A good Saturday

Today we went to visit the house.  We were told a lot had been done since we saw it last, so we were excited.  We arrive to see 3 vans worth of workers.  The trim carpenters were finishing the trim.  The cabinets guys were installing cabinets, the the tiling crew was tiling the master bath room.  The non-carpet flooring had been installed earlier this week, and we were happy to see it looked good.  The spindles are also mostly installed.  We also went to Best buy and purchased a fridge.  We had one picked out and I had been watching the sales.  it was the lowest Price I had seen after 2 months of watching.  best buy was able to delay the delivery (which was free) until October 6th, the day after we close.

Fridge

Kitchen

Spindles

Master bath

Siding

They had started the siding before our last post, but I wanted to wait until more was done.  We went out tonight to take a few more pictures, and here it is.

Drywall

We went out to the house to check out the progress and found the drywall was completely hung.  there is still some taping and mudding needed, but it is all hung.

Foyer

Formal Living Room

Formal Dining Room

Family Room

Bonus Room (You get the small window with 3rd car)

Study

Master Bath

 First Floor Powder Room

 Upstairs Laundry

 Stairs

 Pantry

Week 8, Pre-drywall meeting

We met with our PM today for our pre drywall meeting.  It took about an hour.  I hadn't been to see the house since last week and the insulation was up on the walls.  We got our 2nd delivery of windows and they were installed.  Our new furnace came in and that was installed too!  Woo!

Talk about total paranoia now.  I was watching a white pick up truck, with lots of ladders, at it sat for five minutes outside our house.  I know he was getting ready to take something so I stared him down and he left.

Almost everything that we've requested to get changed/ fixed, Ryan has done so.  Still waiting to hear about what's going on with the roof.

Next step is an inspection from our town, then drywall will start Friday.  Quite possibly the siding will start this weekend!

Inspections and Thieves

It is official, the thievery has delayed our progress.  If you have read some of our previous posts you may have noticed that first 1/2 of our windows, and our sliding glass door were stolen.  Because the door was missing, someone stole the furnace that had already been installed the prior day.  Now Ryan can't do the siding or insulation without the windows, and we can't do energy star without the furnace.  I find is simply amazing that anyone could take something that they did not work for.  I imagine that somehow these assholes justify this because they are stealing from a builder and not a person, but think about how much more Ryan could afford to give us if they did not have to account for thieves.

On another note, we decided to hire a private inspector to inspect the home pre-drywall.  This went better than I hoped.  The inspector said it was built very well.  He sees a lot of builders cut corners, and this was not the case in our home.  He also said he would be happy if it were his home.  This is the best money I have spent so far, an  I plan to have him our again right before closing so he can fully test everything, and do a radon test.

Earlier in the week I had sent my PM at list of 17 items that I wanted to address/request.  So far everything has been fixed/changed or have received a promise or acceptable fix.  Although we are still waiting for the final verdict on the roof, I feel good that they are working on getting the shingle manufacturer to make it right.

Good and not so good

We went out to the house yesterday to check it out.  We found some good stuff and some bad stuff.

The Good

The brick was on the house and I really like it.  I was not expecting to have it around the porch slab, but there it was.  I think it is going to look really nice.

I was also pleasantly surprised to see the plumbing nearly done.  The shower basin and tub were also set in place.

I was also happy that the crew came out and cleaned the mold off of the trusses and coated them with something that will prevent mold in the future.  As soon as I mentioned mold it was taken very seriously by Ryan, and we appreciate that.  

The not so good

Still waiting on windows because 1/2 of them were stolen.  This is not Ryan fault, but it would be nice to have windows in our house.  We also noticed yesterday that the furnace was gone that was there Thursday.  I hope that did not get stolen as well.

The biggest source of disappointment is the roof.  First off the shingles are the wrong color, or at least not what we thought we were going to get.  Our neighbors have a nice brownish grey color and we have a solid grey.  It does not look nearly as nice as the neighbors houses.  I am hoping they replace it all.  In my opinion the roof also need to be redone for another reason.  It is awful.  The shingle installation does not look professional.  Ridge vents are not nearly long enough to cover the gap and there are just shingles over a 4 inch gap in the wood.  Not sure if you can tell from the picture below but the roof is cut wrong and that is the underneath side of shingle you see.  it is not the bottom of the ridge vent.

Now for above roof picture of what you are seeing there.  As you can tell from the picture below it is not right.  I am no roof inspector but this is obviously wrong and will leak for sure.

Other than these obvious issues I think the rest of the roof looks wavey and uneven.  This could be because the shingles have not settled, but you tell me if I am crazy.  It may be hard to tell but the roof is not flat at the edge.  Let me say our neighbors roofs look far more professional than our does, so I am sure it is not a practice of Ryan homes in general to do bad roofs.   My guess is that we just got a bad crew.

After looking at everyones very helpful blogs I came to the conclusion that we do not have enough ridge vent.  the wood on the roof was was obviously setup for entire length ridge vent similar to this one.  (notice the nearly full length ridge vents)

Here what ours looks like.  (You may have to zoom to se anything)

We also made a couple of requests to have some vents moved. and some bracing added so we could mount our TV.  I hope they do this for us.  I am thinking they will.

Our neighbor's roof (notice the dimensional look)

Our Zebra stripe roof (notice the vertical lines of alternating dark/light).  Anyone know what was wrong with the installation to look like this?