tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64544944691464254312024-02-19T16:51:24.148-08:00Our Path to Florence - Building a Ryan HomeThis blog details the steps my wife and I experience building a Ryan Home Florence model. This follows our journey from original meeting up through the closing, with pictures along the way. It is based on our opinions and experiences with Ryan Homes, and the steps in new construction building a Florence model home.Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-20770269155273496282014-06-17T16:39:00.004-07:002014-06-17T16:39:37.399-07:00"Almost" Final Walk Through<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Today my wife and I started out the day with a trip over to our future house for our final walk through. Well under normal circumstances this might have been the final walk through, but we requested an additional quick walk through the morning of closing. It was recommended to do so by some of our friends being that there was so many days between this walk through and closing, to ensure everything is in order before officially signing the papers. That walk through should be quick and easy since we had this one. </div>
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Our closing date is pretty much rock solid at this point this Friday June 20th at 10, at a nearby title agency office. Our lawyer was in contact with the title agency and NVR Mortgage to secure the final documents ahead of the closing in order to get a jump on reviewing them as well as providing me the number that I will need to show up with at closing.</div>
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There have been a few additions to the house since our last look, so lets take a look at them before we go through the procedure of the final walk through.</div>
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Shelving</h4>
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The closets, pantry and laundry room are supplied with the white wire shelves. In the pantry the shelves are supported by being screwed directly into the studs along the back wall with a vertical support. The perpendicular shelves have one end in studs and the other with a brace at intersection with the back wall shelves. </div>
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Kitchen Final Touches</h4>
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The kitchen has been finalized all the appliances are hooked up in their respective places and the plumbing is completed. The kitchen sink is a shallow stainless steel two equally sided sink. It is topped by a chrome Moen faucet.</div>
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The left side sink features a 1/4 horsepower garbage disposal, this is not standard option in most Ryan Homes unless its mandated to be included by the town as it was in our instance. You can get this as an upgrade if it doesn't come standard, and I would recommend getting one. If you never had one, it is a great option as it allows the evacuation of table scraps or unused food products without having them stink up your garbage or attach animals to your garbage cans.</div>
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Banisters and Railings</h4>
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The banisters and railings ship to the house and are installed unfinished and are stained to match hardwood floors or cabinets in the house. The final product looks fantastic and we are so happy we went with the full banister setup instead of the partial wall or the customized.<br />
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Bathroom Finishing Touches<br />
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We have seen most of the bathroom work had been completed but there was a few finishing touches necessary to complete them. The final steps are to install towel and toilet paper holders, and in the case of the double shower the shower door. The fixtures are simple not to flashy, but go with the general silver look. The towel rack is one bar with rounded ends and has one in each bathroom. We went out an bought back of the door racks that we will put up upon moving in for general use towel holding, leaving the single rack available for hand towels. </div>
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The toilet paper holder is simple design as well with the same rounded ends that match the towel holder. The center is you typical plastic piece that shrinks to allow for the paper roll to be added or removed. In the upstairs hallway bathroom the toilet paper holder is attached to the vanity.</div>
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The shower door in the double shower of the mater bathroom is a glass and metal design with the door closest to the front of the shower. It is not a slider but a swinging door which swings from the middle out towards the front of the shower.</div>
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Front Door<br />
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As you may remember from earlier post the front door always ships in white and is painted on location after it is installed. Our door color is black fox, which completes the three color setup that is designed by Ryan Homes, Irish Thistle siding and berry shutters completes the pattern.</div>
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Landscaping<br />
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The final outside item is the sod on the front yard, laid up to the front corners of the house and the rest is seeded and fertilized. The sod looks great and will be the best lawn I ever owned once we move in. Now it will be up to me to make sure it maintains itself that way.</div>
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The front yard is is long across the front which leaves us plenty of room to add additional landscaping, the spot in the very front left of the yard will ultimately be home to a pink flowering dogwood tree, my wife's favorite.</div>
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The front right is the shorter side of the property from the house to the end of the property line, but it is still much further than our current house. When added up the space on the two sides of the house is about the same width of our current lots entire front. Lots more yard work, but it will be worth it as it looks great.</div>
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I will follow up with an additional post on the results of the walk through and later a post the final results of the closing.</div>
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Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-50201135363730816012014-06-13T15:45:00.001-07:002014-06-13T19:23:49.983-07:00Final Walk Through Officially Scheduled<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hectic is the only word I can describe, I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are moving from their current house to the new one and have to close on the same day. My wife and I are surrounded by boxes now, as we have been working on packing up every weekend and some nights after work.</div>
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We heard word from Bob, our project manager, that we are all set for Monday June 16 final walk through. For all you Ryan Home Buyers or prospective buyers this next set of information is for you. The paper work from settlement and title agency are going to be cryptic, make sure to call and ask questions as soon as you are provided your settlement coordinator and title agency representative. </div>
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About a month ago we received a message stating "Now is the time to contact utility companies and prepare to switch them over", well after talking to the settlement coordinator, this should not be done until a few days before closing, once the date is settled and finalized. This way you don't end up having them switched too early.</div>
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Additionally you will be getting Title insurance information, review this close there will be a list of items it does not cover, be sure you know what you are getting and what you are not. One of the last items you get is a survey of the property with the house drawn on, keep this and save it, as you will need this when its time to add a deck, patio, shed or fence to get town permits. Without this you very well may be getting a surveyor out there to redo it.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Now that we have moved into the final week before closing the time to do a lot of posts diminishes, but I will do my best to post through it all and even afterwards. One thing I am doing to help you visualize the build better is pages that capture each room through each phase, picture only view of the house. I hope this helps you if you are looking to buy a Florence and want to see a particular room through the whole build.</div>
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I calling this series One Room View, and have the master bathroom page completed. Check it out <a href="http://buildingflorence.blogspot.com/p/one-room-view.html">here</a>.</div>
Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-86868030338220833972014-06-11T20:57:00.001-07:002014-06-11T20:57:04.504-07:00Carpets Installed<div style="text-align: justify;">
The carpeted area of the Ryan Home Florence model, is everywhere not the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room, foyer and morning room (when applicable). You are given the choice of one of five carpet selections to fill all the carpet areas and there is nothing darker than light tan. The default options do not give much selection, and is a must upgrade in our opinion. Read more <a href="http://buildingflorence.blogspot.com/2014/02/fun-with-flooring.html">here</a> about the experience picking out our carpet and other flooring if you haven't already to know the trials we went through.</div>
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Our selection for the house was a Level B carpet which features base stain guard in it and a 10 year warranty versus the 5 year one on the base model. Additionally there is a few more color options, including the one we selected "Fresh Coffee." You are able to pick out different colors in different rooms when you upgrade, where as in the base model you need to pay for color changes if you selected different colors in different rooms.</div>
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When we entered the house we found that there was carpeting, but it was covered by plastic. This protects the carpet as the crews continue to work on the other items throughout the house.</div>
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In some rooms the corner or some area of the carpet were exposed, so I was able to get a few different pictures. The family room was one area were the carpets were exposed so we we able to see, and it looks great. We are much happier with this selection over the base option which looked to have a pink undertone. The fact that we have animals it makes sense to have the stain guard in the carpet.<br />
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You will notice the dark brown color of the carpet is slightly lighter in natural sunlight versus the energy efficient light bulbs available in the lighting fixtures. In the loft there is the two windows on the front of the house and thus the room has great natural light. </div>
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The carpet and laminate floors come together at a number of places throughout the house and its important to see the two next to each other. In an effort to simulate this while we picked I sat the samples directly next to each other. Now that we see the real thing it looks even better. The first area the laminate meets between the living room and the foyer. If you remember the foyer was one of the laminates we decided to leave a the default. The base laminate looks better than expected</div>
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The other areas they meet up is between the family room and kitchen and this stretch represents the longest run between two rooms. The carpet looks great next to the memories tile in the kitchen.</div>
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I didn't take any pictures of the hallway bathroom next to the carpet, but I did get a look at the carpet in the master bedroom next to the tile in the master bathroom and it came out great. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">If the budget was there we would have upgraded the padding underneath as well. Additionally we choose the neutral color and not something like blue, so that we had the maximum options when it came time to paint and decorate.</span><br />
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<br />Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-47082937240367602102014-06-10T19:40:00.001-07:002014-06-10T19:43:10.376-07:00Kitchen Improvements<div style="text-align: justify;">
As the days countdown until closing, it seems like the days are shorter, every minute is filled with something. Its a very busy time at work, the train I commute on is under construction, and we are getting all packed up at home. There is so much to do, the weekends are not overly restful but there is certainly excitement to get us by. On our latest visit there has been a lot of things done, lets take a look at the improvements in the kitchen.</div>
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The base options in the kitchen are very basic, functioning but very much an entry line of General Electric (GE) appliances. We choose an upgraded appliance package that included upgrades to the microwave, dishwasher and range. This was primarily for the range upgrade so we could get a glass top electric range, but an upgraded microwave and dishwasher came with the "Feature III" package.</div>
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The microwave is installed into the wall above the range and has an exhaust fan which can suck steam and air up from range and vent it outside the house through the vent we saw in the kitchen in the post from before the walls being closed up. The microwave is a sharp looking GE device which contains a metal rack in the center. This is odd to me as we have always been told no metal in a microwave. I guess there will be some owners manual reading in my future.</div>
