Mudding & Taping

They've been at the house all week just taping and mudding and sanding and taping and mudding...

I met with Wayne on Thursday afternoon to show him where the wood floor would go so that they could measure and give us a quote. We'll be getting a quote for type 2 Hickory in 3, 4, and 5 inch planks. We would like to do a mix, so we'll see what that ends up looking like price wise.

They also got the columns framed for the front porch and back deck so that the stone can be completed on Saturday. I hope they take all their scaffolding and stuff with them too. I'd like to get the fence back up so the horses can graze in the pasture.

I think they're also getting ready to complete the water line and Qwest needs to dig up the front again to lay cable because seems as though they forgot as the trench was open when they did Comcast and electric. Bummer.

City Utilities

The city trenched the electric, cable and phone across the front of the property today. Not sure how far they got down the east side.

Progress

I'll go out to the house quickly before I go get the kids, but what I know so far is that they are finishing the gas line and starting to frame the basement.

Yesterday they accidentally cut the power lines to the barn from the main house. Oops, I guess they are going to fix it today. Wayne mentioned that it was probably cheaper to find them the way they did than to do a utility locate.

We had a meeting with our designer yesterday and she walked through stone, stucco, roof, window and exterior paint and stain decisions. We narrowed the roof down to two selections, stone down to three, stucco down to five and windows down to one (that one was easy with only 3 choices). We are working on getting samples of all of the options so that we can see them together. We'll meet with her again once we get all those collected.

We also had her look at the 2 stain options for the kitchen and we went with the second option so I had to put a change order in already to the kitchen designer. Not a big deal, but I'm glad we came to that decision.

House on the Market Today

Today our Bluestem house went on the market.

No updates for the new house today. The framers will start framing tomorrow and the utilities will start boring the gas line. Not sure when the electric, water, cable, phone, etc. are going to trench - they need to all go in the same trench, so hopefully they'll get that coordinated. I have a lot of faith in Wayne.