Paint and Surprises

Since last week's visit, the cabinets are all installed. The trim work is all up and has been painted. Lot's of drywall patching and more painting. All the ceramic tile in the bathrooms is done. The heat was on and so were the lights! Outside all the siding was on. They were starting the stone and the deck.

First - a door update. Last week I mentioned the master closet door wasn't hung to swing out into the bathroom as we requested and the basement door was swinging out into the dining room instead of into the stairwell. Our PM agreed the master closet door would be switched as he had previously agreed to that in the pre-construction meeting. As for the basement door, turns out that's another one of those "rolling changes". Based on feedback of current Calvert owners, the doorway to the basement was too small to get large pieces of furniture down there. I can understand that, we had a similar concern. In an effort to fix that, they made the door six inches wider. Great! Except now because of how much wider the door is, it can't swing nicely away into the stairwell. So we had a decision - we could have the door switched back to the old size and swing in, or keep as is. While I hate that the door swings out, we had already discussed taking the door out anyway as most of the basement is finished and I didn't want the furniture situation, especially because we don't have a walk-out. Bigger door it is and I can almost guarantee it will be coming off the hinges.

Now for the surprises...

I was able to get a close look at the tile in the master bathroom for the first time. Last time we were there the guys was in the process of installing it. A couple things we noticed were an odd sliver of tile in the corner row. I guess the guy messed up the placement of the tile. A couple of the accent tiles were a little crooked and the corner bull-nose pieces were split down the middle. The guy that was there with us at the time cause our PM was running late said they make the square corner bull-nose, but they are fired at a different time in a different location and usually don't match right. So now they splice together pieces. I can live with that. However, while I was closely inspecting the accent tile he goes "don't fall in love with this shower" and I was like, "why not?" and he said "we're ripping it all out." HUH? Apparently they didn't think the tile work was acceptable (mostly because of the corner sliver) and are making the flooring place re-do it. I have to say, I'm impressed they took that action all on their own and don't accept poor workmanship. So fingers crossed it all turns out much better than the first time around. I made special mention of making sure those accent pieces were straight!

We also were told that they had to move the window in our bathroom. Apparently it wasn't centered correctly so when they installed the vanities, it was obviously a couple inches off. I can't even imagine what a mess that was to move and thank goodness they hadn't installed the stone on that side yet. They did break the lower pane in the process, but they said a new one is ordered and won't be installed until the last minute, just in case it could get broken again. Again, glad they identified their mistakes and fixed them. I just hope there's no issues with the window frame or weatherproofing since it all had to be moved.

Stopped by the next day since I wanted to see the progress on the stone and the deck. Looks like they made of tons of progress so very excited to see where we're at this week since we're getting near the end!!

Perhaps I should consider starting to pack up my current house...