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The microwave had a note taped to the outside, a sort of checklist of items which needed some TLC. It appears that Bob left some notes for the crew to take care to correct. Just below the microwave is the space for the range. Our glass top range also a GE appliance in jet black. We had become accustom to the electric cooking, but not the typical exposed coils you see. This caused for a two level upgrade to get the glass top. The upgrade is worth it the glass top range has two large elements up front, with the one on the right variable in size and featuring a speed boil option. The back row is filled with three smaller elements. While the range was delivered it had not yet been installed on our last visit. </div>
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A refrigerator is not included and can either be bought through Ryan Homes and installed prior to closing or you need to go out and get it on your own after the fact. In our case we decided to go with the Ryan Homes option "F" a large black side by side with ice maker, ensuring it matched with the other appliances in the kitchen. The ice maker has a dual function single spot for ice and water. Its a really nice refrigerator with variable ice settings. </div>
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The final appliance featured in the kitchen is the dishwasher. The same as all the others is a jet black GE product, upgraded from the base model as part of the package deal to bring in the glass top range. All the devices are energy star rated. It will be interesting to get back into a house with a dishwasher, as our current house doesn't have one. </div>
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Counter Top</h4>
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Based on reading other Ryan Homes blogs, one of the incentive offers provided is a granite counter upgrade, however this was not the case in our development. I am happy it wasn't, while a granite top would be fantastic, look great and last a long time it was certainly not on our necessity list. Our incentive as you know was drastically price reduced finished basement. The base option counter top is a laminate featuring about 8 to 10 selections. Its been a while since we made the selections so I can't recall the exact number, but it was sufficient with varying color options.<br />
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We chose a granite look featuring browns and blacks. Dark enough to provide some variation from the oak cabinets, but not too one colored looking really dark option. Our current house's counter top is a speckled dark counter top so we wanted something a little different. As you can see from above it came out great, had you not know it was laminate and not granite you may not have been able to tell from the picture. Not going with granite was a huge cost savings option and it was definitely one you can hold out for until some point in the future, the base laminate is nice. </div>
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Here are a few different views of the counter top, including a panoramic look at the counter.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen Counters as Viewed from the Morning Room</td></tr>
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The nice part about the laminate is there is no seems, if they have them they are impossible to see. From the looks of it they brought one piece to cover from the gourmet island around to the microwave.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen Counter Top - Panoramic View</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen Counter Against Oak Cabinets</td></tr>
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The final kitchen item which was new on our last visit was the seating of the kitchen sink atop the counter. The laminate counters come with a stainless steel sink. It sits above the counter not recessed like the ones that are installed granite tops. The only complaint is the depth of the sink, it is very very shallow, and we are coming from a deep sink, which will be a tough adjustment.</div>
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Also completed the last time we were through was the carpet installation, which we will take a look at in the next post. Bare with me as there is a lot going on these final weeks to prepare for the move its become tougher to get the time to keep up on the blog.</div>
Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-7020601969468888122014-06-08T06:27:00.001-07:002014-06-08T06:28:03.117-07:00Our Calendar is Starting to Fill OutWe recieved an email from NVR that our loan was out of processing and had been moved to the closing team. They have set a date of June 20th at 10AM for closing! While is still called tenative it is pretty likely at his point that we will be meeting that date.<div><br></div><div>On my Friday call with Bob, our Project Manager, he mentioned that he is leaning towards setting the final walk through on June 16th, the Monday before the scheduled Friday closing. It is all coming together fast now, it feels like it was just yesterday we were first walking through the model.</div>Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-30409782187815346532014-06-05T20:07:00.003-07:002014-06-05T20:07:42.125-07:00Electrical Fixtures Installed and Functioning<div style="text-align: justify;">
The next set of items up in the installation are the electrical fixtures there are a whole lot of them so we will move through them in two sections the first showing the outdoor fixtures and then we will take a look into the indoor ones.</div>
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Outdoor Electric</h4>
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The standard outdoor electric on the Ryan Homes Florence Model is three light fixtures and two electircal outlets. There is two lighting fixtures in the front of the house one on the corner of the house near the garage and one next to the front door. The fixtures themselves are the same in those two locations. The default fixture is nice a globe with spire on top and bottom.</div>
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The light fixture at the backdoor is much simpler in design than the front ones. It does have the same dark metal finish but is a small rectangle fixture, a little larger than a standard light bulb. The back door is much higher off the ground elevation so the angle on my picture is not that great but it gives an idea of the look of the fixture.</div>
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The two electrical outlets which come standard on the house are one next to the front door and one on the back corner of the house, behind the kitchen if you don't have the morning room and on the back wall of the morning room when you have that option. They are your typical outdoor outlets covered from the elements with a plastic case. We decided to get an additional outlet added to the back of the house on the wall behind the family room. This is where we will ultimately be building our deck and it will provide us electric out there.</div>
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In addition to the extra electric outlet we added one additional element a flood light for the back yard. Our yard is a big wooded lot and we thought the standard small fixture next to the back sliding door would not provide enough light should we need to light up the back yard for our dog to go out and my wife's parents have one on there house which works well there so we added it. I highly recommend this option, as to add it later would be tricky since the light switch location would be next to the door and that's a long way to run power after the walls are closed up. Ask your Sales Rep for the options cost list early in the process if not before signing so you can get an idea about all the upgrades, this one was not overly expensive and its highly functioning.</div>
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As you can see there was one nice thing about the flood light install, Bob mentioned they put it in right next to the upstairs window so bulb replacement didn't require a ladder. A good thing since ladders are not my favorite.</div>
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Indoor Lighting</h4>
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We have already seen the electrical hub of the house in the behind the walls posts, and now we will start to look at the connections on the inside that are connected to that box. We will look at the different types of fixtures, most of which are standard base model as replacement of them will be easy later on.</div>
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First up lets look at the indoor lighting. The one light fixture we noticed which stood out from the rest was the one in the foyer on the ceiling just inside the front door. It is a bowl separated from the ceiling, we were expecting the standard ceiling dome here which we planned to replace, but now seeing this we may be able to wait a little longer.</div>
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There are two types of dome lights in the house the ones in open rooms and the ones in large closets like the master closet and pantry. The lights in the open area are domes with a silver ring at the base butted directly up against the ceiling. The ones in closets are simpler design a white ring with a muffin top dome of frosted glass.<br />
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The fancy dome light is located in the downstairs hallway between the living room and family room, as well as two of them one directly at the top of the stairs and one further down the hall closer to the master bedroom entrance.</div>
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The not as fancy version found on the ceiling of the pantry and one the wall just above the doorway of the master bedroom walk in closet. The same fixture one installed on the vertical and one on the horizontal.</div>
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The bathroom light fixtures has the silver look, in the master bathroom it is slightly larger than the ones in the other two bathrooms. The master bathroom features a four light design with frosted glass cones over each socket. The other bathrooms are the same fixture but only two lights</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9y_LGO2qhCnbY9kBhAUxXzG4Spn2UqLHeg1fNAJf2YLbgN6xkoTl1rRyiq-ffb5keMBl4_MAPfg_tmKLoPx0sQ9glqhahDCxd0mBxvdVzM__UZMiEUafP3vkgM2M5oGo8wMYHOR-M2A/s1600/DSC04654.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A picture of the light fixture in master bathroom" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9y_LGO2qhCnbY9kBhAUxXzG4Spn2UqLHeg1fNAJf2YLbgN6xkoTl1rRyiq-ffb5keMBl4_MAPfg_tmKLoPx0sQ9glqhahDCxd0mBxvdVzM__UZMiEUafP3vkgM2M5oGo8wMYHOR-M2A/s1600/DSC04654.JPG" height="213" title="Ryan Homes Florence Model master bathroom light fixture" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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If you remember in some of the previous posts we discussed the kitchen lighting, and how we upgraded the lights from the standard long florescent fixture to recessed. The lights we working this time so we were able to get a look at them all lit up. They installed the new energy efficient bulbs in there so it take a minute or two for them to warm up, and actually shine bright.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOoLcMMZCRM1ABnePvX0Ed9Pb5YXfx9A9oMUdz__gwlL91VF6c0a4T8Gi-3KDFjoFrFl3fnU7CptoayY55PLGa4klRF0ZVlefSE2gqNST8sVvRI6juNuWpla-BHrlKiCHdQAGL20Cdhhc/s1600/DSC04621.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A picture of the recessed lighting in the kitchen" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOoLcMMZCRM1ABnePvX0Ed9Pb5YXfx9A9oMUdz__gwlL91VF6c0a4T8Gi-3KDFjoFrFl3fnU7CptoayY55PLGa4klRF0ZVlefSE2gqNST8sVvRI6juNuWpla-BHrlKiCHdQAGL20Cdhhc/s1600/DSC04621.JPG" height="213" title="Ryan Homes Florence Model Recessed lighting in the Kitchen" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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One thing we found out is the house has an unbelievable amount light switches. Since we added the rough ins that they install two switches to each, there is even more. It will take a while to figure them all out, might need a p-touch to get us started. </div>
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A lot of electrical powered items are throughout the house besides the lighting. The first item is a door bell, which is situated on the wall in hallway between the living room and family room. Its simple white box affixed to the wall.</div>
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Just down the hall from the door bell just near the end of the hallway wall where the stairway banister starts is the thermostat for the house. The Florence is a one zone house and it is all operated from this device. An electronic thermostat. A Honeywell device also in white, it was set to 66 the day we visited, guess it gets hot working inside as the summer approaches.</div>
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You may have remembered seeing a lot of duct work in some of the posts before the walls went up, some of that was set for bathroom exhausts. Each bathroom is equipped with an exhaust fan that sends the air out the house. Its a white cover with two sets of slats separated by a wider plastic center. </div>
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The final electrical item is featured in a number of locations and provides safety for the house. It is hardwired smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, found upstairs, downstairs and in the basement. The good thing about these devices is you never have to change batteries, but the bad thing is if you burn something on the stove you may not be able to turn it off until you clear all the smoke out.</div>
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<br />Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-61855372298802931032014-06-03T19:20:00.001-07:002014-06-03T19:20:02.582-07:00Plumbing Fixtures Mostly Installed<div style="text-align: justify;">
