house with a 1st coat today so this could take some time. It will have two coats and then a final color coat.
They should finally start the garage remodel next week. What a delay that has been over permits, plans, etc.
We’re currently running $21,000 over budget. About $4-$5k were conscious things like move some framing upstairs for the bed/bath, adding a window, and adding a larger void to protect against expansive soils. The rest seems to be mostly framing/framing materials. Some of which is related to reframing the office to make it a foot higher ($2000) and extra TGIs and steel because the plans scaled wrong on the take-offs ($2800). These are the kind of items that frustrate me. Doug has done a good job and everyone is very honest, but the lack of precision (think handwritten estimates, no date, no detail) and lack of scheduling precision is maddening for a guy that checks his email on his TREO every 5 minutes.
The stucco crew finally started the first skim coat. It looks about 3-4 guys working. They have come and gone a lot over about 10 days, but I would say it took about 3 solid days to put up all the backing paper and wire. They did about 1/3 of the house with a 1st coat today so this could take some time. It will have two coats and then a final color coat.
They should finally start the garage remodel next week. What a delay that has been over permits, plans, etc.
We’re currently running $21,000 over budget. About $4-$5k were conscious things like move some framing upstairs for the bed/bath, adding a window, and adding a larger void to protect against expansive soils. The rest seems to be mostly framing/framing materials. Some of which is related to reframing the office to make it a foot higher ($2000) and extra TGIs and steel because the plans scaled wrong on the take-offs ($2800). These are the kind of items that frustrate me. Doug has done a good job and everyone is very honest, but the lack of precision (think handwritten estimates, no date, no detail) and lack of scheduling precision is maddening for a guy that checks his email on his TREO every 5 minutes.