Update 8/5

Updated Construction Progress tab with pictures (scroll to bottom for recent images)

A lot of workers at the house today!

Our cabinet is finally in place in the bonus bath (still needs the vanity & hardware). 

They replaced the broken cabinet door in the kitchen.

They installed some of the can lights in the kitchen.

They installed 6 of the fans (one is wrong - they installed a "Joy" where it was supposed to be a Kensington in the Living Room).

They put up the glass surrounds in the Master Bath shower and the Bonus Bath shower as well as all of the towel bars and tp holders They also installed the faucets and toilets.

They installed the wire shelving in all of the closets and the kitchen pantry.

They installed the dishwasher and the kitchen faucet.

They started to frame up the deck.

They started to do the exterior trim and boy does it make a HUGE difference on how much we like he house.

Still lots to do but it was really nice to see them taking advantage of the dry weather and getting some things done.

Update 8/1

They came and delivered our dishwasher and microwave!

The fireplace brick is now fixed.

Guardian came back out to put the wall plates on all of our selections.

They patched the drywall where the wrong columns were - still waiting on the columns to be installed. We found out they didn't frame the entry to accommodate the columns - they have to go back and cut out about 15 in from the headers going into the Dining Room and the Living Room to accommodate.

They received the second set of interior doors to replace the ones that got water damaged in the garage - waiting for them to be put up.

Still don't have a vanity in the bonus bath, don't have granite on our butler's pantry cabinet, and lots of other little things..

Make it stopppppppp.

I am never going to do this again. I'm really hoping we can meet our closing date.

Update 7/29

We arrived today to see some dirt being moved around and a bunch of workers in the house!

They knocked down the square columns (still need to get the round columns in place)

They had tile floors down in all the bathrooms (except the grout) and they had 1/2 of the 1st floor tile in place (less the grout). I'm hoping they come back tomorrow to grout & start work on the wood floors.

Granite countertops are in place

I can't wait to see what's next!

Update 7/25

---Updated pics on Construction Tab at the bottom---

No grading yet - they are trying to get the county to raise the sewer in the front so they are on hold until they get a decision about it.

They fixed our fireplace, just waiting on the brick masons to come back and fix the outside of the fireplace where the vent was.

Found out the vanity that was sitting in the family room (was supposed to be in Bonus Bath) was there because when we switched the bonus bathtub to a shower it took up more space so the vanity wouldn't fit - they had to order a smaller one.

We went by last night and saw that they were doing some serious prep for painting and almost all of the molding was in place.

The tile surrounds are now in place in all bathrooms.

We have our interior doors up but.....almost ALL of them have serious water damage from being in a garage with open windows and all of that rain so the PM had to reorder.

The columns they put in the family room (square) are not correct - they were supposed to be the round columns for this plan so they have plans to fix that soon (I hope).

We realized our front door was in a box in the garage - we looked at it and it wasn't right. Long story short - they are reordering the correct door so hopefully that will arrive in the next week or so.

They came out and acid washed the brick - it became apparent that possibly the brick masons kept taking brick from the same pile and didn't switch it up because there are serious patters of brick lots and also, the grout is not consistent...The PM is going to have the brick mason come out and try and get the grout coloring fixed (at least on the outside of the morning room).

Also, we noticed water damage on the ceiling just outside of the bay window area in the living room - PM said it's probably because of when they acid washed ; I hope that's all it is because we still only have plywood for a bay window roof.

All that aside - it's looking great in the house!

Update 7/20

We now have front steps and man do they take up a lot of the front yard since the house is so high. I'm not sure I like them yet, hoping the finish work will change my opinion of them once it's all done.

The cabinets were installed on the July 20th. Added pictures to the Construction Progress tab. There are concerns (of course):

• Kitchen cabinets look awesome! There is one door that is cracked but I believe they recognized this since they didn't put the door knob on it but hoping this doesn't cause delays to get a new one in place
• Master Bath vanity - let's see here....there was one drawer that wasn't flush with the cabinet. When I pulled it out and looked it seems the plumbing won't let the drawer go back all the way. Hopefully the plumber can fix this easily and it won't cause delays...Also, looks like they had to jamb the backsplash to make it fit and seems they damaged the wall which drew our attention to the side splash that wasn't flush against the wall because it seems the wall is warped!
• The vanity that was supposed to go up in the bonus bath was still sitting in the family room, I am not sure what happened there but there the toe kick may have been the problem, not sure. Again, hoping this doesn't cause delays.
• The vanity in the 1st bath upstairs has the knee space. I knew this would happen and they have the other cabinet ordered but the expectation was that they would just replace the knee space cabinet with a regular cabinet and I'm just not sure how that will work the way it is...

The fireplace has been framed out properly now but the fireplace is still not in place. Still not sure how they are going to make this work without having the brick masons move the venting up and patching up the hole with brick - worries me though that the brick masons didn't hear anything from the PM about this request yet so again....hoping for no delays.

I am noticing more and more the blue board that is supposed to go wherever there is tile in the bathrooms isn't always where it is supposed to be and it seems the Sheetrock guys tried to cover up the fact by putting a LOT of mud between where the blue board left off and the Sheetrock begins so it's hard to tell. One of the Sheetrock crew managers was talking to my husband the other day and told us the people that do the tile are ultimately responsible for doing that...My question is...then why do you do it in the first place? Why not do it right? All I see now are delays because the tile people are thinking it's going to be done when they get there...

I have emailed the PM about the concerns and we have talked in person about them but never at the house so we can show him what we are talking about. Thankfully my husband is meeting him and the Grader out at the house on Monday when hopefully he can discuss all of our concerns and the PM can give us a good feeling about where we are with addressing them....(I hope).

The PM communication seems to have dropped off. The Sheetrock manager that was there talking with my husband was waiting to meet the PM that day, he had been waiting for about 30 min and the PM never showed up, he was tied up. I'm concerned the PM is too busy with other properties and not able to make sure this stuff is getting addressed and backsliding in communication is not a good thing at this point...

Sorry I had to vent. Hopefully I will have some less frustrating posts in the coming weeks.

Update 7/17

Our Sales Rep verified the fireplace as built was not as we optioned it so they are re-doing it which is awesome but terrifying because I'm not sure how all of that works and it looks like it's going to be quite a task....hoping for no delays.

Also, we realized the roof over the exterior roof framing of the fireplace was off-set. The PM is going to have this addressed.

Brick masons said they should be done with the brick and front steps tomorrow so I'm looking forward to that (it's not supposed to rain...yay!)

Our PM told us that next week we should see the Kitchen Cabinets in and I believe he also said the molding would be in place. Also, next week they will start grading, build the deck and move the garage steps to the back wall of the garage.

A lot of stuff is supposed to go down next week so I'm super excited (but also still nervous lol!)

Update 7/14 - Fireplace Concerns

Just realized from reading another blog that our fireplace doesn't have the "bench" at the base of the fireplace. We selected the option for the fireplace with stone surround and I've seen what the model looks like now (it has stone surround all the way to the top) and the only difference as it was told to us was that we selected the option that didn't bring the stone all the way to the top.

Model Pic of Fireplace -

 Our fireplace so far (looks too low and should have the bench framed.....)

So I've emailed the PM and the SR but all I can see out of this are delays and if they don't retro it I won't be happy because I wanted the $3,295 option we selected for a reason!