The previous post took us through the first of three new items we encountered, the laminate floors. In this post we will continue to look at those items installed last week by taking a look at the plumbing fixtures, well at least the ones that are already in. Since the kitchen counters are not in and therefore the sink is neither, there is no kitchen plumbing fixtures.</div>
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All the plumbing fixture we selected were the base option, no upgrades. It didn't make a whole lot of sense to us to roll plumbing fixtures into a mortgage and pay for them for thirty years. Its very easy to fall in love with upgrades of this type as they add some life to the house but, be cautious they do affect the sale price but not the appraised value. If the appraised value is below the mortgage amount you will run into issues with the mortgage.</div>
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In the powder room on the main floor the bathroom features a white pedestal sink with a silver look Moen faucet. The toilet was a little shocking to us as it appears quite small, the back tank is much smaller than what we are used to seeing. This must have to do with energy efficiency, as it will utilize much less water than older and larger tanks.</div>
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The master bathroom features some of the same plumbing apparatus as the powder room, as it has the same silver look faucet and same toilet. The sink setup unless you upgrade to the double sink, is a single sink on the outside closet to the toilet with a large open counter on the other side. The counter top is a porcelain white look.</div>
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The master bathroom also features some items not found in the powder room. There are a few layouts of the bathroom which are the base options as you may remember we choose the double shower. If you choose the garden tub and small standing shower, you will have some extra fixtures not seen here but the shower fixtures will be the same. </div>
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I love the way the shower all came together, with the tile and bright silver fixtures, it just pops. In an up close look you can see the bright polished fixture against the deep tones of the tile.</div>
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The shower head is quite small in size, and might be one of the fixtures that is replaced early on, possibly a detachable one. We will have to see how the pressure holds up and how good the water flow out of the current one is before we decide. </div>
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The last place to with plumbing fixtures is the second floor hallway bathroom, it features the same toilet and faucet seen in the two other bathrooms and the same shower head as the master bathroom. The counter is the same bright white as seen in the master bathroom.</div>
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The shower dial looks the same as we saw in the master bathroom but it is just above the spigot and overflow setup as seen in your typical tub shower. The bright silver fixtures are still shiny bright against the white tile on the wall. These items are definitely ones you can upgrade at a later date in my opinion.</div>
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The next item up is from our same visit through the house, where we will look at electrical fixtures some of which are base options and some are upgrades.</div>
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In the latest visit there is as many updates as ever before on a single visit. It has been really busy preparing for the move at our current house and a really busy time at work so I haven't been able to visit as much to the site as I would like. My wife and I have been making it out on the weekends though. Two more weekend visits and then the next weekend we will have already closed if the schedule holds true and we close of June 20.</div>
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The laminate flooring, plumbing and electrical fixtures have been been installed, lets take a few posts and look at them in that order.</div>
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There are a number of locations which come with laminate flooring as the base option. These consist of the foyer, bathrooms, kitchen, dinette, laundry room and morning room. We upgraded the tile in the master bathroom which upgraded us to the ceramic tiles which we already saw in the <a href="http://buildingflorence.blogspot.com/2014/06/bathroom-tile-work.html">bathroom tile post</a>. The remainder of the rooms we stuck with the laminate. We upgraded all of the remaining rooms except the foyer, as you may remember from the flooring <a href="http://buildingflorence.blogspot.com/2014/02/fun-with-flooring.html">post.</a></div>
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The base model laminate looks like textured tile, but doesn't have actual texture. We stuck with the default level in the foyer, selecting pattern called initiator 66181, to save a few dollars knowing that its such a small area if we needed to replace it with a hardwood or Pergo flooring later it would not be an over abundance of cost involved. Well as it turned out the flooring looked a lot better there than I had expected. It was covered by cardboard and an upside down sheet of extra laminate to protect it so I had to pull back the cover to get a picture.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Xcb4tyokVjpA0zi415kCOCYBMRR753ufz2n9JPQADazieSd2CgViNTY4U5WZXijYxF7nE4-P-3Tvg0H94UaDuMpHf6MuRPc7QCHOEDGo3TCul2XMCHyxQMCVc0Nv1l4qWyo0-7C0qxo/s1600/DSC04590.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Picture of the installed flooring in the foyer" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Xcb4tyokVjpA0zi415kCOCYBMRR753ufz2n9JPQADazieSd2CgViNTY4U5WZXijYxF7nE4-P-3Tvg0H94UaDuMpHf6MuRPc7QCHOEDGo3TCul2XMCHyxQMCVc0Nv1l4qWyo0-7C0qxo/s1600/DSC04590.JPG" height="213" title="Ryan Homes Florence Model base option flooring in the foyer." width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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In the powder room and the upstairs bathrooms we selected one of the memories pattern 62943, which is in level C. It is a tan textured tile look, with actual texture in the laminate. The grout lines are beveled and in the tile squares themselves there is grooves and textures to add to the depth of the pattern. Rather than have the same flooring throughout the house it made sense to us to pick a slightly different pattern for these two rooms.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gFFtUNg3Ga3AjH25ouVDdWF7twgEmK5k4xO3w8sIRz22X9bGpT5Vs8c-ShG9Qz0mv407-ttasouyXIc1DBwqlWhoFVm8ytIFP75vkenPd5vMM0tgo0xHp6_5hoMfAFQoE5lABgFhZM0/s1600/DSC04600.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Picture of the flooring in the powder room." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gFFtUNg3Ga3AjH25ouVDdWF7twgEmK5k4xO3w8sIRz22X9bGpT5Vs8c-ShG9Qz0mv407-ttasouyXIc1DBwqlWhoFVm8ytIFP75vkenPd5vMM0tgo0xHp6_5hoMfAFQoE5lABgFhZM0/s1600/DSC04600.JPG" height="213" title="Ryan Homes Florence model powder room flooring upgraded to level C, memories 62943." width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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The same pattern has a slightly different look based on the lighting as you can see in the following picture from the upstairs featuring the same floor as the above picture.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqRJ3nhnrIC3gngLE3mbFN7mQnLs0-npyTY4laWFcZHCUuQGP-EodTO8KXsYf3FeRGlBMaKc0RhfThMEgWFzqg0UH8_LTujnBZ3Jf7SuxH1sbwACLfYTH2rwek5f6f2Y7Asub6B1tYoI/s1600/DSC04658.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Picture of the hallway bathroom flooring" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqRJ3nhnrIC3gngLE3mbFN7mQnLs0-npyTY4laWFcZHCUuQGP-EodTO8KXsYf3FeRGlBMaKc0RhfThMEgWFzqg0UH8_LTujnBZ3Jf7SuxH1sbwACLfYTH2rwek5f6f2Y7Asub6B1tYoI/s1600/DSC04658.JPG" height="213" title="Ryan Homes Florence model upstairs hallway bathroom flooring upgraded to level C, memories 62943." width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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The remaining floor which covers the kitchen, dinette and morning room is a different memories pattern also level C, numbered 62942. This flooring was the one we saw in one of the houses being built when Jackie our Sales Rep took us through to see some of the closer to finished work and get ideas for our flooring. This features the same texturing as the other memories pattern, just in a slightly different color. This is another one that has different color base don the lighting, but I guess that is true for any color. We can see when the natural sunlight hits the floor through the slider doors in the morning room there is one color.</div>
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When we are further back all the way by where the refrigerator will ultimately reside there is a slightly different color. I would highly recommend the memories pattern if your budget allows for the 2 level upgrade. If not stick with the base level as the level B options we saw were not as nice as what were available in the base.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIOCmob3glXsKGLD-8rdtuMRz5N1rFUHb7EyAAxPhOING8Zt1uihMRHZM6Nd96eNnS9ch6SudO30lr84AiqJF4km0wbi25sZa6wk-FJgF6zE9DV5lYRYKHJD-XrtMLGiNYzCNHglTZwU/s1600/DSC04614.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Picture of the kitchen flooring" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIOCmob3glXsKGLD-8rdtuMRz5N1rFUHb7EyAAxPhOING8Zt1uihMRHZM6Nd96eNnS9ch6SudO30lr84AiqJF4km0wbi25sZa6wk-FJgF6zE9DV5lYRYKHJD-XrtMLGiNYzCNHglTZwU/s1600/DSC04614.JPG" height="213" title="Ryan Homes Florence model kitchen flooring upgraded to level C, memories 62942." width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Coming up next, more views from the same visit, as we will look at plumbing fixtures that are installed to date.<br />
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<br />Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-81117332593697554282014-06-02T16:09:00.000-07:002014-06-02T16:09:30.523-07:00Some Issues Arise<div style="text-align: justify;">
We are closing in on our closing, things are really shaping up as you have seen by the progress in the recent posts. On a recent visit to the home, we ran into a few things that were upsetting to us. We were visiting with the Sales representative, since it was over a holiday weekend, but the issues need to be handled by our project manager, so we had to wait until after the long weekend. I left Bob our PM a message with the following items.</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">The most major issue we encountered was the windows of the morning room not being level against the ones next to them. It became very evident when they put the windows sills on that the three windows were not leveled against each other. The biggest issue we had was the sub-contractors didn't do a single sill like in the model home but rather separated it into three. It didn't look good at all </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">There was a spill in the family room area a little slippery as the liquid looked to be more of a paste than just liquid.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">We found cigarette butts laying around the inside of the house.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Some other minor scuffs in the sheet rock and one of the doors.</li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Bob and one of his assistants were able to go in and fix the headers, top of the window indent. It appears the person who did the spackling was a little heavy handed on the one end and lighter on the other end. So Bob snapped a chalk line and pull out some of the spackle on the low end and get them aligned in the top. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Bob said he believed it to be water spilled while the drywall contractors were wet sanding. This could be possible, and maybe it mixed with the spakle dust causing the pasty type consistency. We will monitor this to see what it looks like before the rug goes down to make sure it has dried and is not an issue.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Bob said they are not supposed to be smoking in the houses. We have been back since and there are new cigarette butts in the house. In our opinion this is unprofessional and rude as the smoke permeates things especially drywall.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">We will watch this as these are the types of things the PM lets you know up front will happen, but just give them time it will all be fixed up before closing.</li>
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I will be sure to update this page as new information becomes available. The key to this whole process is to stay on top of things and visit with your PM or Sales Rep often especially once they start working inside. The sooner you see it and bring it up the better and easier the fix will be.</div>
Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-12039814894504916462014-06-02T15:40:00.002-07:002014-06-02T18:56:30.024-07:00Bathroom Tile Work<div style="text-align: justify;">
As the progress occurs now its an everyday something more gets added each day. On our last visit through the house we were surprised that the tile work for the two upstairs bathrooms had been completed. If you remember back to the post about flooring we had upgraded the master bathroom tile originally to level B but upon arriving at the flooring company we found out level B was not what we thought. </div>
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The base level option Level A is small square white tile, which you will see a little later in this post when we look at the hallway bathroom. It was our thought based on some conversations we had that Level B allowed for a fancy textured tile, we came to find out that was not true. Level B is just a larger white tile, with an off-white option as well. </div>
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Level C does provide for a large number of options from which we choose one of the latest additions to the selection list, Heathland. We loved this option when we saw it in the flooring showroom and we couldn't wait to see in in actual application.</div>
