Internal work continued this week as Monday-Tuesday were spent finishing up on the electrical, plumbing, HVAC, patio and rear doors. There was an inspection by the City on Wednesday to check over all the framing and systems, which passed with flying colors, not surprising given the quality work the Structural FX crew is doing. Also on Monday the sheet rock arrived by truck and special forklift to place the bundles needed in each room.
Thursday morning, a crew arrived from West Coast Insulation to put insulation throughout the house. They did all walls, inside and facing outside, and ceilings. All in a day's work with 3 people. They will be back to finish the underfloor when all is done on finishings just to avoid any complications with having to pass things through the floor still.
Friday morning, a crew of 8 arrived from Alliance Drywall to close the walls up. I can say even just after a day they are moving at a mighty fast clip. They plan to work Saturday with a crew of 12 and Monday they should be done with the entire house!! I especially like their little dremel type tool to cut out the boxes and lights. I wish I had one of those a few years back when I was doing drywall.
Once again pulling his strings, Brian was able to line up a contractor to work on our back yard garden walls and the front and rear paver stone before the rains hit us here. I was impressed that the day after we agreed on price, they showed up with a crew and machinery and started. We're working with Design Interlock (www.designinterlock.com) and Angel is our foreman, who Brian highly recommends and worked on a magnificent previous house he built.
We are going with McNear Versalok wall, the Mosaic weathered stone in Serpentine color. We also chose the McNear Old Country Cobble pavers in charcoal/grey color which should look nice with a golden yellow house. We like the McNear cobble pavers better than Calstone as these ones are about 2x as thick. They also have a rough stone like appearance to them, similar to the Calstone Quarry but the ones we got were half the price.
Lastly, I placed orders for carpet - Owen Carpet in Dalton Georgia. We chose a Shaw Sutton Corinthian #18795, Color Ambrosia #00103, 12' width, 100% Nylon, 3.75 wear factor, berber style. Even with shipping, we saved 30% over local prices. It should be here first week of December and they will hold it in a warehouse until then. In addition, we ordered the garage doors. We went with Martin Flushline standard insulation with the ultra quiet belt drive in white color and with Canterbury windows to match our front cratsman door with similar windows. These should be installed in a month.
Next week the garden wall and paver work will continue. The drywall team will be spending 7-10 days smoothing and sanding the walls. The exterior stucco work should start.
