Progress Report
Tile guy should be finished up by the end of the week. Looks good. In the future we need to plan better for the height of the heated floor, though. Should be able to ramp up carpet otherwise we'll need to get a custom thresehold made up.
The staircase and fireplace was started today. We beefed up the bottom newell post a little, but otherwise looks good. Besides the beams and base these are two of final trim items.
The painters should be able to start inside later this week. They finished the barn area. We should have included in the original bid painting the gutters, flashing, and inside of the window wells, so we'll need to add this on.
They poured caissons for the front steps, but we're waiting on the backhoe to dig out the trenches for the forms (their was some confusion on this-- Doug didn't think they would be 3' under ground). I also need the backhoe to dig up a leaky pipe coming from our well (must have frozen and broke).
Doug thinks we'll be done early April. Pete and Todd say 3 months (end of May). Hopefully Doug is right.
Counter tops were installed in the kitchen yesterday. They look great, except that they had to shim them up to be level, which created a gap at the cabinet base. Apparently the cabinet bases weren't totally level. Normally you would just shim them up, but with the furniture feet on them this would look funny, so the best course of action is to add a small piece of trim at the top of the base cabinets.
I'm working on getting gate and fence estimates. We'll also need railings around the window wells, not just grates, because the windows extend up above the top of the well. This will look nice, but be more expensive.
In the future I would have both the framers and trim carpenters review the plans before they are finalized and also have the trim carpenters walk the house at the end of framing. There are numerous items that I think the trim carpenters would notice early on that could be changed in the framing (nothing big, just details where trim gets cut off, door headers crowded, etc.-- all typical in any home.)
The staircase and fireplace was started today. We beefed up the bottom newell post a little, but otherwise looks good. Besides the beams and base these are two of final trim items.
The painters should be able to start inside later this week. They finished the barn area. We should have included in the original bid painting the gutters, flashing, and inside of the window wells, so we'll need to add this on.
They poured caissons for the front steps, but we're waiting on the backhoe to dig out the trenches for the forms (their was some confusion on this-- Doug didn't think they would be 3' under ground). I also need the backhoe to dig up a leaky pipe coming from our well (must have frozen and broke).
Doug thinks we'll be done early April. Pete and Todd say 3 months (end of May). Hopefully Doug is right.
Counter tops were installed in the kitchen yesterday. They look great, except that they had to shim them up to be level, which created a gap at the cabinet base. Apparently the cabinet bases weren't totally level. Normally you would just shim them up, but with the furniture feet on them this would look funny, so the best course of action is to add a small piece of trim at the top of the base cabinets.
I'm working on getting gate and fence estimates. We'll also need railings around the window wells, not just grates, because the windows extend up above the top of the well. This will look nice, but be more expensive.
In the future I would have both the framers and trim carpenters review the plans before they are finalized and also have the trim carpenters walk the house at the end of framing. There are numerous items that I think the trim carpenters would notice early on that could be changed in the framing (nothing big, just details where trim gets cut off, door headers crowded, etc.-- all typical in any home.)
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