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Well the time has come for that very look. The Square large 12 inch by 12 inch tile will make up the flooring of the master bathroom while the rectangular one, 9 x 12, will make the walls of the shower and contain the mosaic accent. In the actual application under different lights it appears the tile is a little darker. This could be the lighting or the fact that the work was not complete since you can see the grout dust still on the wall. I didn't notice the color difference until looking at the above picture of the tile sample versus the up close of the actual application below.</div>
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The double shower looks fantastic with the fancy tile of Level C, it really brings the bathroom to life and provides a great selling point to the house. As we all know kitchens and bathrooms are the rooms that finalize the deal in housing. You will have options to add additional tile shelving, but we decided not to go with that option. The shower without that option will still have a soap dish as seen in the below picture.</div>
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The tile in the shower reaches to within six inches of the ceiling, I would have preferred for it to have reach all the way to the ceiling, but this must not be the design. I think it will certainly be one of the things I mention on the post delivery survey.</div>
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The floor tile was laid down as well, but covered by a cardboard layer to keep it as clean and pristine as there was a small section not covered for which I took a quick picture.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQcqN7lkadFYwUuT_ForxoV4xyiXI3M1i5UW1Cu4fsZuyuypGAu7-Zx9ThGEeidOffmTbIR1j7l1pYQKf5kuSd4uh-SsFkflL0I6MG1AOb29mo1Y4STkLT9jLLRyXZjM_A3fL3Mn_j_E/s1600/DSC04643.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Picture of the Heathland flooring tile." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQcqN7lkadFYwUuT_ForxoV4xyiXI3M1i5UW1Cu4fsZuyuypGAu7-Zx9ThGEeidOffmTbIR1j7l1pYQKf5kuSd4uh-SsFkflL0I6MG1AOb29mo1Y4STkLT9jLLRyXZjM_A3fL3Mn_j_E/s1600/DSC04643.JPG" height="213" title="Ryan Homes Master Bathroom flooring, with a Level C upgrade" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Out in the hallway bathroom, the tile is only in the shower as we stuck with the base option, which includes a vinyl floor and small white tiled shower. The tiles are the standard 6 inch by 6 inch tile, inside the shower, just shy of the ceiling. There is a simple white soup dish on the side wall of the shower. Below is a picture of the shower, sorry for the poor quality with the shadow caught on the bottom.</div>
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Next up will be laminate flooring, electrical and plumbing fixtures.<br />
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<br />Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-6855666431927319132014-05-29T19:42:00.001-07:002014-05-31T07:11:47.776-07:00The Inside Begins to Take Shape<div style="text-align: justify;">
We are now at a stage in where the major elements of the house structure are all completed and we begin to see the individual elements take shape. Each day new items are installed and we move closer to closing. The first items which have been installed into the house are the cabinets, doors and banisters. In our latest pass through the house we were shocked all these items were already in.</div>
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We stuck with the base model cabinets for a couple reasons, first of course is cost, and second the oak wood look of them is something we liked. It was something that had not happened too often, where the base model was actually the one we would have chosen anyway.</div>
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The primary location of the cabinets in the house is the kitchen. Our selection of the optional gourmet island, which is really more of a peninsula than an island, adds a pair of large cabinets. The cabinets of the gourmet island comes out on a twenty-five to thirty degree angle from the end of the half wall we have seen in a number of the kitchen pictures from prior posts.</div>
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To the right are the cabinets which will form the base of the sink, separated from the cabinets under the gourmet island by a gap which will ultimately house the dishwasher. In the corner further to the right of the sink is a cabinet which houses a lazy Susan. It is at this point where the above counter cabinets begin as well. </div>
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Beyond the corner is a run of cabinets both above and below where the counter will reside leading up to the location where the range will go as well as a wall installed microwave. You will notice that in this cut out area is a set of cabinets reaching all the way to the ceiling. Cabinet 9 feet above the floor, will be tough to really utilize, but it looks good. According Jackie our sales rep, this cabinet alignment is a new feature as part of the base setup. Previously the cabinets would have ended where you see the small cabinets begin about a foot from the ceiling.</div>
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A small section of cabinet in the kitchen separated from the rest are those which will be situated around the refrigerator. There is a set of small cabinets directly above where the refrigerator will ultimately reside. Additionally there is one cabinet above the counter and one below the cabinet to the left of the refrigerator. This location is one of the few areas where there is power hooked up, as you can see below there is an extension cord. If you remember in the post where we looked at the basement with drywall there was a yellow extension cord powering the sump pump, well this is the source. It wraps around from the kitchen, down the hall, then the steps and into the unfinished section of the basement.</div>
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The second place the cabinets are are the two full bathrooms. In the bathrooms Ryan Homes utilize the same cabinets in the base option as used in the kitchen. The setup is a single cabinet on the right with a few drawers on the left.</div>
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The master bathroom has the same cabinet as seen in the picture above, in the base option it is a single cabinet with a double wide counter, the side closest to the wall does not have any cabinet underneath. We did not want that setup so we had a second cabinet placed underneath.</div>
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We talked about the banisters versus the base option of a capped wall in the drywall installation second floor post, but at the time there was only pictures of the temporary banisters placed in the house for safety. On our most recent visit the temporary safety setup had been removed giving way to the final banister. There are tow options for the spindles in the banister, white wood or black metal. The wood spindles are less expensive than the metal, but still is a bit of a jump from the capped wall. </div>
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We had decided from early on that the bottom of the stair portion had to be banisters as we didn't like the idea of the capped wall. So we originally asked for a custom price to have just the bottom of the stairs be banister and the top a capped wall. Customized requests are not very affordable, as the price for that option came in just about two thirds the price of the full banister. This made the decision easy we would just go with the full banister setup, as the price difference didn't make much sense. As you will see the bottom banister makes up about a fifth or less of the total banister size.</div>
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The banister on the top wraps around the the staircase on all sides from the loft on the one side and the entire hallway on the other. I wasn't to sure about the banister in the loft area and thought the capped wall may look better there but that also would have been a custom job which would have most likely been priced out. Now that I am seeing the banisters in place, I am happy I didn't push for the loft side to be a capped wall. The light from the two windows in the loft and landing will radiate through the open banisters and fill the stairway. The following are a few different angles of the banisters at the top of the stairs.</div>
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You may have noticed in all the pictures of the banister that the wood looks natural but dull, this is due to the banisters when installed are not finished. They are finished onsite as one of the final items done. They will ultimately match pretty close to the cabinets in the kitchen. </div>
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The standard doors in the house are double panel look door, larger bottom panel and smaller top panel, which are hung on all interior doorways with exception of the one from the kitchen leading into the laundry room which is a is a slatted door. The one door which they offered as an upgrade was the one leading to the basement which could have been a glass door. We choose against that glass door option. I took a picture in the third bedroom which captured the look of the doors in the house.</div>
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Up next will be a look at the tile in the bathrooms and later we will be taking a look at some of the flooring. </div>
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The final post in the drywall installation series will focus on the basement. The base model of the Florence does not include a finished basement, but for our neighborhood at the time we purchased there was a great incentive discount for the finished basement as long as we use NVR Mortgage, which is Ryan Homes affiliated mortgage company. From what I have gathered in many blogs there is typically some incentive whether that be discounted finished basement in our case or in other a free finished basement or free granite counter upgrade in order to get you to use their mortgage company.</div>
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The basement there is a finished and 2 unfinished sections. The finished section is at the bottom of the stairs and covers pretty much the full length of the house underneath the living room and family room. </div>
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Finished Basement</h4>
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The stairs descend down to large open area which houses the finished section of the basement shaped like a backwards "L". The ceilings are high even where the duct work is run, no ducking required even for tall individuals. The basement has lights standard as part of the finish option, but they are light fixture and not recessed lighting which would be an upgrade option. We decided to stick with the standard fixtures, for our finished basement.</div>
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The front unfinished section can be seen in the right corner of the above picture, closed behind the wall and a door. The doorway tot he larger unfinished section at the back of the house can be seen in the picture below. On the far wall in the picture you can see two outlets, one will be for the cable and one for an electric outlet. We decided to place the TV connection there so that a TV could be seen from anywhere in the finished portion of the basement. In the model they had it on the wall with the door, that you will see would be blocked from the angle in the picture below.</div>
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In the space where I took the picture above we plan to someday setup a pool table which there is plenty of room, as the basement is quite large.</div>
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The unfinished section of the basement is divided up in two sections, the first is a small are at the front of the house in the corner under the living room. This is an area which an optional powder room can be added, we decided against this as it is a little pricey and we are already gaining an extra one and a half bathrooms over our current house. If you get the powder room, the area under the stairs has an ejection pump installed in a well. That area is closed off and accessible through a door, in our scenario there is just a closed off wall under the stairs. In the front unfinished section there is access to the sewer line and the water line intake.</div>
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The morning room addition not only comes with added floor space on the main floor but also a great bit of space added to the unfinished section at the back of the house. This is the primary storage area for the house unless you upgrade the attic into a finished attic and the added space makes for plenty of room unless you are a collector. The unfinished section of the basement is wrapped with a fire retardant material to keep any potential fire, as can be seen in both the picture above and below. The picture below shows the area added with the morning room addition. </div>
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In the back side of the unfinished basement situated under the kitchen and when applicable the morning room, is where the sump pump, hot water heater and furnace are all situated. They are in a row across the front area of the section. Just behind the hot water heater is the source of the Radon pipe we have seen in a number of pictures in past posts, which starts in the ground in the unfinished basement helping vent any radon before it builds up in the basement. The furnace looks small in size for how big the house is, but the modern devices are much more efficient and do not need an over abundance of space.</div>
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The sump pump is hooked up, you cant see it but its there in the ground, and the crew has run a power cord down form the kitchen where they have already activated the power to get it supplied with power until the final electric is powered on in the basement.</div>
