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 The toothy looking panel up high is so you can feed wires down the wall for a wallmount tv. See anything missing?   Appliances look great. Got our plumbing, electrical, gas, and fire department approvals. Today is the air seal test. Tomorrow final inspections. Grass & Driveway are supposed to be happening over the next three days as well, but we had a lot of rain yesterday so we'll see if it's too muddy. Builder sent me a bill today which is super-annoying since there will probably be another one next week and I have to pay $500 for each bank inspection. Trying to get him to take a lesser amount I could pay out of pocket until then. Movers are scheduled for next Thursday.
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The Dave posted:Also is that low voltage box supposed to be offcentered? Assuming this is for a TV and wondering how that is going to play with the thermostat. The wall extends to the right past the picture, the TV would comfortably fit if we had a way to wire it. There's a bunch of little things like this that'll have to get taken care of. Dings in walls. A Broken window. Broken toilet seat. The fan in the master bath doesn't turn off. Shower door is the only missing big thing I can think of, but we don't need that to move.
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Jun 7, 2017 13:44
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Popped over to go over the list of stuff left and hand over another big chunk of money. He was on top of pretty much everything. Shower door is being measured tomorrow. Couldn't do lawn today, too wet. The fan in the bathroom that stays on... is supposed to stay on. It goes down to 1/3 speed and is apparently some newish code. Anyone ever hear of that?
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Jun 7, 2017 21:46
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silvergoose posted:Stays on all the time forever, or whenever the light is on, or... Forever. Light on, full fan. Full fan stays on for a couple minutes after you turn it off. Slow, nearly silent, fan on after. I found a little info online saying this is normal in tightly sealed houses but it seems bizarre to me.
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Jun 8, 2017 01:47
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Mount talk a bit late, I bought two of these last week: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012S4APK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Today I get to replace all the smoke detectors in my old house. Upgrading the battery units to wireless and tying them into the other half of the house that has hard-wired units.
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Jun 8, 2017 19:48
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As of yesterday. No lawn. No driveway. No final inspections. New furniture delivery Wednesday. Movers on Thursday. Good thing we planned a week buffer.
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Jun 9, 2017 14:52
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Just sent off an email to the builder with the list of stuff to finish, for your enjoyment: The left AC condenser doesn't turn on. Kitchen sink isn't working (maybe there's a valve I didn't see?) There's a hole in the wall in the playroom behind the door. Looks like the light switch got moved and never patched. Are the kitchen outlets supposed to have green instead of red lights? (maybe that's normal?) I got the new faucet in to replace the leaking one upstairs Would it be possible to put some shelves in the upstairs bathroom next to the shower in that weird space? There is no way I'd get those angles right. The master shower only has 2 shelves instead of the three. That's fine the way it is, but let's make sure we only pay for two. There is a missing outlet behind the wood stove (there are box/wires there, just not an outlet) Microwave outlet - Let's go ahead and drill a hole towards the middle, we won't have the unit soon. Looks like the painter was still working since there were a bunch of places being patched, here's a list of a few things besides those: The threshold to the studio isn't stained. The baseboards are pulling away from the wall in a few spots, probably just caulk it up? Paint the attic hatch The boards under the hearth need to be stained. Behind master shower needs painting There's a bunch of paint splatter under the front and back doors. And you know about these already: Grass seeding Shower Door Driveway Paving Broken basement window (I didn't look, maybe it was done) Broken front hall light Master bedroom TV conduit
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Jun 12, 2017 01:24
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peanut posted:All our light switches have green indicator lights to help find them at night (no green indicator when it's on). The fans switches are off when off and red when on. These are the outlets.  I'm used to seeing green lights for "all is good" on these things, but maybe it just differs depending on model.
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Jun 12, 2017 13:06
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MrEnigma posted:I think it depends on the brand. Current ones are no lights until they trip, then it's red. Last ones were green when on. Playing with the buttons was off on tripped red on reset. I'm guessing it's normal. Overall, this was one of the smaller concerns in the list, just posted again to show Peanut what I meant.
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Jun 12, 2017 13:28
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Got a driveway.  Still need a curb, but that's going in tomorrow. Building inspector gave his final sign-off, so we can move in on Thursday. A lot of that punch list from the other day is still to do.
