http://www.iainburns.com/house This is our first house, and we're building it! Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:03:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our pre-settlement inspection is a week from tomorrow. We knew a few weeks ago that our construction manager would be on vacation when our meeting was scheduled and he had a guy subbing in for him that had built the stacked townhomes in the past and who he had ... http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/11/18/new-construction-manager/ We finally got the email with our pre-settlement buyer orientation and settlement dates. The orientation is on Nov 26th at 9AM. I had them reschedule this from the Monday since I had taken the day of the 26th off from work. Because of this change they moved ... http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/11/11/pre-settlement-and-closing-dates/ http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/11/08/milestone-9-completed/ http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/11/05/milestone-8-completed/ This afternoon we took, what may be, our last trip to the house before our pre-settlement orientation. The sidewalks and gutters are in. The banisters will be installed this week. They will be stained cherry once they are installed. They've pulled all the temporary railings out. Yay, granite and appliances! All our ... http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/10/26/appliances-and-granite/ Wife just called me, our buying agent called to check in since she hadn't heard from us in a while. I guess she had called down to the sales office and talked to our sales lady and our granite has been installed. One thing we found out when we spoke with ... http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/10/24/random-info/ http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/10/22/milestone-7-completed/ The construction manager and sales lady called me today and the tile isn't being re-done. The tile we chose only came with 6"x6" bullnose tile, thus the large edging tile on the seat and around the bathtub. He said when the tile was first laid he had called the contractor ... http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/10/22/the-tile-is-staying/ Yesterday I emailed our sales lady to follow up on our converstation from Sunday and to see if she had talked to the construction manager. She had but the voicemail she left me didn't make a lot of sense so I re-iterated my problems with the tile and sent her ... http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/10/21/tile-drama-cont/ I wasn't planning on posting the pics of our neighbor's bathroom but the more I think about it the more pissed off I get. The neighbor is the same floorplan as ours. Our shower: Neighbor's shower: Our tub surround: Neighbor's tub surround It honestly looks like the person that did ours had never laid ... http://www.iainburns.com/house/2008/10/20/tile-comparison/