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As you are probably aware by now the second floor is accessed from the family room heading back towards the front of the house. It leads to the loft and hallway which then connects on to the bedrooms in the house. We will look at these rooms now that the walls are up and get a feel for the second floor.</div>
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The loft which will serve as an office area for us, is an open space at the top of the stairs. It is a good size with plenty of room for a nice desk. Other options one might do in this area would be an exercise room or sitting area, kind of an upstairs family room. In the first look you will see the loft looking back from the top of the stairs. I am not too excited about the electric layout, and some other areas as the electricians didn't put outlets next to the data and cable connections. If you are building with Ryan and you have the chance I would ask if you can be there on the day of the wiring so that you can request this. Its not the end of the world but it would make practical sense that if someone is adding a cable or data connection that they would need power at the same spot. In the picture here the data connection is the one on the wall pictured in the left and the closest outlet is the one in the corner of the same wall.</div>
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When looking back from the corner of the loft you can see the top of the stairs and get a real understanding of how much space it is and how big the are looks due to the openness. The two windows bring light to the front of the house. You will see a round opening in the ceiling just at the top of the stairs which will be for the light at the top of the stairs, safety feature so its included in the base. Switching it to a recessed light would be an upgrade.</div>
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Immediately down the hall from the landing at the top of the stairs is bedroom 2 and then bedroom 3 separated by a linen closet. These rooms are the hardest to get a good picture of, both are square of the same dimensions, good size for children's rooms. In the model home both have a full bed in them and there is still room left over. Either room with a twin in the corner would have room for a kid to have toys as well.</div>
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The master bedroom including the bathroom covers the entire back of the house, a long rectangle with a walk in closet in one corner, and bathroom at the other. In the center of the room we added a rough in to allow us to add a ceiling fan and light to the room. The room is quite big I would highly recommend a rough in for light or fan with light or recessed lighting for the room. A combination of the two could be a possibility as well. The room definitely needs some overhead light though.</div>
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The above is a look at the room from the doorway of the master bathroom, in which you can see the optional window added to the end of the room. On the right side of the picture you will see the entrance to the walk in closet. The walk in closet is a great size in the floor plan with the loft, but seems to be a little small with the four bedroom layout as the back portion of it is used for the fourth bedroom closet. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The wall mount TV setup does not include the mounting bracket, which will be made clear by the wiring representative. You will also need to sign off that you understand the same. Additionally the extra electircal outlet needed to be ordered through the Sales Representative, so that there is power at the wall mount location. They setup the connections directly on studs as you can see from the lines of spackle on the wall in the following picture.</span></div>
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There are two full bathrooms on the second floor of the Ryan Homes Florence model, one in the hallway and one in the master bedroom. The master bathroom has a number of different optional setups, the one shown as the default is a garden tub with a small standing shower. In this arrangement there is no linen closet in the bathroom just one in the hall. In the model we choose there is a large double shower, and linen closet.</div>
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You may have noticed a very different looking drywall in the shower where the tile will reside. This is because it is cement board, and not the typical drywall. Cement board is better for holding up tile and providing a more water durable product than typical drywall or the old standard in bathrooms green board.</div>
The hallway bathroom features a tub, toilet and vanity, and is situated just outside the master bedroom. Once again you can see the cement board application below. <br />
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Just above the shower you will see a light, which in talking with Bob was an addition to the base floor plan due to customer feedback surveys, as it was noted multiple times that there was not enough light in that shower. This is one of the advantages of getting a model that has been available for sometime as you get improvements which have occurred due to consumer feedback.</div>
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The last part of the second floor closed up with drywall we will take a look at is the upstairs hallway and the stairway. In both of the subsequent pictures you will see a temporary railing around the opening of the stairs. This is in place because we choose the railing with spindles for the entire upper portion of the stairs as well as the small portion on the bottom. It all comes as a set. If you stick with the default the area you see with temporary railing would all be a wall with drywall closed in and capped off. The default setup is the hardest thing to see in a model or even on other Ryan Homes blogs. We did find two examples of it and based on that one image we decided against it, as it didn't look right for us. The following is our house in under construction and two examples of what a capped wall would like.</div>
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Back into our our house you can see where the railings will be going around the stair case. In the picture you can see the the light travels through and whole hallway from the front windows, which is the nice part of the open railings as opposed to the capped wall.</div>
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From the master bedroom walk in closet there is two access panels, one to the attic over the garage, and one to the attic over the remainder of the house. The architecture of these are not designed for storage, but rather just for access for wiring or other service activities. In order to have storage in the attic you need to upgrade and have a different architecture used to support storage. If you get the morning room addition this is most likely not necessary as the space in the basement even with the finished basement option is quite sizable, and probably easier to get to, not pull down stairs.<br />
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In the attic areas they use a different method of insulating, instead of standard roll insulation they blow in the insulation.<br />
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The last time we were through the house it was for the pre-drywall walk-through with Bob our PM, this time my wife and I went over on a weekend, which the PM does not typically work. In this case we stopped into the model home, to talk to our Sales Rep to get access into the house. It had been a while since we had been over to the model, so we ended up getting into a long talk and catching up with our Sales Rep. She confirmed the tentative closing date of June 20th, its getting closer and closer and seems to move faster each day.</div>
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The model home is also a Florence Model, so we took a few minutes, with the use of a borrowed polka dot measuring tape, and took some measurements for curtains. After a pass through of the model it was on to our future home. Upon arriving we came across the house all closed up for the first time and the driveway was installed. The driveway and garage is sized for two cars tapered as it approached the street to a single car apron. </div>
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It is tough to see entirely but there is a decline from the house to the front a slight grade of approximately three percent allowing water to run off and move as much water away from the house as possible. The trench is filled in where they buried the electric and it looks like they leveled out the rest of the yard a little, but much more work to do there towards the very end to finalize the landscaping.</div>
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Upon entering the house its a totally different feel with the drywall up no more seeing through the walls, but rather really getting to feel the end product. Once again I took whole lot of pictures, so I will be taking you through the house in a few posts, this time I will divide them up by the floor, this first post will be for the first floor, called the main floor on Ryan Homes' floor plans. In the subsequent two posts I will take a look at the second floor and finally the basement.</div>
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The first room we will look at is the living room and foyer, essentially the front entrance way to the house. On the Ryan Home floor plan this area is noted as two rooms, part of the open floor plan, but in reality it really is one room providing the gateway between the back of the house, the front door and basement access.<br />
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The first two pictures above take a look from the front corner of the living room, looking towards the back of the house. You can see the basement entrance towards the right in both pictures. One of the offers available to us was a deep discount on the finished basement as long as we used Ryan Home's mortgage company NVR. The deal was too good to pass up, so this path will be used to access that part of the house. The one thing I noticed with the drywall is applied horizontal runs rather than vertical, which comes across as a straight line through the center of the wall, looks very clean with the lines covering the screw holes.</div>
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The front door as seen above, is the standard door on the homes, at least in our development is the the three panel metal door, with the top panel being a window. In front of the door is the foyer, mentioned earlier, it the area from the wall on the right where the basement stairs.</div>
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The living view from the other angle and the nice double window, the room looks really big from this angle. </div>
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Between the front of the house and back of the house on the main floor is a small hallway containing a powder room at the end and a coat closet on the right. This is the half bathroom in the house, and only one on the main floor. This house does have one and half more than our current house so that will be a wonderful addition. The doorway is the exposed two by fours from which the door frames will ultimately sit.</div>
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Once again I was amiss in my duties to capture photos of the family room, and only grabbed on view. The picture is from the morning room looking back to the family room. The ones I missed was from the stairway into the room and from the back corner towards the hallway up to the front of the house. Since the family room, kitchen and morning room make are in a big open arrangement the picture taken from the other end of the family room really shows the kitchen.</div>
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Here is that other view which shows the corner of the family room where it meets the base of the stairway from the second floor. The window on the left is one of the two standard windows in the family room. The morning room can be seen in the far left.</div>
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Kitchen</h4>
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The kitchen is one of the most important rooms in the house for its value and it purpose. The kitchen in the Florence model is a great setup, the optional items in it allow you to set it up in many ways. The kitchen sits between family room and morning room. In the following views you can see the drywall in the kitchen as seen from both rooms.</div>
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The kitchen sink will sit along a half wall that divides the kitchen and morning room, featuring a morning bar above it. In the picture below you can see the wall that will be behind the cabinets. One thing to notice is the outlet which looks to be there by the plumbing, this must be for the garbage disposal unit. The yellow wire I assume will be for the dishwasher.</div>
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One option we chose in the kitchen is the recessed lighting which we saw before the drywall went up, we now can see it with the ceiling in. This will look really good, we chose this when we saw the default option in the catalog of kitchen options presented by Jackie our sales rep.</div>
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In the corner just off center of the above picture the angles room is the pantry, great size and sits between the counter and the refrigerator. The refrigerator will be situated in the space just to the right of the pantry door opening.</div>
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Morning Room</h4>
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The morning room was the most expensive option we added to the house but we felt it was a must have. Any opportunity to add additional square footage to the house as part of the initial build try and fit it into the budget. An addition later one will cost much more, require an architect and leave a lot more room for issues. </div>
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On top of the added space on the main floor the morning room comes with the added basement storage and the double window in the master bedroom. The best feature though is the triple window and the light it allows into the open floor space.</div>
