Next up, Roofing and bricks!!

We received a call from our PM and he let us know all of the progress which they had made on our house.  We went by the house today and noticed that, just as our PM said, they have installed the garage door, the front door, all of the windows, and the sliding glass door in the back.  The tar paper has been attached to the roof and the shingles are ready to be installed.  The bricks have also been delivered, but I'm not sure if they will be put this week or not.  I can only assume that the masons will be onsite this week with the roofers.  The HVAC people have installed the heating and air conditioning system and the plumbers have installed all of the plumbing.  The electricians will be there on Monday, and our pre-drywall meeting will be at the end of next week.  Reading all of the blogs of people building with Ryan Homes has helped a lot with what questions to ask so I have a whole list of questions for our PM at the pre-drywall meeting.  My wife and I are going to have to go over where we want all of the half-hot switches and a few other things before the meeting so that we can sound like we know what we're talking about.  Here are the pictures de jour: 

It was kind of rainy earlier today so I only took a picture from the front.

Two stacks of these should be enough to cover the front of the house.

It's coming along!

The framing has started and the "upward/visible" progress is evident.  We are so excited.  There are only about eight more weeks before we move into our new home.  Here are some pictures:

This was the first time we saw the framing...

And this is now...(Front)

(Left side)

This is the back where the "true" morning room is.  I call it a "true" morning room because it faces East so the sun will shine through the windows in the morning, but it (the sun) will be in the front of the house in the afternoon.

This is the other corner of the back of the house.  You can see where our deck will be eventually.  The big opening is where the sliding glass door will be...

Here is the right side of the house...

The framing should be complete by next week.  After that the plumbing, electricity, and HVAC systems are installed and we will have our pre-drywall meeting with our project manager.  At that time I will be able to get some pictures of the inside of the house.  We're on a roll now!

More good news

I have been trying not to update the blog with useless information.  I only want to post updates when there is some new development or progress in the project.  Obviously, there is a "set up" time for the foundation walls.  We received a phone call from our site manager this morning and he informed me that the concrete slab will be poured the framing lumber will be in early next week and the framing will begin late next week.  This was great news for us because we have been driving past the site every once and a while and for the last two weeks it has been at a "visual stand still".  On one visit the hole was dug, on the next visit the foundation walls were up with the forms off, on the next visit the gravel was poured, on the next visit the foundation was back-filled and there was a ladder inside of the walls, but no upward progress.  This tells me that Ryan Homes has taken the time to build the house on a solid foundation, but now it's time for the upward progress.  I'm not adding any pictures to this post because the site looks the same as it did in my last pictures only with the dirt filled back in around the foundation walls.  There will be plenty of pictures as the process continues...

The Hole Has Walls...

So we were out at the mall today and decided to go by the build site just so that my wife could see it in person and our hole now has walls.  The process is moving a lot faster than we thought it would.

 And so far we have an entire side if the street to our selves until they start building our neighbor's houses.

It's great to see it all coming together after two months of planning, picking, choosing, and waiting.  Now it's coming into fruition.

And we have a hole!!!

I went out to the site today and the foundation has been dug. Here's a picture from the car.

There's not a lot to see.  It's just a six (or so) foot deep hole in the shape of the basement and our makeshift driveway.  Here is a picture so the site from the street.

Our site manager told me that he would like a heads up of when I'm coming out so that he knows if he'll have time to answer any questions, but I hope he doesn't regret that when I text him every Friday to tell him that I'm coming out to take snapshots.  Everything seems like it will move pretty quickly from this point so there will be more pictures as the construction gets underway.  To date, our Ryan Homes rating is still at a 10+ out of ten!!

Good news, Good news!!

OK so today we got the good news that the building permits have been issued and our foundation will be dug tomorrow.  I'll post some pictures of that when I go out to the site tomorrow evening. YEAH!!

Pre-Construction Meeting

I don't know what I expected from the pre-construction meeting today, but it was a lot simpler than I though it would be.  We met with our site manager and verified that all of the options which we selected with our sales rep translated to the site manager.  I guess this was the project being "passed off" to the site manager since he is our point of contact now.  The good news of the day is that they should be breaking ground on Tuesday as long as they get their permits and the weather cooperates.  Also, the site manager knows a "deck guy" so I might not be building my deck myself after all. We'll see.

(No pictures this time.  There's really nothing to see.)