Pre-Drywall Meeting

Hello!

We had our pre-drywall meeting today. Our PM tried to reschedule it to this Thursday since they haven't started insulation on our house yet, but our inspector said he actually would prefer to see the house without it and make sure nothing major would be behind any insulation. So that's what we did.

Frank was very nice to us, as usual. We walked the house and he explained to us what we were seeing. We had a few questions about the house, but we didn't know exactly what to look for. Having the inspector with us was very important as he did catch a couple of things we would have never thought of (a crack on the window frame, a disconnected HVAC duct, a couple of cables not nailed to the walls). Nothing too major, according to him, but glad he caught it. He will be sending us a report by tomorrow.

Now, the most important thing: the closing date.
According to Frank, they are having some issues with the electric company coming over, installing the meter, and starting service in the homes. Apparently, demand is way too high and they are having issues keeping up with it all. Frank hopes and is somewhat confident that they will have it all taken care of by first week of May. If that's the case, we should have our walk on 5/27 and close 5/31. We had talked to RH about closing in June, so I'll remind our SR of it and maybe we can schedule it for a couple of days later-- 6/2. That would work perfectly for us :)

We asked Frank for a few favors, but unfortunately he couldn't help us. They were:
- leave the granite lip out for backsplash
- install our fans
- install our cabinet knobs (we bought oil bronze ones). This he may be able to help after the house passes the QA inspection.

This is it! We are so excited and can't wait to move! :D

Guardian Meeting

On 1/7 Chad and I met with Guardian to determine where the cable and phone jacks will be placed around the house. It was a snowy day and as the true Brazilian that I am, I hate the snow. Driving in it makes me nervous and I almost peed my pants a few times when I felt the car sliding. Definitely not a grown up like adventure.

The meeting was quick and uneventful. We got an email before the meeting with a brochure, so we already knew that we were not interested in any of their services (well, that vacuum thingy on the wall was awesome, but the Dyson will do). The Guardian tech was not pushy at all, which was a big plus. Almost made me want to buy all sorts of services from him.

The house comes with 6 jacks included on the price, and we can mix and match between cable and phone outlets. Chad is a techy guy, so he did most of the talking. We ended up getting an extra cable jack and that will cost us $95. Not bad. The reason for this is that we are still not sure where we are going to set up our TV in the living room. It'll also gives us the option to move furniture around if we ever get tired of staring at one wall.

Here are the pictures of our selection. Filled triangles are cable jacks and non-filled triangles are phone jacks.