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The laundry room bridges the kitchen and the garage, which is a nice feature over our current setup with the laundry in the basement. A small room it has a doorway on each side of the room. The door separating the garage and laundry room is a fire door, and was already hung. The door to the kitchen is a standard door, which is yet to be hung. </div>
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In the final room, if it could be called that on the main floor is the garage, Ryan finishes with drywall, the walls which share a wall with the inside of the house, the one facing the outside is only finished around the electircal box. This can be seen a little bit in the picture below on the right side you can see the exposed beams.</div>
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The garage being about two feet taller than the other rooms of the house required two full runs of sheet rock and a portion of a third which can be seen by the lines of spake separating the sheets on the wall.</div>
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On the way out the door from the pre-drywall meeting the electric company had arrived and began installing the buried line from the street up to the house. In speaking with Bob they will run both the electric line and the cable lines when they have the trench open.</div>
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The utility company utilized a backhoe to trench out from the house down to the connection. The trench was about 3 feet deep and ran up to the garage side of the house. Under normal circumstance the crew will trench out and run the line but not install the meter. In this case however they had the meter with them and were going to connect the electric service. </div>
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One of the advantages of new construction over purchasing an already completed house is the ability to see the things behind the walls and get an idea of how the wiring and plumbing snakes through the walls. This helps for future expansion or just upgrading the existing.</div>
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Immediately upon entering the house through the garage one of the first things you can see on the outer wall of the house is the electric box, still opened up but all the wiring is fed into the box. The house has 200 Amp service, but on this day it was not yet hooked up. </div>
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The service will ultimately be expandable as there a number of open slots based on the wires in versus the spots in the box. The one odd ball orange wire runs to the unfinished basement where the utilities are and will be for sump pump. It appears they used yellow wiring to the outlets and white wires to the switches and lights. I didn't check if the gauge or coating is different between the wires, I will check next time I talk to Bob. </div>
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Additionally on the electrical side there is a a number of other items you look at during the pre-drywall meeting, one of which is the lighting. The base model has limited lighting by default and much of the items are options. In our case we chose three rough ins, which are essentially just the connection for the addition of ceiling lighting or a ceiling fan, and the recess lighting package for the kitchen. </div>
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Our rough ins are located in the master bedroom, family room and morning room. Our intention is to put ceiling fans with lights in both the master bedroom and family room and a chandelier in the morning room. Above you can see the morning room rough in. The important thing to remember if you choose this is to make it abundantly clear that it needs to be centered on a flat surface of the peak. We read on another blog that there's was originally installed on the angled beam and had to complain to get it moved. In our instance this didn't happen it went in perfectly, they added a cross beam and installed it as requested.</div>
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The rough in allows you to have the electric and the support necessary for heavier items without having to roll in the cost of the device to the mortgage, for what will most likely be a basic fan or light. Since these are options you should be allowed to select there location, if your not happy with where they are placed be sure to speak up!</div>
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We felt the kitchen recess lighting package was a must as the default lighting is a long florescent light which looks like it belongs in a commercial building not a residential home. Make sure to ask to see the base lighting for the kitchen at least a picture of it before moving forward without the recessed lighting package, as it will most likely not be in the model home.</div>
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Electrical receptacles are standard in the house and based on local building codes have different requirements but as we learned the specific location is not always exactly the same. In our house the codes require a receptacle withing 60 inches of the corner of the room and no more than 12 feet from the next closest one. In other words a ample number of electrical outlets throughout the house. No if there is a specific place you want an outlet, you can try to work with the PM, but more than likely you will need to buy an additional one. Any one you buy extra should be placed precisely where you want it, and not in the run of standard outlets.</div>
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Above you can see the receptacles that will be above the kitchen counter for outlets and switches. Just in that one corner that is a lot of electric! For our house we purchased two additional outlets one that will go with the wall mount setup for our TV in the master bedroom and one on the exterior centered between the two windows, where the deck will ultimately go. The wall mount extra outlet is a must or you defeat the purpose of adding a wall mount setup as your power cord will be hanging down from the TV. </div>
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The outside outlet was placed in the wrong place, just under the corner of the window, I think the electrician was following the 60 inches from the corner rule, but this should not have applied and it should have been placed in the proper location. We let our PM and Sales Representative know and I will follow up when we hear back on whether they can move it or it will have to stay as is.</div>
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A second type of receptacle is for cable and data connection. This may vary in your area but as part of the base house price you get two phone and two cable connections, placed anywhere you want in the house. The representative from the wiring company worked with us, since we don't have a home phone and if we get one it would be a Voice over IP (VOIP) phone which would not require standard phone lines, so we were able to get 3 cable and 1 data as part of the standard package. We decided to add 2 additional cable connections and 1 additional data connection. </div>
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The other items which can be seen before the walls are closed up is the plumbing, and vent ducts. In new construction the piping for water intake is PEX a highly flexible and durable product. It is able to be easily curved and fit into application behind the walls with fewer joints that copper pipe. Copper pipe also is a target for theft due to the value it obtains as scrap. If cooper was used in the house prior to the walls being closed up it is likely it would be stolen out of the house. For drain pipes PVC is used it is more rigid and comes in a larger size which makes it good for this purpose. </div>
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In the above picture, as seen from the family room looking up, you see application of both PEX and PVC with some aluminum duct work The PEX can be seen on the right side of the picture, thin and flexible the pipes that curl up are the hot and cold water which are going to the master bathroom. Multiple PVC lines are both ventilation for the drains in the powder room on the main floor and drain lines for the master bathroom. </div>
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The following are a couple views from the upstairs hallway bathroom, on the left you will see the hot and cold water PEX lines in thin, both running for the sink which will sit directly in front of where this picture is taken, the toilet and tub which sit to the right of the view from this picture. Additionally you will see the drain pipe for the sink.</div>
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The pipe that appears to go up is in fact the drain pipe, but as mentioned earlier the way they design it is to have the drain pipe with ventilation to allow air to help push down the water as it moves through the pipe and make it easier to move the waste water away and out to the sewer line. This can also be seen in the next picture from the master bathroom.</div>
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In the laundry room they prepare the waterlines for a washer hookup. This is different than the lines to sinks as these need to be placed in a manner to cap the line and allow for hookup after the fact. The washer lines feature both the hot and cold water as well.</div>
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Behind the wall in the kitchen between where the refrigerator and the laundry room sit is the main return vent as well as the and the radon vent pipe. Its tough to notice in the picture but the radon pipe is marked here so that it is not cut into so that the ventilation for radon is maintained.</div>
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In the final look behind the walls is something I had never seen before my experience with building this house. It is a ventilation channel for the fan that goes over stove in order to ventilate out the house rather than your standard fan that just circulates it up and away but the hot air remains in the room.</div>
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This is part two of the series for the pre-drywall meeting. If you missed the first post the pre-drywall meeting is the home buyers chance to see the things behind the walls before it is closed up and have a walk through of the interior of the house where the you can ask questions to the project manager about the different elements of those behind the wall items. In the walk through my wife and I took, I took a number of pictures so I am breaking down the posts into a couple different sections. This post will take a look at the inside of the house focusing on the rooms themselves in the next post we will take a closer look and the items in the walls, like electrical and plumbing.</div>
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The front steps are not in at this point so entry into the house is always through the garage, I imagine it will be similar once everything is all said and done. Through the garage is entry passing through the laundry room and into the kitchen. From the entry into the house the first view I saw was out the back through the morning room. The lighting at the time we came over 9:30 AM was great in here, the open floor plan lets light flow throughout the house. No lights or flash required here!</div>
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As we moved in to the house I was able to get a different angle on the morning room, at the point where it intersects the kitchen. You can see the half wall which separates the two rooms and serves as the hinge point for where the gourmet island optional feature we picked will jut out into the kitchen on an angle towards where I am standing in the following picture. </div>
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In the picture above you are able to see the whole of the kitchen on the left side in front of the half wall you can see the drain pipe and water lines which is where the sink will be. in the center of the picture a grey metallic area is in front of where the stove will be located. The angled wall in the far right of the room is the pantry. This is a standard part of the Florence model floor plan but was a great feature in the house for us. Storage in and around the kitchen was always a challenge in our current house, this space will provide that easy access area, especially for some of the bulkier items, like the 12 pack of paper towels. The near right is the laundry room from which we first entered.</div>
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Here are a few additional angles of the kitchen:</div>
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Adjacent to the kitchen is the family room, which is the third room including the morning room and kitchen which make the large open floor plan on the main floor of the house. This will be the main gathering area, and is the gateway to the second floor. In the Florence model the staircase to the upper floor starts from the back of the house and goes up towards to the front. In the next picture you will get a glimpse of the family room from the third step from the bottom of the stair case.</div>
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For the room that we will spend a great deal of time in, I take very few pictures of it. Just the one from the many pictures was of it, I will have to take it from a few different angles next pass through. Off to the left of the picture above will be the first floor powder room and coat closet. These are tough places to get good pictures as they are small areas, but without walls you can see them through from the other rooms.</div>
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The picture above is of the powder room on the left and coat closet on the right as seen through the wall from the living room. This is the front room, kind of a sitting room, but from the looks of it in the following couple pictures it seems much bigger than a sitting room.</div>
