Oh what a week it has been progress but at the same time at a stalemate. Since we knew bad weather was coming they were able to get the tar paper down to help protect the roof last Saturday and it was a god thing that they did because it rained...ALOT!
The yard was a complete muddy mess
Wednesday they started on the shingles...unfortunately they were the wrong color. Luckily for us the roofing estimator stopped by to bring them some product and realized it was the wrong color before they got to far into it. So they had to tear them off and have the right color delivered to our house. But it was still really exciting to see roofing going on.
Wednesday was our 4 way inspection and lets just say it didn't go as we had planned. Our inspector is a real piece of work and has vocalized that he doesn't like self builds. Im pretty sure he will be difficult to work with thru the remainder of this process. He called Matt and gave him an ear full about how much stuff still needed to be done. After Matt got the call I headed to pick up the list since we were supposed to go finalize our cabinets that evening. When I got there the house was a crazy disaster. Everything was muddy. They were trying to deliver the right shingles and the Sheetrock while the inspector was finishing. The inspector had a come apart that they were delivering the sheetrock and threatened to red tag our project. Luckily Matt is level headed and talked it through with him. They were able to deliver the sheet rock but will have to come back on Monday to delver the shingles. I was at the house for over an hour talking with the inspector about various issues. After talking with him I got pretty freaked out about some of the issues he said we were having so I called Matt. Matt knew what was going on and said the inspector was mistaken and needed to take a closer look at the structural issues he had. After talking to Matt we decided he needed to come up and talk to the inspector to clarify a bunch of the problems. The inspector said he was going to be there so I left to get Hallie and Matt headed that way. Just as Matt pulled into the house the inspector left. Matt tried to get him to stop but he wouldn't! So we ended up with 2 full pages of things that needed to be fixed. some that were valid and some that we so stupid but he is the inspector. Matt was able to get a hold of all of the trades and set up time to get everything fixed. Hopefully we will be ready for another inspection next Wednesday so we can start making more interior progress. After seeing some of the listed issues it is looking like we are going to have to finish the basement at least to drywall unless we want to disconnect the electrical in the basement which seems silly so I guess we will see what happens. I'm hoping and praying that we will be able to find common ground with our inspector so he wont be such an a**. I know he is there to protect us but some of the things he is requesting even our sub contractors haven't heard of. I feel way less stressed about the house and I think that Matt and I have found a place of understanding that the house will be done when its done. I feel like when Matt isn't stressed about the house that I'm not either. We will make it thru this and move on with our lives.
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