What The FUCK! Yes, this title is necessary!

What The FUCK!  Seriously these are the only words I have for Ryan Homes this week.

Last Tuesday, 11/1, we went out to the house to see the progress and we ran into the neighbor.  He pointed out that they were using the lumber that was labeled 272 (his lot) on our house.  It was strange, but I didn't think twice about it.  On Wednesday, 11/2, I had a hair appointment so we did not make it out to the site.  The neighbor sent me a picture of the days progress.  I was super surprised to see a second story.  When I came home from my appointment, I was sending the picture to my girlfriends when I realized, that is NOT my house plan!!!!!  Yeah, that lumber mix up is a HUGE deal!

This was the picture that the neighbor sent me and below is a picture of what the front of my house should look like.  We are supposed to have 6 windows across the front of the house that are all the same size, instead we have 5 windows with one square window.  Also the bottom windows are supposed to be separated versus being close together.

 

I e-mailed the contractor right away to let him know about this error.  He advised that his framers contacted him earlier in the night and let him know about the error that it would be fixed on Thursday.  When I stopped by the next day, the 2nd floor was being fixed, but the 1st floor was not touched.

James went by the house after work on Thursday and after work on Friday.  The 1st floor was still the same and he found ANOTHER issue.  If you remember one of my previous posts, we were framing out a wall in the basement for James' Office (adding wall and door/see red below).

The below is a picture of James' Office.  It is hard to tell in this picture, but the wall is supposed to be across the basement at the closest 2x4 on the left side.  Instead they farmed out and roughed in a bathroom.  WHAT?  WHY?  We didn't pay for this?  So odd?

James e-mailed the contractor on Friday night and let him know the windows were still not fixed and also of the error in the basement.  He assured us everything would be fixed, but offered to meet us Monday morning to go over it all in person.  We met with him on Monday, 11/7, and he advised the windows will be field framed this week to make the fix and also the bathroom will be fixed as well.  We walked the entire house with him and asked him a ton of questions.  He was actually really great and gave us some faith that it will be corrected accurately. 

The last error that the contractor pointed out to us was that they used our neighbors lumber on the right side of the house as well.  It is hard to see in the picture, but our house is the 2nd house in.  See the window on the 2nd story on the side of the house? Yeah, not supposed to be there.  The contractor advised we had two options, we can keep the extra window for free or he can frame it up for free as well.  The room already has 3 big windows and this 4th window would make furniture placement complicated.  Now the neighbor has to deal with getting his extra window framed out as he is supposed to have one.

Hopefully the process will be smoother from here on out.  I just know I need to watch EVERYTHING!!!!!  But seriously, WHAT THE FUCK!

Week 4 Construction, What a hot mess!

This was a CRAZY CRAZY week and a TON of work happened! Like I stated in the title of this blog, it was also a hot mess!  I am not going to get into errors that were made with this blog post, I am going to make a special post for all of the errors this week.  I am telling you, just wait!

This blog is going to have a lot of pictures!  Can't believe this all happened in one week.

Here was week four schedule the builder gave us:

10/31 - Monday - Slab Prep - We did not go out to the house, Trick or Treat!  I am not sure how many Trick or Treaters we will get at the new house?
11/1 - Tuesday - Electrical Trench, Inspect, insulate, pour slabs for garage and basement, steel delivery
11/2 - Wednesday - Pour slabs for garage and basement - I was getting my hair done tonight, so we did not visit the house. Our neighbor did send us some updates though
11/3 - Thursday - Framing
11/4 - Friday - Framing

Here was the actual schedule:

10/31 - Monday - Slab Prep
11/1 - Tuesday - Electrical Trench, Inspect, insulate, pour slabs for garage and basement, steel delivery - Framing Started, we were not expecting that!!!
11/2 - Wednesday - Pour slabs for garage and basement - Slabs were poured and 2nd floor was framed
11/3 - Thursday - Framing
11/4 - Friday - Framing



11/1 - Tuesday - We went out to the site and were SHOCKED with the progress! The first two pictures are actually our neighbor's house, since we didn't get out on Monday. Moisture barriers and such for the concrete slabs.

 

Garage Floor Prep

Basement Floor Prep

 That's a lot of lumber!!!

 Surprise framing!!

 1st floor is going up quickly!

 Only need the front of the house!

11/2 - Wednesday -Pictures sent to me from our new neighbor!

Basement slab poured

 Second floor framed, garage slab poured

 Second floor framed

11/3 - Thursday -I had a half day today, so I went by and took a few pics around noon.  It was raining, so I didn't get out of the car.

The only thing different, is the entire front of the house!  Again, I will get into this on the next blog post!