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There is an option to have a window in the side wall of the house which is the one directly ahead in the above picture. We obviously decided not go with some due to cost, but I don't think its necessary as there is plenty of light from the double front window. There is a lot of extra wall space available as well.</div>
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Above is a look from the corner of the living room back towards where the previous two pictures were taken, looking at the front door straight ahead. You can see off to the left of the picture the staircase down into the basement. It will lead to the finished portion. I didn't successfully get any pictures down there a little too dark and my flash didn't go off. However down there we were able to see the sub-pump, furnace and hot water heater in the unfinished section. In the next post I will take you through some of the items we talked about down there in regards to the wiring and piping that exists in that section. On to the upstairs!</div>
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At the top of the stairs up from the family room is the loft, if your out looking and have a Florence Model as the model home in the development you will most likely not see this option as this can be a fourth bedroom. The loft is the standard option, I think its one of the best features, if you don't have an overwhelming need or plan to need a forth bedroom, stick with this floor plan and throw the budget at some other option. The loft makes the top of the stairs wide open, and it looks giant. The loft also makes the master closet larger as some of the space is used for the 4th bedroom closet. There is an optional window in this room, totally unnecessary in this selection the two front windows one directly in front of the stairs and one in the loft provide ample lighting.</div>
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The loft is in the front right of the house, at least on the standard build and not reversed floor plan. on the left side of the front of the house is the second bedroom. From the top of the stairs which faces towards the front of the house you make a right and loop back towards the back of the house. The hallway has two doors on the left one for each of the second and third bedrooms.</div>
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In the above picture since you can see through the walls all of the three front windows on the house can be seen on the right is the second bedroom. On the left you see the top of the temporary banister for the stairs and the loft off in the distance. And in the one below you can see the room itself.</div>
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In the second bedroom there is an optional window on the wall in the right of the picture. If it is in your budget this one could be a good one to get to have some extra light, but not entirely necessary. It does take a little of the wall space away, so in our case we went without the selection, should give a little more room to work with. A little further down the hall is the third bedroom, which has one window and no optional one available as it only has the one wall to the outside of the house. This room divides the house right through the middle, with the other bedroom to the front and the master bath to the back. In the below picture you can see the master bathroom and some of the plumbing for it through the wall. </div>
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Finally we have the master bedroom which takes the whole of the back of the house when you include the master bathroom. The first picture looks from the inside corner of the room on the garage side of the house looking across the master bedroom towards the bathroom. </div>
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The final look below takes the other angle of the master bedroom, in which you can see the optional window to the left. This is a must have in our opinion gives the large room so much extra light and helps as the sun moves throughout the day to get a different lighting perspective. In the front right of the picture is the entrance to the walk in closet.</div>
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The pre-drywall meeting is the home buyers chance to see the things behind the walls before it is closed up and have a walk through of the interior of the house where the you can ask questions to the project manager about the different elements of those behind the wall items. In the walk through my wife and I took, I took a number of pictures so I am breaking down the posts into a couple different sections. This first post will take a look at the progress on the outside of the house as well as some views of the yard. In a subsequent post we will take at the rooms inside and then a post taking a closer look at the items in the walls, like electrical and plumbing.</div>
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At the time the drywall is ready to go up the outside of the house itself is at a point where it is pretty much completed. There is more exterior work to go but most of those things are the items which are held to the end so that the work is not destroyed as the workers move in and out of the house. </div>
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The siding is mostly completed, and I initially thought it was left that way purposefully to allow the utilities to be added without damaging the siding, but as we talked with Bob he mentioned that the siding was not finalized because they didn't have enough to finish and would be getting more to finalize.</div>
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We braved the unfinished hill to move around to the back of the house to get a look at that angle. The basement in the back is pretty close to being fully exposed in the back. This leaves a large drop off for the sliding doors exiting off the morning room, which can be seen in the following picture. Additionally are the windows from the family room on the bottom, the master bedroom windows on top and a small square window in the master bathroom window on the upper side.</div>
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The landscaping is not done yet, but the trees are starting to grow there leaves. We purchased a premium lot, which has a large lot for the area and the back is wooded. There will need to be some clearing to make the most of the large lot but its nice and secluded feeling. Here is a look at the back yard from the ground.</div>
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Its hard to tell from the picture where the lot ends, especially since the survey stakes are not in, but it is 75 feet back from the corner of the morning room and closer to 90 feet back from the other corner of the house. We have 25 feet of space on the left side of the house and 18 on the right. This is a crazy compared to our current house as it feels like you can reach out the window and touch the neighbors.</div>
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The next view is from the master bedroom back windows, looking down on the yard. Its tough to tell in the picture but its almost three stories up due to the high foundation in the back. On the right side you can see the morning room roof. You can't see in those morning room gutters there is already build up from the trees, gutter guards are going to be a must for us, especially before fall comes and the trees all shed the leaves.</div>
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My wife and I were away on vacation which is why there was a small hiatus in my postings. Our Sales Representative, Jackie, was nice enough to offer to take a few pictures of the progress while we were away. The nice part of this is she was able to capture pictures while the work was happening since she is in the area during the day, while the work is going on.</div>
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Right before we left the house was just about getting ready to be sided. We selected Irish Thistle siding, with Berry shutters and a Black Fox door. The Irish Thistle siding is a greenish grey color, depending on the light it will show more green than gray, in the pictures here its shows more on the gray side. The door color we picked was Black Fox as mentioned above but in the pictures the door is white. This is quite normal as all doors are delivered white and painted the selected color once installed. The first picture Jackie took for us, is looking at the front of the house as the siding contractors are working.</div>
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As you can see they work with scaffolding around the side of the house without the garage roof. The scaffolding is attached to the roof and braced on metal polls. The next picture Jackie sent is a view from the other side of the house giving a look of the side wall and front of the house.</div>
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If you look closely at the above two pictures you can see the trees have begun to sprout leaves, the back yard is mostly wooded and gives a nice back drop for house. A few days after Jackie had sent over the first set of exterior photos she sent a few additional ones. On the day of the second batch of pictures it was the day they were delivering the sheet rock for the house. The sheet rock comes in large sheets looks like 12 foot by 4 foot sections, and bundled in 10 sheet sets. These must weigh a ton so the delivery is assisted by a truck with built in crane. In the first picture you will see the truck situated on the street approximately 25 feet from the front of the house. </div>
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In the second picture you can see the shutters have been added and some borders around the front door and on top of the downstairs windows. It was great of Jackie to take some pictures for my Wife and I, while we were away. There was a bunch of progress which we would have missed out on had we not had these pictures. Today was the pre-drywall walk through which I will be posting tomorrow. Lots of pictures with that one!</div>
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Yesterday we explored the inside of the first floor, but left out the trip down stairs and upstairs for sake of not running one post on too long. So here is the first look at the inside of the basement and first floors. </div>
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As one might expect the basement was quite dark, there is very limited windows in the design, just a small one, maybe one foot by three foot in size, that is situated at the back of the foundation wall just below the morning room. I wish there was a few windows along the left side of the house to bring some natural light into the finished basement side, but that was not to be. We never asked about adding some since we were already budget maxed with the other upgrades, but if your building a Florence it might not be a bad thing to ask about.</div>
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The frame for the finished basement walls are already up, and the drain plumbing was in but little else. The hot water heater had been delivered and sat in a dark corner of the basement. I tried to get my camera to take some pictures but couldn't pull enough light for it to work. Bob was able to help out by using a flashlight app on his cell phone in order for me to catch just a couple. The first is the area is where the hot water heater, furnace and sump pump will ultimate reside. Sorry for the blurriness not my finest work!</div>
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The second picture is taken from the base of the stairs looking into the finished portion of the basement facing the front of the house. You can see the wall for where the storage closet in the front of the basement will reside. additionally you can see the reddish color in the upper right portion of the picture this is a steel beam support running across the house surrounded by wood so that the walls can be finished.</div>
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After checking out the basement we headed back up to the first floor and around to the back of the house into the family room. From there we went up the stair case to the second floor. At the top of the stairs off the the left, front right of the house when looking from outside, just above the garage is the loft area. The model home has the fourth bedroom option so this area is all walled off in it, so we never saw exactly what it looks like, still can't fully see it but it looks giant in the pre-drywall state.</div>
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The area in back left of the picture will be the walk-in closet for the master bedroom. I spun to the left taking another picture from the same location, but you can see through to the back of the house, it gives you a good look at the full size of the house before the walls are up. Additionally you can see the tub has already been placed for the hallway bathroom and a good look at just how big the walk-in closet will be. It is bigger in the layout with the loft over the four bedroom version, as they take away a portion of it for the closet in the fourth bedroom. I think especially for us the loft was by and far the way to go!</div>
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We moved around the stairs and down the hall towards the master bedroom situated at the back of the house and looking to the right we get another angle on the hallway bathroom. Looking in from the door, rather than through walls. You can see the tub and location of the drain for the toilet.</div>
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After looking in on the bathroom, I took the first look at the master bedroom. Taking a look to the right from the doorway we can see the main area of the bedroom and the corner window. The corner window is one of the optional windows we chose, and I am happy we did it will bring much more light into the room. Off to the right is the entrance to the walk-in closet we saw through the wall from the loft picture.</div>
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A look into that closet, wow that is big, much larger than the closet in our current house, they didn't use up much space for closets in older homes, but they sure do now. Looks to be a return vent in the upper right of the picture.</div>
