The plumbers worked Monday and Tuesday. This was completely uneventful. Our whirlpool works now, and the master bath toilet is working again. Also they installed the gas line and the thermostat. The power to the furnace had already been hooked up, which meant that we now have heat. :) Too bad it's 80 degrees out and what we actually need (in October!) is air conditioning. It was wired, but kept popping the breaker due to a short in the outside wiring. It should be fixed tomorrow.
After all this time, all the outlets in the house finally now work. The kitchen outlets were all correctly rewired and tested working, which just left the homework desk outlet and the master bath. Paul fixed both of them tonight. A hot wire had fallen out of a wire nut in the homework desk outlet, which was easily repaired; and he replaced the GFI in the master bath with a new one. That worked well.
So that just leaves the doorbell and smoke detectors, which have to be connected in the panel, and the light above the basement stairs. Bad news is that we have an extra hole in the basement stair wall. :-( The first hole for the box was cut in a stud space that was heavily blocked and there was no way to fish a wire down through. Once we pulled up the pictures of the pre-drywalled house and saw this, we decided to make a new hole on the other side of the stud where the space was wide open. Fishing a wire through here took just a minute, and that's where we stand right now. It will be hooked up in the panel soon too. When these tasks are done the house itself will be complete and ready for inspection.
But we can't call in the inspector yet because of that window well. We hired Finishing Touches Landscaping to build a block well for basement egress. This will be pricey ($4300) but what are you going to do. It has to be done. They'll start next week and once that and final grading are done we will call in the inspector. Actually, maybe we'll do that after the A/C is done and get the HVAC inspected right away so that's out of the way.
Tasks remaining for us are to install the base molding in the kitchen, punch down all the phone/network/CATV wiring, put up the fence, and move our stuff out of the condo. This latter we have been working on the past few days with moderate success. The garage is a disastrous junky mess full of crap brought over from the storage unit and the condo. We have to move these things into the basement before anything else can come in.
In other news, we filed our fourth and final draw, and our living room and family room furniture will be delivered tomorrow.
That's it. See you next time.