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Jun 13, 2017 15:05
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Do you have reflectors on that wooden fence thingy at the turn? I'll paint it: http://mymodernmet.com/vantablack-worlds-blackest-black/ We're planning on adding some of those solar post top lights to those. Reflectors probably wouldn't be a bad idea too. Boogalo posted:How much does the person driving the moving truck hate you? Two Trucks! Speaking of which, I'm really hoping the asphalt hardens up in time. Yesterday and today are hot, but the nights are going to get into the 50's so I'm thinking we're good. H110Hawk posted:When do we get a video of you attempting to take that Audi TT up this at speed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFwIlflmk2Y&t=60s
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Jun 13, 2017 17:11
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Been a busy 5 days. The pre-move walkthrough: https://vimeo.com/222347557 Moving day was interesting. 8 Movers show up and get all our stuff onto trucks in a couple hours. We get to the new house, start going down the driveway, and realize the trucks are too heavy on the new asphalt and can't drive them down. Moving company gets 4 more dudes over and they walk everything from the street.  You can also see the lawn seeded & hayed there. Been having a real hot & wet week, haven't had to water yet, should have grass soon. We've had a frequent visitor  Turns out a new house has a ton of little projects. Closet storage, shelves in laundry room, hanging hooks, etc. That and unpacking have kept me very busy. We had a very heavy rain last night, so I was able to see how drainage works with our driveway. It was a lake. Maybe 4 inches deep. Nothing in the garage, which was good. I waded out and figured out the problem. There was a lip of weedcloth under the gravel that was acting like a dam. I dug out some gravel, laid the weedcloth flat, and it drained pretty well after that. I'll have to do it proper when it's not under water. Still got a list of things for the builder to finish up. quote:- White paint splatter along bottoms of doors (front door, French doors) Landscaper starts mid July. After that, I think we're more or less done. For selling the old house, I needed a smoke detector certificate. Turns out the previous owners hadn't done the system to code. Half the house was hard-wired, the other half battery operated. It should have all been hardwired when it was last renovated. Luckily, the inspector was willing to accept me putting in wireless detectors in the old half. First Alert has these nifty units that are battery operated, but all interconnected. They also have a wired unit that acts as a bridge to tie the wireless and wired systems together. Couple hundred dollars to replace 7 detectors.
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Jun 20, 2017 14:09
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Potato Salad posted:Who is the fucker in the bathroom mirror? If you look close enough, my wife made an appearance in a completely different part of the video too.
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Jun 20, 2017 18:54
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Arachnamus posted:Lookin' good. Painting is done. There is no olive. Do you mean the main gray color? This pic is a bit more true to real life: http://imgur.com/d7pE4hH
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Jun 20, 2017 19:44
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xwing posted:Your finish carpenter appears to have done a good job. The switch placements make my heart ache a bit though... like at 0:45 with the cover looking to be cut. There doesn't seem to be a consistency to their placement. Finish was the builder himself, he's a former cabinet guy. Switch placement was half our fault. We walked the house with electrician and pointed out where they should go. Probably could have had some better planning.
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Jun 22, 2017 17:23
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Was supposed to receive the last payment from the bank today. Bank @ 10am: Lol, Forgot to ask. Send us the occupancy permit and proof of insurance paid for a year. Problems there. 1. Builder is holding permit ransom until last check 2. I only paid for a month of insurance since cashflow is loving tight without this $180k they owe me. 3. I'm on a business trip ok, no problem. Call builder, get him to send over a pic of the permit. Call insurance lady and convince her to take payment over phone. Send everything to bank within like a half hour. 3 hours later Bank: Can you send a better copy of the permit that contains the entire document. WTF. The pic was perfectly readable and only missed a sliver of blank space at the bottom. gently caress you.
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Jun 29, 2017 19:39
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Shower door went in today They're coming back tomorrow to clean up some of the caulking, but looks pretty great. Since I last wrote we got the last bank check and paid off the builder. Landscaper comes next week.
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Jul 10, 2017 19:13
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I've got a set of these to install http://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-Satin-Nickel-Light-Duty-Hinge-Pin-Door-Stop-15102/202033955 e: Wait.. yeah.. when the *shower door is open*, that's a problem. Looks like I need to move the hangar to the closet door instead of that one. Then the door just hits the shower door handle Gounads fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Jul 11, 2017 01:26
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Radon test came back. 40pCi/L EPA Recommendation: 4pCi/L Luckily the builder installed all the piping, just need to add the fan unit. Hopefully that fixes it.
