10 months down...

While many of you have asked about our "official move-in date", as the general contractors for our house we can sufficicently say, "not tomorrow, but we hope and expect before August 24 when Julia starts school". In reality, things are progressing nicely, and but we still have the following before we can apply for our occupancy permit:

Indoor:
Flooring in the bathrooms and kitchen (this is being installed later this week, or early next week).

Kitchen cabinets (being installed by our cabinet maker later next week (7/15) or on 7/18).

Countertops and sink (will be installed a couple weeks after the cabinets are in, by the end of July)

Bathroom vanities (being delivered on 7/18-installed later that week).

Bathroom fixtures (Plumber will install after flooring is in)

Doors on the bathrooms (most likely after the wood floor is installed. This may start in two weeks).

Well test: this can happen after we have all the faucets and we can run the water for a while. Probably looking at the third-forth week of July.

Light fixtures: Electrician should be putting these up this week/next

Window trim: Keith started it this weekend, and will be working on it next weekend as well.

Outdoor:

Rain garden

stairs/rail for screened in porch

Sounds like a lot, and it is quite a bit. It will certainly be a very busy July, but hopefully we will be starting August with a much smaller "to-do" list. Regardless, it is still quite amazing to see how far we have come in 10 months building it ourselves, and still working full-time.

Now for the update of what progress happened this weekend. Keith was able to get the geothermal turned on so we have A/C in the house now. A real treat, since June and July have been hot and humid so far, with many more similar days to come. Ronnie, Keith and Craig also finished painting the interior, and cleaned the drywall dust off the floor. Since we are running the A/C, Keith and Ronnie hung the final door leading from the garage into the house this weekend. They also got all the final subfloor in for the Marmoleum install AND we have a handrail going down the stairs to the basement. This was the one item that I let Keith pick out with no extra feedback approval from me :)

We had a great holiday weekend, too. It was spent swimming in Lorraine and Bob's pool, relaxing (well, me and the kiddos relaxed), and seeing the fireworks in town.