Weeks 10, 11, 12 - A lot of finishing work and wrong carpet installed in half of the house....HOW???

So sorry for slacking on the blog!!!  Christmas was a busy busy time! So here are the updates for the last 3 weeks:
Week 10 - December 12 - December 16
Week 11 - December 19- December 23
Week 12 - December 26- December 30

The blogs will be slower now as not as much is being changed on a daily basis.  Just little things.  Since they are starting to install the pricier items, they are also locking the house at night. BOOO!  We need to make appointments to see the place now if we can't go in the middle of the day when workers are around.  Frustrating.

Before I get into the updates, I know you like the drama so I will give you that first. From a blog way back, I wrote about our carpet selections.  The carpet in our package was white.  We are too messy for that and needed a carpet with some color.  We upgraded and paid for all new carpet.  For some reason this was missed on our Master Selection Sheets.  We did find the error and they hand wrote in the correct carpet color, but of course they installed wrong carpet in half of our house.  They installed the correct carpet on the 1st and 2nd levels and the incorrect carpet in the basement.  The carpet was installed on December 21st and was fixed by the new year.  What a costly mistake!!

 I know this picture is hard to see because the CORRECT carpet in the family room is all covered up.

This is the carpet close up.

 White carpet going down to the basement.

December 12th -

 Sidewalk finally poured, now I just want a driveway. Sick of this muddy mess!!

 Our porch was also poured!!!  I love it!

December 14th - 

 

Master bath -  Tub, floor, and shower being tiled!

 Guest bath in progress as well!

Granite in the kitchen was installed

December 15th - 

Finished guest bath

 Finished tub!

 Finished shower, just need the surround!

December 16th - BUSY DAY!!!!!!

 Kitchen floors installed!

 Dining room floors also installed.

 Wooohooo!  We have a deck!!!!

 We have electric as well!!!!!!  Basement lights on!

 Master bath vanity and lights

 James taking a shower under our fancy new shower light

 All of these recessed lights, in love!

Back view of the deck

December 21st

 Front house view, columns installed

 Close up of the columns.  Can't wait to decorate these babies for x-mas next year!

 Finished Deck

 Other side of the deck, looking at the door

 

 Stairwell light, me likey!

Hardware installed in guest bath.

 Aaaaaahhhhhhh!  Thank you Jesus!  My closet is AMAZING!!!

 Insulation added in the unfinished part of the basement.

 Pantry closet hardware installed

 Address sign!

December 27th-

Shower surround installed

December 30th-

DRIVEWAY!!!!! FINALLY!

Week 9 - More Piss, More Problems, Less Neighbors

Here was week eight schedule the builder gave us:

12/5 - Monday -Nothing Scheduled
12/6 - Tuesday - Garage Door, Siding, HVAC outside unit
12/7 - Wednesday -Siding
12/8 - Thursday -First paint/prime, Attic insulation
12/9 - Friday -Trim, Install cabinets, Fireplace surround, apron(driveway prep), deck, install mirrors

Here was the actual schedule:

12/5 - Monday - Nothing Scheduled
12/6 - Tuesday -Pouring rain all day, nothing was done
12/7 - Wednesday - First paint/prime, HVAC outside unit
12/8 - Thursday -Trim, Install cabinets,
11/9 - Friday - Fireplace surround started, install mirrors, siding
12/10 - Saturday - Finish Fireplace surround and siding

Still waiting for: Garage Door, apron(driveway prep), deck,

Before I get into this weeks updates, let us talk about all of the issues we had this week.  I swear this is a bad dream?  Really, how is this sill happening?

On Wednesday, my neighbor found more urine in his basement.  This is three days after he made them chip out and relay the concrete in his basement from the last urine.  At this point he checked our house and we were good.  My neighbor contacted our contractor's boss and they denied that it was urine after checking it out the next morning. 

On Thursday we went to the house after work and I was sure to check out my basement and just guess what we found.....

 Look at the waist height streams on the wall, and YES we did get evidence.

I called the contractor because I wanted him to come over to the house at that moment and of course he did not answer.  I went down to the sales office, because I was not waiting till the following morning when it was going to be dry.  The sales rep called management immediately and they had me send them the pictures.  About 30 minutes later I did receive a call from the contractor who was highly apologetic and embarrassed that this keeps happening.  He did say he was going to talk to his boss in the morning and this will be dealt with.  In my case, he was not trying to tell me this was not urine.  I got a call the following morning advising the concrete in my house would also be chipped out and replaced.  I advised that was not necessary and that a good cleaning would suffice.  

Then on Friday we went over after work only to find more issues....

 

This is our neighbors house, but as you can see some type of equipment crashed into the siding and eff'ed up the new siding....

When we were leaving, I happened to notice that the garage door was being installed on my neighbor's house.  This might not look terrible to most people, but with all of our issues I noticed immediately that it was not the correct garage door.  The neighbor's house has all WHITE trim and the beige door was installed.  Our house is the one with the beige trim and that was our door.  The contractor was there and I did point this out to him.

As for my neighbor he was really not happy with the response to his urine issues and wanted the same mitigation (chip away and relay the concrete) on his new areas.  He ultimately decided he was done and not dealing with their BS anymore.  After the further issues that happened with the garage door and his siding on Friday, I was in the market for a new Neighbor.  I am sad.  I am mad.  I really liked this guy and I think he would have been a great neighbor.  He really watched out for us and helped us with a lot so far.  I just hope we get another great replacement and I hope that him and his family find a nice place after all of these issues. :(  Boo!  


Wednesday 12/7 - 

 Kitchen primed

 Family room primed

 Master bedroom primed

 Outside HVAC unit

Thursday 12/8- We only took the following to picks until the pee fiasco started.

 Kitchen cabinets installed

 

 Trim Installed

Friday 12/9 -

 Workers starting the fireplace surround.

 Banisters installed and stained

 

Second bathroom cabinets and mirror

 Master bath mirror and cabinets

 Workers finishing up the siding

Saturday 12/10 -

 Fireplace done, I am in LOVE

 Siding finished!!!