Again, it has been a while since the last post – in addition to work on the house, Jyll and I were married in October.
As for the house, a lot has taken place… the electrical finish was complete (it is nice not to need extension cords to do everything), plumbing is complete (the port-a-pot went bye-bye and one porcelain pot was installed in the house), the underside of the back porch was completed, enough trim was added to get ready for the carpet installation, railing were installed and many other odds and ends.
On Friday we had the county final inspection – there are 3 minor items that need to be remedied before we can move in!
- Add a light fixture to illuminate the basement stairs and move the switch to the very bottom of the stairs
- Add porch railing on the deck off of the laundry room- because the ground settled, it is 31″ from the deck to grade and code requires a railing if it is greater then 30″. The railing at the master bedroom needed to be extended 2 feet so that no one would come around and take the 10 foot step down.
- Shorten the length of the overflow on one of the hot water heater.
The fixes are:
- Add a fixture and move the switch
- Add railing and steps across both the deck and the covered porch – DONE!
- Cut the tube – DONE!
I will add the light fixture this week and get everything wrapped up so that we can start moving in! We had not decided on what railing to add and had planned on waiting until spring to make some decisions, but it was easier to get it done.
More recent projects have included painting the top edge of the stair well (this was a feat after erecting a temporary wall on the stairs to support a walk plank), tiled the master bath and the full bath on the first floor, carpeted the two bonus rooms using 2 X 2 carpet tiles, putting polyurethane on all the doors and frames and a bunch of odds and ends.
It has been nice to complete some projects that have a large visual impact. More pictures to follow.
Up next: carpet in the bedrooms gets installed on Friday, the laminate floor is in the house and ready to be installed, tile the 2nd floor bath, grout all of the tiled areas, install door and window casings, install the closet bars/shelves (wire), the last garage door openers.