We're not quite there yet. Almost.
Due to his late bedtime Paul took the day off of work and slept in until ten. When he got up he finished off yesterday's inspection to-do list. Took only a few minutes to install the screws, and slightly longer to insulate around the window and pipes with Great Stuff. Messy substance that crap is.....
Then he moved the top basement stair handrail to the opposite wall. Kathy was not pleased but it's more important to pass the inspection right now. Anyway, then he went to the surveyor's office to pick up the finish grading survey.
It was fortunate that he did that. Jeff, the regular building inspector came today (the backup, Ed, had come yesterday) and took a copy back to the city engineering department for analysis. He also did his own inspection, and approved the things Ed noted but had a couple of his own he wanted fixed. We were missing a batt of insulation in the basement ceiling, which took Paul all of thirty seconds to fix just after Jeff left, and he wanted the last tiny fill pile gone and the silt fence replaced. Darn it. Didn't want to buy and install a new one of those. Also we were missing our insulation certificate.
Nonetheless he dropped off a folder containing papers welcoming us to the community, providing community information and a few booklets of permit and code requirements for putting up sheds, swimming pools or decks.
So Jeff left. Paul called Alpine Insulation for the certificate, which he faxed over shortly thereafter, and called the excavator to get him to remove the fill pile. Darren didn't want to do it until the engineering department approved the grade so that he wouldn't have to make two trips. All right. We'll have to call the engineering department tomorrow afternoon to see if they'll approve the grading and maybe we'll even try to shovel the fill ourselves; we'll see.
There are plenty of other small to midsize tasks to be done. Paul finished installing the travertine ledge above the fireplace and took a few things out of the garage, and Kathy touched up some paint in the family room. We're still putzing with things a bit but Paul is worn down and won't be too ambitious to work on much inside the house for awhile.
