Electrical Inspection #1

We finally had our electrical inspection....after 2 weeks of waiting! Turns out, the guy wasn't getting our messages, and their fax machine wasn't working. I don't know... just a bunch of excuses. Anyways, luckily the inspector adores us. He was so nice and complemented our work. He went on and on about how impressed he was with Alan's work with this being his first house that he's completely wired himself...well of course with my dad's help. Couldn't have done it without him!Anyways, there were 2 very minor things that we have to do before he can approve the rough-in. We have to add one more smoke detector. The book we went by and the codes here are a tad off when it comes to that. So, no big deal at all. It took 5 minutes for Alan to put in. Also, we had to make a few connections to some wires that we thought we were supposed to do after the rough-in was inspected. But everything that we DID do was done exactly right! The inspector is off untill Tuesday, but he said he will come out first thing Tuesday and give us the go ahead once those things are done. He also gave us his personal cell phone number...which is great! He said he doesn't give it out to many people getting inspections, but for some reason he liked us. Things went a LOT better than I was anticiapting. People go to school for years to learn all of the things Alan did, so I was expecting at least something was going to need to be adjusted. I am extremely proud of my husband. He is SUCH a hard worker, and continues to amaze me at how smart he is! So, even though it took forever to get the guy out here, things went well. Granted, we are way behind on production now, because at this point there's nothing we are allowed to do on the house untill the electric and framing inspections are complete and approved. Our next step is soffit and fascia on the exterior and insulation on the interior. Those are next in line, but again neither of those can be done untill our inspections are passed. The framing inspection should be easy. It was the electrical inspection that I was dreading. After these though, we won't have another inspection untill the end! And from here on out, it's just finishing work....story of our LIVES! Everything from here on out will be things that we are both extremely familiar with, so it should go rather quickly and smoothly. As for now, it's just yard work.... that's about all we can do. There's plenty of it though.

Deck and More Seed

We are almost finished with our deck! We have to finish the stairs and take off some of the little brace boards that we used just to hold boards before they were nailed. In the pictures, you will see a few of the random boards nailed to the large posts...they're coming off. Other than that though, all we have to do is stain it....but we need to wait a few weeks to do that. With pressure treated lumber you're not supposed to stain it right away.

The next door neighbor boys came over yesterday....so I put them to work. We got the entire front hill seeded and strawed! All I had to do was say "who wants to throw grass seed on the hill?"....they were practically fighting over it. Granted, a lot of it ended up in their hair or down their shirts, because they had a seed fight during it but hey....I didn't have to do it, so it's a plus!

To keep them occupied after that, Alan handed them hammers, nails and scrap wood pieces... they were busy for hours making wood weapons or something...I dunno. Gotta love fall break, or whatever they're on....

Anyways, here are the pictures!

Oh yea, we took Rylee Belle with us! She had a blast....

HVAC Rough-In and Decks

The HVAC Rough-in is complete, and we are very close to being completely finished with both our front and back decks. We need another half day on the decks.