11/4 - Friday - James went out after work and took a few shots, we have a roof!

 Almost a full roof, little hole up there ha!

Back of the house with the roof on

Starting the roof of the porch

11/6 - Sunday - I went to the house on my way home from the beach.  Framers were working on the neighbors house.  I decided to be a little rebellious and VERY carefully take a look around inside.  I explored all three floors.  They must have worked very late on Friday or worked Saturday.

 Front of the house with roof on front porch

Family room

 Kitchen

Morning room/dining room.  Seriously though, look at that view.

 Master bedroom

 Maze of upstairs framing

 Outside side view

  Outside back view

 Basement

 Basement bath rough-in that is not supposed to be there, again next blog

 View from the back of our house from the development behind ours

 Zoomed in!

I wonder if next week will be this exciting?

Week 3 Construction

Here was the week three schedule the builder gave us:

GUESS WHAT?  Everything happened as it was supposed to :)


10/24 - Monday - No work scheduled today
10/25 - Tuesday -  Start Plumbing ground works, install draintile and waterproof foundation
10/26 - Wednesday - Continue Plumbing ground works, public water
10/27 - Thursday -  Inspect Plumbing ground works/water/sewer, Inspect foundation, backfill
10/28 - Friday - Backfull, rough grade
  
We went out to the house on Wednesday and Friday.

Wednesday 10/26:

 The right side of our house with the waterproofing and drainage.

 Basement plumbing

  Basement plumbing

  The right side of our house with the waterproofing and drainage.

 Below garage waterproofing

Friday 10/28:  We met our neighbor to the right today!  Both sets of neighbors seem really nice!

 Backfill in the garage and front porch.  Look at the picture right above this, seems like such a waste to dig out the space under the garage only to fill it back in.

 James next to the left side of the house with the rough grade dirt. Our view is pretty nice, I must say!

 

 Right side of the house with the rough grade.  We have more space between houses then I thought we would.

Week 2 Construction, We have a foundation!

We had a few setbacks this week, hopefully we can get back on track!!

Here was week two schedule the builder gave us:

10/17 - Monday - Form foundation walls

10/18 - Tuesday - Pour Foundation Walls

10/19 - Wednesday - Strip Foundation Walls

10/20 - Thursday - Start Plumbing ground works, install draintile and waterproof foundation

10/21 - Friday - Backfill county inspection

Here was the actual schedule:

10/17 - Monday - Inspect and pour footers - We did not go to the house on Monday, but we went to Tuesday and the footers were poured!!!

10/20 - Thursday - We went out to the house and nothing was done since Tuesday.  I e-mailed the contractor and he advised that the foundation contractor ran into significant delays and was running behind.  He hoped that the foundation would be poured over the weekend.
10/22 - Saturday - Form foundation walls and Pour Foundation Walls

Still a few days behind schedule for the week!

Below are the pictures taken on Tuesday 10/18.  When we drove up to the house, some guy was looking at our lot. Awkward haha!  It turned out to be our new neighbor and he was comparing out different footers. The only difference is we have footers for a full front porch.

Garage is on the left, front porch on the right

James and I were in PA this weekend, but went to the site on Sunday the 23rd.  Looks like the contractor was working over the weekend.  We have a foundation!!

Front of the house looking at the front porch, basement

Front of the house looking at the garage, basement

Right side of the house, waiting for backfill

The pictures make it look small, but it looks pretty big when James is in the picture.  He is standing in our walkout basement door.

This is hard to see, but can you see James' Head? I told him to do a pull up and pop his head over!

Inside of the basement

Full foundation view

Week 1 Construction

So...remember my last blog when I wrote about the builder advising the schedule is set in stone barring any any great weather events?  Well, we now know that might not be the case.  We are not in any rush to move in the middle of winter and the builder knows that, why would he not be real with us when it comes to delays?  We don't care if a delay comes up, but tell us that!!!  We don't want to waste anymore time driving over to the house to see no progress.

Here was week one schedule the builder gave us:

10/12 - Wednesday - Dig foundation - We went to the house after work, nothing was done!!!!

10/14 - Friday - Form and pour footers - We did not go to the house after work, because we went to a wedding.  We only went out Sunday and the footers were formed, but not poured.

Here was the actual schedule:

10/13 - Thursday - Dig foundation

10/14 - Friday - Form footers

Below are pictures of the ground breaking, taken on 10/13.

Front of the house, looking at the backyard

Backyard, looking towards the front of the house

James breaking ground, ha

Holly breaking ground, ha

Made James climb up on the equipment

Below are pictures of the footers being formed, taken on 10/16.