Multi-Inspections on Friday

Two big inspections on Friday. First was the "Energy Star" house efficiency inspection. Valerie from Green Power Living brought her gear to perform a 'blow' certification of the house. A passing grade means that our house does meet Energy Star standards for efficiency. Second 'really' big inspection was performed by Gordon, it was the occupational permit cert inspection. Passing this inspection means we can move furniture into the house. As you can tell by the smiles on Valerie & Gordon's faces, we passed both inspections !!!! Yippee ! :)

Stair rails

Rick Blair & Ricky Phillips, master carpenters, finished the stairway rails. One of the last major 'inside jobs' now complete !

Green Grass of Home

Middleton Farms of Waldorf Md, delivered turf last Thursday. What a difference it is to finally have green grass instead of brown dirt :)

Friday is clean-up

Friday is clean-up day. Celine was cleaning up the 'entire' house. Herman was doing touch-up paint, and Scott & Mike from L&E Floors were installing the floating cork floor.

Permit Day !!!

We 'ARE ' celebrating today because we got our occupancy permit!

We've moved a few pieces of furniture into house & will continue over the weekend and holiday.

More pictures coming soon ....

Kitchen backsplash

Ricky Phillips has spent last two days setting the tiles for kitchen backsplash, and today George finished the job with final grout. Before & after pix show the final product, Nice !

Vinyl Siding starts

Here's a few shots of siding team at work. Guys were having a good time, singing to the radio & hooting it up all day long. They'll return tomorrow am for more good times.

Happy Veteran's Day

A gorgeous day in Tall Timbers, on which to thank the active & retired members of the US Armed Forces. Thank you for your service, and as the Navy hymn says, may God bless those in peril on the sea.

Awoke today to the sounds of 10-man vinyl siding install team. Woo-hoo, finally :)

Vinyl siding is a grey-ish blue color called "Driftwood" & looks great with blue roof & white trim..

Concrete part 2

Team poured the 20 x 20ft concrete pad in front of garage.

Concrete part 1

John, Ricky & George got an early start today, finishing the walkway to front door & garage.

HVAC on

T.N Bowes team returned today to connect the HVAC system. Filled poly pipes with Propylyene/Glycol, and ' T.W.' made compressor connections in the crawl space. House is now warming up from the frosty morning temps.

More concrete walkway prep

John finished the concrete prep work today by filling in dirt next to the frames. Mixers will bring the concrete tomorrow to pour driveway pad and walkway to front door.

Plumbing on Saturday

Gary & Doug, owners of 'Dave's Plumbing' were at the house today to begin installation of plumbing fixtures. They got all kitchen and bathroom faucets installed. Pix show Gary working on the powder room podium sink. Guys will return on Tuesday to finish the job.

Vinyl floors

Mike Sager from 'L&E' floors was at the new pad on Friday, installing vinyl floors in the bathrooms & laundry room. Floors look great, and they'll return later next week with carpet !

Richard's bricks

Richard White has been working on the brick porch for last few days & is almost done. Steve & I 'thought' we could do the job, but found ourselves to lack the proper mortar skills. Thanks Richard !

more granite pix

'Yellow River' granite arriving to new home in the kitchen.

Granite Tuesday !

Team from 'Solid Rock' arrived today with a truck full of beautiful counter-top stone for the new house. Seth, Matt & John brought us; 'Yellow River' granite for kitchen and dining room, 'Ubatuba' granite for den (matches the fireplace) , and some Carrera marble for the master bath. The Solid Rock guys wasted no time in hand-carrying the stone into the house, glueing/acrylic bonding the stone into place, leveling and chaulking with silicone sealant. Took them only ~4 hours to complete the job. Once the Solid Rock guys left, John's crew (Ricky, Billy & Ricky) installed the ovens into wall cabinet in the kitchen. We just need power, gas and water before 'soup's on' !

Columbus Day brick work

No rest on Columbus Day Monday. Plans for a day of relaxing & boating were deferred so we could make better use of our vacation time by working instead. John gave me & Steve a lesson in concrete mixing, chopping & paver-laying. We finished 80% of the entry door-stop area, which is just a warm-up for the riverfront facing porch. We'll start the porch (assuming good weather) on Friday. Making a run to CVS to stock up on Advil before then.

Appliances

Appliances from Lowes delivered today, D/W, Oven & Fridge. And Seth from 'Solid Rock' visited to take measurements for granite counter installation. Granite should be delivered next week. Steve is wrapping up the wood floor installation in the den. A few more days and the wood floor will be complete.