Enough With The Rain, Already!!!!!!!!

Well, today was pretty much a bust.

As I've mentioned before, the building site is all clay. Also, recall that clay retains water - it doesn't drain well. The site hasn't dried out in a little over a month, and today made a real mess.

I discovered last night that the siding crew left all of their tools out, and left boxes of siding, as well as their supplies, sitting outside. I had a little clean-up to do when I stopped by tonight, because they didn't work today, and the wind got ahold of things.

One of the trim carpenters was working today. On the inside of the house, they need to do about 20% of the kitchen island yet, about 25% of the laundry room cabinets, 25% of the staircase, build the shelves in the pantry and a cabinet over the toilet in the master bath, and hang the baseboards in about 75% of the main floor. They're planning on being done Tuesday. The painter is planning on starting Wednesday, and will take approximately two weeks. Another week or two for carpet, countertops, tile, and finish plumbing/electrical, and we're in.

On the exterior of the house, the siding is about 25% of the way done, the stone pillars need to be built on the front porch, and the deck railings built. Sounds like cake, right? We'll see - I'm more worried about the exterior of the house than the interior. It's taken us 90 days to get siding started, so I think my worries are pretty reasonable.

We are also still waiting for DTE to come and hook us up to natural gas. We called to place the work order six weeks ago, and they assured me it would be done by Wednesday, so we can paint. The siding guys have already sided where the meter goes, so they'll have some rework to do. Fortunately, I had the foresight to bury a piece of conduit under the retaining wall on that side of the house, so they can get their line from the side yard up to the meter (otherwise, they'd be digging down about six feet, and under the retaining wall.)

When we originally broke ground, the builder was pretty optimistic that we'd have the project done in three months. Our goal of being in by Thanksgiving was a slam dunk. However, due to all the rain and associated delays, we're looking at roughly a week or two after Thanksgiving. You're probably able to tell that I'm not really thrilled with that, but there's not really much I can do about it, so we'll deal with it.

On we go......