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Next we took a look at the master bathroom, we chose the large shower stall and linen closet option. The garden tube seemed unrealistic for us, as we imagined how little we would use it. In speaking with Bob he mentioned that from what he has been seeing in Florence models this setup has become more of the normal scenario but with Milan models the garden tub still holds the lead. It will be nice to have the linen closet in the bathroom itself, in our current home its in the hall, and it can be annoying. This would be especially more annoying in this scenario as the other linen closet is in the hall between the first and second bedroom which would require you t go out down the hall to grab a towel. You can see in the following picture the shower basin and closet.</div>
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The window for the bathroom will be on the wall just off to the left of this picture, and i am standing where the sink will be. The final look is down the stairs from the landing outside the loft looking into the family room. I missed taking pictures of the second and third bedrooms, I will get them next time.</div>
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Yesterday I called to setup a visit out to the house where I would be able to get on the inside and have a look around form the other view. Bob was happy to oblige and even was open to meeting me before work, which would mean being on site at 6:30 AM. I had to wake up a little early in order to make the trip out, but the travel was against rush hour traffic so it wasn't difficult to make it to the house by 6:30. As I pulled up the block, Bob's truck was parked out front. I recognized it from the last time I saw it at the pre-construction meeting. I pulled past where he was parked and to the other side of where the driveway will ultimately reside. I could see that the roofers had completed the shingles across the entire roof, which they completed on Monday. The roof completion could not have come soon enough as there is a forecast of three straight days of rain starting today and lasting until Thursday. I exited my car to take a look at work on the roof completed yesterday.</div>
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Through the laundry we entered into the kitchen, there is a small wall separating it from the morning room, but other than that the whole back half of the house is open wide. The wall will be where the breakfast bar will reside just above the sink. In the picture below, just in front of the wall you can see the white pipe coming up which will be the drain line for the sink.</div>
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The morning room can be seen in the back of the picture above featuring the three windows, from which a great deal of light is able to enter. The view out the morning room windows will be to a nice wooded back yard, even though I still retain the hope they will clear away at least the ground brush. We moved from the kitchen area into the family room and looked back into the kitchen which can be seen in the picture below.</div>
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As we moved past the family room, for which I missed getting a picture of, i looked through the wall which will be at the base of the stairs separating the family room from the laundry room, which they had put in the washer hookup. Additionally you can see the drain line from the washer and the upstairs hallway bathroom. The door in the background is the fire door between the laundry room and garage. In the bottom left of the following picture you can see the base of the stairs leading to the second floor.</div>
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Bob explained to me the additional pipe of slightly smaller gauge in the drain lines, being a vent to allow air to help push the water down and ensure better flow out to the sewer. I am not sure if this is something new in design of drainage, but anything to help make the drains work well is a much welcomed addition. We moved on from that area down the hall checked out the powder room and then onto the living room.</div>
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In the above picture you can see the double windows in the front of the house and the front door off to the left. This will be the living room of the house, and the toughest to figure how to fill the space, except maybe during Christmas where the double window would be nice for a big Christmas tree, taking advantage of the tall ceilings. My wife and I have discussed setting this room up as a sitting area, similar to what is found on Ryan Homes website and what we saw in the model home.</div>
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Yesterday was the second day of work by the framers, and they had completed almost all of their work the prior day, so I expected them to be able to complete it all. I received a call from Bob in the morning, we usually talk later in the day, but this was perfect I had some time and was able to ask a few questions. He first let me know that the framers would complete their work that day, as I had expected would be the case. I was curious whether or not the framers would start the roof, or if the roofers would come to put the base wood on for the roof. It was the framers, Bob let me know the roofers do the sheets on top of the wood and the shingles on top of that. He did let me know that the roofers would most likely be dropping off the supplies before the end of the day.</div>
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As you have seen by the pictures the back of the house features a large number of trees, I asked if there would be some more clearing behind the house. Bob said what is cleared is what will be cleared. This is one thing that is a little puzzling to me as it looks like the house next door was cleared at least an extra 25 feet back from where ours is cleared. I think this one will require some follow up, other wise the back yard will be all ground brush. I am not looking for tons of trees to be knocked down, but I think the ground should be cleared some as they are supposed to plant seed in the back yard as part of the contract. That will not be possible over the top of what looks like dead brush and years of leaves.</div>
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I was excited to go see how far the crew made. I knew my wife would be out of work early enough to go over before the sun set so I figured it would be best to get some other stuff done first and we could go over together. We headed over to the house slightly after my wife had arrived home. As we pulled up the block there was people working on the house next door. The van out front had a painting company's information so it seems they are getting really close to being done. </div>
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As you can see above the house was really far along, not only was the framing done, but the windows and front door were in as well. Pretty crazy how fast its all coming together. Here is a look from the front.</div>
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Looking over the pictures I came up with some new questions in regards to hose bibs, since there will be two I was hoping one to be closer to the front and one to be closer to the back, but I am not sure if that is possible with the slope being as it is unless it would come out of the foundation and not the wooded portion of the house. I will let you know what the options are after talking to Bob on Monday.</div>
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Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-53564209208194395052014-04-24T19:10:00.003-07:002014-04-26T17:36:09.195-07:00One Day's Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
On my visit yesterday, no work had progressed, at least no visible work. My guess was the inspection of the foundation and slabs had not been completed, so they were not able to take the next step. I got out of work at the normal time during rush hour, all previous trips during this time of day had some but never heavy traffic. Today was different about half way to the new house the traffic ground to almost a complete stop. I I slowly crawled along, I considered ditching out for the night and just heading home. I didn't end up doing that, and continued to press on. The traffic cleared up, turns out there was a road closed for some type of construction and the a little further along an accident. Once I was passed both of those areas the ride was smooth with the same traffic I had seen previous nights.</div>
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I pulled up the block and much to my amazement the house had taken shape, in one days time they had the entire first and second floors framed. This is the advantage of having the frame built offsite and shipped in! If you remember the large pile of wood out front of the property. The pile is gone and a house now stands in its place.</div>
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The longer day has let them work a little later into the night, and it looked like they were working hard to get all the roof trusts in before calling it a day. They were working in a four man team, two in the rafters and two on the ground. One guy was working on walling off the end pieces of the roof, and the other guy was operating a large forklift. The man working the forklift steered the completed piece up from the ground to the rafters where the two men working up there moved in to position in precisely on the corner.</div>
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Once they had nailed the piece in to the house frame, the forklift operator slowly backed away reducing pressure on the orange straps which connected the piece to the forklift. He retracted the fork and drove forward to the front of the house where he got out and started to assist the other man working on the ground finish framing the same piece for the other side of the house.</div>
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I didn't want to wear out my welcome as I know they were trying to finish up for the night, but my guess is they were going to repeat the actions from the right side on the left side and get that piece up to the house before calling it quits for the night. As I pulled away I came to grips that this is moving so fast now, and it is not going to be long before we are finalizing everything and going to closing. Well not tomorrow but soon, tommorow I think they will be putting the roof in over the garage.</div>
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This week started out with some small progress. Yesterday, after my wife and I got off of work for the evening we made a trip out to the house site. I was expecting the slabs to be in but it had not completed. The one good thing about that was we were able to see the metal rebar that will reinforce the garage floor. You can see here the grid of metal which will aligns the entire floor where the garage slab will be poured.</div>
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Today I made the journey out to the new house alone, to see if the slabs had been poured. Upon arriving at the house I could see the garage had been poured. It has a slight pitch from the back of the garage to the front where the door will be. They must have been in and out with the cement trucks or the backhoe as the ground in front is quite disturbed from the smooth look it had just yesterday.</div>
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As long as the inspection occurred for the slabs and the weather holds out I am pretty sure they will be getting started framing tomorrow. I am not sure if you can see it but if you look close the base wood has been attached onto the foundation, connected by metal strips which were inserted into the concrete walls before they settled. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">It really seems to be picking up and I have a feeling the outside of the house will be done in the next week or two.</span></div>
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Ryan Home Buyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09283957421876985654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454494469146425431.post-38085013125465191122014-04-18T16:07:00.000-07:002014-04-18T16:48:01.605-07:00Lot taking Shape<div>
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This Tuesday was a day full of rain, I didn't travel out to the site at all as I figured there would not be any progress since we are still on all outdoor work. This was the day for the foundation and waterproofing inspection, but we lost the first day of the build. Not to worry much we are still tracking ahead of schedule overall so the one day will not significantly alter the final delivery. </div>
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I took a stop by after work on Wednesday, there was no noticeable progress on the site, but I could see there was an updated inspection sticker on the site sign. It seems the inspection happened on Wednesday and it was approved. This meant the backfill would be Yesterday. </div>
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Thursday happened much like Wedensday, a day of work a early evening visit to the site. This time it was clear they had backfilled the lot. The dirt was filled in along the angle of the waterproofing on the left side and along a small blue line chalked from the end of the waterproofing along the garage on the right.</div>
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The pile of dirt which had adorned the front of the lot since the foundation hole was dug out has been leveled out and pushed in around the foundation. Large stones lay where the driveway will ultimately be poured.</div>
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Its all shaping up moving along at a rapid pace. Today I received the weekly scheduled call from Bob. I wasn't able to answer but in his message he let me know that Monday the slabs for the basement and garage would be poured, and possibly inspected. He also said framing could start as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. That is crazy, I had the idea the the foundation needed to sit for 2 weeks prior to framing, but I guess not. I will have to follow up with him on Monday!</div>
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