I'm building a house.

Amgggg its looking SO good dude! almost there! Keep posting! French Doors ftw!

We've got tons of pics from Saturday (23rd), major changes were the addition of all the electrical wiring and the fresh water piping.

 

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The wiring for the stoop lights and sensors are in.

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The railings are in.

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All the mounting can things for the recessed lights are in.

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Hall light and, I think, another for the smoke detector.

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The garage.

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The load center in the garage.

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August 23rd cont.

 

Lots of wires.

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Garage ceiling.

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Cabling from the meter outside to the load center.

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The furnace is the only thing that's wired up so I assume this is the breaker for it.

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Outlet and switchbox in the garage.

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Hosebib in the garage.

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August 23rd cont.

 

Garage back wall.

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I forgot where this is...must be in the downstairs hallway.

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Foyer light.

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Stairwell light. There are 2 more...no point in posting them all.

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Living/dining room. Centex puts outlets everywhere...I meant to count but forgot but it's something like 1 every 6'.

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August 23rd cont.

 

Efficiency stickers on the tall windows in the living room.

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Shared kitchen/living room wall.

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Outlets at stairwell railing.

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Stairs to bedrooms and opening to kitchen.

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Powder room, fresh water pipes added.

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August 23rd cont.

 

Furnace label.

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Furnace installer.

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The cover was off, I guess they're still wiring it up.

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Back wall in kitchen, laundry on the left.

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Fresh water for the fridge.

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Kitchen island.

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Left inside wall of laundry closet.

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Top of last pic.

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Water taps for the washing machine. For the past 6 years we've had our washing machine on the left and the dryer on the right...they are flipped in this house.

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Edited August 25, 2008 by Lyssa

August 23rd cont.

 

Wall between the french doors.

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Family room wall shared with powder room and furnace closet.

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Utility closet on deck.

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Outlet and lights on deck.

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Starwell light up to top level.

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Ceiling fan outlet in master. There is one each in each bedroom, the family room and the living room as well.

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August 23rd cont.

 

They have framed in the boxed ceiling in the master.

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Master bath.

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Upstairs hallway.

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August 23rd cont.

 

Hall bath.

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Shared wall between the 2 small bedrooms.

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Left bedroom, the guest room.

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Right bedroom, study/den.

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One of the 3-way switches, all bedrooms have it for lights and ceiling fan.

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That's it for this week. Hopefully next week we'll see the telecommunications wiring put in.

lyssa im sorry i havent really paid attention to this thread, read it, or anything, but is that whole thing your house? or is it like an apt complex or something and you're gonna be a slum lord? cause it's sofa king big.

Lyssa, thank you for the multitude of pictures. I now know all the structural weaknesses and locations for possible mechanical/electrical failure. If you ever want to run an insurance scam you know who to talk to. Just pray I'm never in the area and get bored...

lyssa im sorry i havent really paid attention to this thread, read it, or anything, but is that whole thing your house? or is it like an apt complex or something and you're gonna be a slum lord? cause it's sofa king big.

 

It's a stacked townhouse, basically a 2-story condo. There are 8 seperate "houses" in the building.

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lololol ASS ULTRA

 

 

 

 

Lookin great dude! Almost done!

That's how I roll!!

Not sure if you addressed this already... but wire your living room for surround sound NOW! I made the mistake of waiting till AFTER the dry wall was up. Sure, I got it done, but MAN what a pain in the ass.

QFT any wiring that has to deal with being hidden do before the dry wall is up. Wiring the house with CAT-5e sucked big time. But totally worth it imo

Not sure if you addressed this already... but wire your living room for surround sound NOW! I made the mistake of waiting till AFTER the dry wall was up. Sure, I got it done, but MAN what a pain in the ass.

 

It wasn't something that I could option for. Centex does it...just in the single-family homes. And they told me not to go in and do it myself in the middle of the night. They actually told me a story about a guy who had done that in a home and ended up not buying the house for whatever reason. They then had to pay someone to pull all the wire he had poorly installed.

 

To be honest I'm not too worried about it. If I do put in a home theatre I can easily hide the cables at the baseboard and carpet.

Edited August 26, 2008 by Lyssa

This is probably the weakest update so far, just gas lines, sprinkler lines and the bath tubs. Some of the other homes had their tel/data lines run but no data cabinet yet. I'm guessing we'll have ours run by next weekend.

 

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New breaker.

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Looks like the power cable for the networking cabinet.

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Drywall under the bottom set of stairs.

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One of the sprinkler outlets.

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8/31 cont.

 

More sprinkler pipes.

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Gas line coming up through the kitchen wall from below.

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Utility closet doors are in.

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Gas for the water heater.

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8/31 cont.

 

Hall bath tub.

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Master bath tub.

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Master shower tray.

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Master bath.

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Hall bath.

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Sprinklers in front bedrooms.

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8/31 cont.

 

Gas hookup for range.

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Gas hookup for furnace.

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Ceiling fan rough-ins checked off.

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Gas line for range checked off.

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While we were there I went ahead and measured the windows and doors for window treatments. We really want to go with wood stained plantation shutters. We went to Next Day Blinds and the people were super helpful and stayed past closing, without rushing us to make sure we had all the info we needed. Ideally we want shutters on all the windows except the master bath, that's 16 windows total. Full price...$7500. The girl we were dealing with (the assistant manager) knocked off $750 then her manager came over and knocked off another $750. So after it was all done it's going to run us $6k installed. Basically the $1500 they took off covers the installation charges. We talked about putting blinds in the two smaller bedrooms to help bring the price down another $1500...but the blinds for that room will run around $500 which means that for *only* $1000 more we can have we really want. My wife talked to her mother and they paid $6k for all 28 windows in their house but they went with vinyl shutters and they don't offer stained colors...just white and ivory which we don't want. The girl promised us the price whenever we come back, she recommended that we put our order in around November to get the dates scheduled for their free measuring and then the install. I guess we'll see what happens.

Nice man, good deal on the shutters!

This morning we met with our mortgage guy to give him all our latest paperwork so we're good to go for the mortgage. We drove down to the house to take some pics, all they've done is install the structured wiring and they added a drop that we didn't pay for. Oops.

 

This is the company that's doing the structured wiring.

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They haven't put the wiring box in yet, but the cable is all there.

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Drop in the living room, multimedia tap (1 RG6 and 1 Cat5e terminated).

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Family room, telephone tap (1 Cat5e terminated for phone).

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Master bedroom, multimedia tap (1 RG6 and 1 Cat5e terminated for phone).

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Left bedroom, telephone tap (1 Cat5e terminated for phone).

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Right bedroom, telephone tap (1 Cat5e terminated for phone).

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The freebie, a second tap in the family room.

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Each of the blue cables carries 2xCat5e and 2xRG6 in that sheathing. The builder is only terminating what I specified above, but if I want to terminate the rest I just open the wall plate and terminate the rest myself.

Cat5e jacks are expensive, I never understood that. A bag of good quality 25qty is like $95 It's fun using an impact punch down tool though

 

 

Looks like they are almost ready to put up the dry wall!

They wanted $120 a pop for each drop, it was insane.

 

Yea, I'm thinking we're going to get our call for the pre-drywall inspection in the next 2 weeks or so.