Bateman in Central New York - Building Blog: Interior Photos

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Progress Update

Lots of things happening at our site. I got to spend some time there last night starting the trim work for the A/V wiring I installed.

We noticed a handful of things that need to be addressed. A couple of them are things we explicitly discussed that have been done wrong. I have another post coming for those.

Photos:

Garage is a bit more open now that items are being installed.

Hard surface flooring is in. That's a remnant piece on top of the craft paper.

Front of the dining room/foyer.

View of the foyer from the dining room.

View into the office.

View from inside the office.

View of the kitchen/morning room. Island countertop isn't set yet.

Another view of the kitchen. There are some issues in here. I'll delve into them in a post later today.

Morning room window is still broken.

Pantry doors are in.

Railings are in.

Laundry room.

Hallway closet upstairs (master bed entry).

Upstairs bath flooring and vanity installed.

Another shot of the vanity.

Master bath vanities. We'll be painting these quickly. Likely white. Floor tile installed.

Shower tiling started.

Flooring in the master bath closet is incomplete. Must have run out of material?

Dehumidifier is finally in place. Basement is mostly dry now.

No change in the panel, but electricians should be in over the next few days.

We're going to make some great storage under the stairs. They left some flooring remnants - more than I thought they would.

Furnace is all set up. Still waiting on water heater.

Microwave and dishwasher are on site. Oh - we ordered our appliances that will be replacing these!

Still drywall work to be done in the garage.

Handle sets and hardware are in boxes in the garage.

Friday, June 19, 2015

We met with our PM on 6/17/15 at 3:30pm to do our formal walk through. I have spent a large quantity of time in the home over the previous four days so I had already sent my list of issues to the PM and they had already been resolved.

I did not hear any floor creaks except for an odd creak/crack sound at the base of the stairs. He acknowledged this and it was corrected the next time the framers came in.

Pending open issues:

One missing hopper window in the basement
Broken window in the morning room
Various unlevel floor seams
Garage door slider locks do not line up

I didn't notice anything else worth noting here. The crews in our house have done a great job. I have worked in dozens of new construction homes and the quality here has been at and above par.

At the end of our meeting our PM got onto his iPad and let us know that our tentative pre-settlement demonstration should be on July 27, 2015. He said we should close on July 29, 2015 pending any unforeseen circumstances. This is exciting news! We had initially been told a variety of dates ranging from July 17 (which we knew wouldn't happen) to August 18 (which we had hoped it would be earlier).

Photos: Notes & Updates

Lots of information and photos in this post. If I had more time to post over the last week I would have done so. I also did not take pictures at our Pre-Drywall meeting and I will ask the SR to let us in on Saturday to do so.

I have had fairly open access to the site due to being a contractor with RH. Until drywall and paint are done I expect the PM to provide little access to the home to go in and take pictures. I will try to get in as much as possible, but it sounds as though he would prefer that not be the case.

From midpoint in the garage towards the front of the house.

From midpoint in the garage towards rear. They ran the microwave vent below the ceiling and also boxed in a big MEP chase - not my favorite solution, but acceptable.

Inside that large MEP chase.

Concealed gas line in the garage!!!! Also some LV wiring through the ceiling.

I was very happy to see that they did bury the gas line in the wall. This was a request that I was initially told could not happen, but they came through.