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Jul 11, 2017 22:06
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Raised by Hamsters posted:Good call on the piping - The rows under the full foundation? That's what I figured, it's a really common problem. Yes, rows under foundation, we have crushed stone and the plastic barrier thing under the concrete floor so it should be an effective fix. Bought a fan and a digital radon meter off Amazon, comes in Friday. I went up into the attic to see what I had to work with. Builder said he put an outlet up there for this purpose, but I couldn't find it digging around in the blown-in insulation. Got a call out to him to figure out where. But worse-case, there's a line for the bathroom fan right nearby that I could tap into and add an outlet. This should be a quick morning job on Saturday.
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Jul 12, 2017 13:08
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Hovering between 0.65 -> 0.83 pCi/L - Mitigation system success.
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Jul 17, 2017 15:10
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Next problem to deal with... https://vimeo.com/226023693
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Jul 18, 2017 17:26
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Where is all the water coming from? Roof, driveway, etc? I'm at the end of a dead end. Hill slopes towards me, so I get all the water from the entire road.  (There are now curbs on both sides of the driveway that weren't in that picture.) The road (like most) is higher in the middle so water flows down the edges. Half of that water goes left before it hits my driveway and drains just outside my driveway, previously undercutting it. I've got that mostly solved by moving around some big rocks. I've got a few tons of 1" rocks coming in next week that should finish solving it. That water ends up in a swampy area and is no problem. (That's the green line) The other half hits my curb (right at that big rock to the right of the pole) and comes down the driveway, and that's the problem. (the pink line) I'm thinking of cutting into that curb and draining some of that water down my lawn to the right, but I need to be careful about not eating away the hill because there is sewer, water, and electrical lines buried. At the bottom (seen in the video) I'm thinking of taking the rocks down level with the driveway so it doesn't pool up so much. The real problem happens when we get 6" of water that bursts through the rocks and drags them away. I think we would have been ok if we hadn't collected half a storm of rain before quickly draining it.
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Jul 18, 2017 18:41
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Walkways & landscaping are in.    Along the driveway are 14 cleavland pears, which don't fruit but look amazing in spring & fall. When they get to full size, they should come just short of touching, should give a really nice look. In the front are 4 fruiting apple and 2 fruiting pear. At some point we will plant some shrubs & stuff between the trees to make it look nice. In the fall, we're splitting and stealing hostas from both of our parents for along the outside of the front walkway. Not sure what's going in the mulched beds yet. Before the front walk, visitors who haven't been here tended to walk through the garage to the door. After it was put in, everyone is using it to the front door which is real nice. For the water problem, a drain got put in next to the driveway at the bottom and it handled 2" of rain in an hour just fine shortly after being put in. We re-graded the top to divert half the street water away, but haven't had a storm since doing that to see how it worked. I guess this is the end of the project, hope you enjoyed following along.
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Aug 16, 2017 16:08
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Vulcan posted:Don't know what kind of mulch that is but unless insects are unheard of in your region I'd keep a close eye on it and make sure it doesn't retain much moisture. This is common around here. As long as the mulch isn't up to the sill you're fine. neogeo0823 posted:I'm still catching up on the thread, but my wife and I are basically in the same situation you were at the start, minus a couple steps. How did you go about finding and buying the land you built your house on? If you haven't yet, can you go into some detail about that?(If you have, please link me to the post, as I haven't gotten that far yet) The threads been a really good read so far, and it's been extremely enlightening to see what we've failed to account for and consider so far. Not going to be much help there. My father-in-law couldn't sell the plot, so he sold it to us cheap. Between grading, driveway, etc, we probably spent $50k extra because of the geography. It's no wonder he had trouble selling it.
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Aug 17, 2017 14:21
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Michael Corleone posted:Your grass is coming along well. My dad moved into a new build last October and the grass still looks really bad, though it is finally starting to come along. The month after planting we had a good soaking rain in the evenings 4 or 5 times a week and bright sunny days. Couldn't have asked for better weather. I had a beautiful full lawn until the landscapers tore it up running the excavator over it for the walkway & trees. New grass is starting to come up in the bare spots now. The trick for new grass is lots of water. On dry hot days I water twice a day. I also over-seeded after the initial grass was up and cut for the first time (that's probably overkill).
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Modus Man posted:I loved reading this thread! Thank you for taking the time to document all of this. The wife and I are working on splitting a piece of property right now, and then it will be on to beginning this whole process. Right now we are waiting for the survey company to do their work, 2-3 weeks, and then we can submit everything to the township and county for their approval which they told us could take 6 weeks. So we are looking at 9 weeks just to find out if the property split is approved. We designed and built our own house 10 years ago, as in grab a hammer and a box of nails babe, and can't wait to do it again. I love your shower will be getting some inspiration from some of your choices. Start a thread.
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