Construction Update - Week 16

Construction is complete on our house.  All inspections are done, and the crew is just working a few touch-ups inside.  We have our new home orientation on Wednesday and we can't to walk into our completed home!  We close in a little over a week and move in two weeks.  This is our first home and I still can't believe this is all really happening.  I feel so lucky to be getting such a nice place to call home.  It's amazing!

I'll post another update with pictures after our orientation.

Construction Update - Week 12

We received our weekly update from our PM this morning.  Everything is moving along great!  The crew is working on the siding and shutters for our block.  So far we don't have siding on the front of our house, but it's expected to be finished by the end of the week.  The plumber also came through and installed all of the toilets, fixtures, and faucets.  The crew also installed all of our towel bars, toilet paper holders, and the shower curtain rod in the guest bath.  Last but definitely not least, we have electricity!!  I can't wait to get better pictures of everything this weekend with the lights on!

Here's an updated picture of our block from our PM.  We're the house with partial brick and no siding yet.

Construction Update - Week 9

We just received our weekly update from the PM on this snowy first day of spring.  It was another week full of progress. This week our house was inspected by PG county and Energy Star and insulated.  The crew started on drywall yesterday and will be working on that through early next week.  Around the middle of next week they will sand and paint. Then the trim carpenters will be starting to install interior doors, kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, and trim moldings.  

We're headed out of town for a week tomorrow and it sounds like we will come back to a lot of changes.  Can't wait to see everything in person next weekend!

Progress and a (Minor) Delay

We had a pretty bad snowstorm on Thursday, which closed a lot of schools and businesses in the area through Friday.  As a result the work on our house was delayed a couple days, so our pre-drywall meeting was pushed back until Monday 3/16.  This is completely understandable and overall our house is still on schedule for May, so we don't really mind the delay.  

Anyway, we ventured out to the house on Saturday to walk through.  We weren't expecting to see much progress, but we were pleasantly surprised to see our windows had trim and our bathtubs were in.  The crew was working when we were there.  It seems like they end up working every Saturday.

Daisy and I in front of the house

Living room looking into the kitchen

Living Room

Tub in the Master Bath

Shower in the Master Bath

Laundry Room looking through to the tub in the Hall Bathroom

Guest Bedrooms

Morning Room (our dining room)

Back of the house

Construction Update - Week 7

We got our weekly construction update this morning, and despite some snow, the crew made good progress on our home this week. They installed both layers of house wrap on the exterior, and the rough duct work and plumbing are just about complete. Electricians, gas pipe mechanic, sprinkler technicians, and Guardian are all scheduled for early next week.  Our pre-drywall walk through is on Wednesday along with our home inspector's pre-drywall inspection.  

I'm very excited to get back out to the house this Saturday to walk through again!

Our first time inside our house

After being gone on work travel all last week, I was so happy to get our weekly update on Friday telling us that we would be able to go inside our house this weekend.  Last week they finished framing, put the shingles on the roof, and put in all of the windows and doors.  It was awesome progress!  We even had a little snow on Thursday and they still didn't lose a day.  

After getting such a great update, we couldn't wait to get out to the house, so we went on Saturday instead of our usual Sunday.  We showed up and the crew was wrapping the front of the houses, but luckily they had already wrapped our house.  So we had a SR escort us through the house.  I can't even begin to describe how wonderful it felt to walk inside our own house for the first time!  Sure it's just framed at this point, but it was so cool to look around and think this is all going to be ours in a couple months.  Now that we can start going inside, our weekly trips out to the house just got more exciting.  Anyway onto the fun part, the pictures!

Front view of our block

Back view of our block

Back view of our house

Front view of our house

Future kitchen

Open rec room looking at garage

Rec room looking at front door

Morning room windows and doors

Kitchen and living room

Two smaller bedrooms (guest bedroom and office)

Walk in closet

Master bath

Us out front

View of the houses from the future path to metro

Predrywall Scheduled

We got our weekly update from our project manager, and they've been making great progress. The house is progressing so well that our PM wanted to schedule ourpredrywall walk through for March 11. We have a trip planned for later in the month, so this date works out great. We already worked it out for our own home inspector to come that day too. It's great to see everything moving along well!

Construction Update - Week 5

We received our weekly construction update this morning.  We have been having horrible weather in this area, so I wasn't really expecting anything to get done.  Although the weather has cause some delays, they are almost done framing with most of the roof structure complete.  We should be getting shingles early next week and we may even get HVAC by the end of next week.  It's great to see some progress on the house and our PM is even nice enough to include a picture in his updates.  We can't wait for our drive out to the site this weekend to see everything in person!

Here's a picture of our block.  Our house is the second from the left.

Week 5 Progress

Construction Update - Week 4

We received our weekly construction update from our PM last night.  They are framing away on the house, and are currently working on the second floor walls.  Our PM expects that they will be framing all next week and build the roof by the end of the week.  It's exciting to hear that our house is taking shape so quickly!  

We will probably do our weekly drive out to the homesite on Monday, so I'll post progress pics then.

Framing is Started!

My husband and I received our weekly update from our PM on Friday.  We were expecting that the concrete slab would be complete, but we were pleasantly surprised that the slab was completed and the crew had started framing!  We were so excited that we did our weekly drive-by on Saturday instead of Sunday.   To our surprise, the crew was there working on our house.  Seeing the house make it to the framing stage is making this all so much more real.  We can't wait to move into our first home together in May!

Here are some pictures of the progress:

Driving up to our block

Our house!

The crew working

Back view of our house
We're the second one in

Our pup, Daisy, with the house in the background

Daisy supervising the work

In addition to all the work on the house this week, our puppy, Daisy, gained a pound.  She's almost halfway to her full-grown weight now.  

It's fun to see our puppy growing while our house is being built.

Exterior Colors

We got an email from our sales rep yesterday with a picture of our exterior colors.  In our community, the exterior options are all selected by a designer.  I'm thinking this is probably normal for the townhome communities.  The community is very neutral colors, so we knew that whatever we ended up with would be fine.  It turns out we ended up with the brick I really wanted for the partial brick front!  I also love the color for our door!

Here's picture of the exterior selections:

The brick is Olde Columbia and will go about a third of the way up the front of the house.  The siding is Pebble Clay and the door is Fiery Brown.  

Starting to See Some Progress

We drove by the house this weekend to see the progress.  We have foundation walls now and underground plumbing is supposed to go in this week.  It's exciting to start seeing some progress on our house and the community around it.  

We had our puppy with us so we didn't stop in the model, but it looks like they are still trying to sell one of the townhomes in our block of six.  They've sold three across the street from us in the next block of eight.  

We were the first to buy in our block of homes.  Now that the block is almost sold out and the next block has started selling, my husband and I can't help but wonder who our new neighbors are.  It would be really great if they are some other young professionals, but I'm sure whoever our neighbors are, our home will be a thousand times better than our current apartment.  We are so excited for our move in May!

Here are some pictures from our visit:

This interior unit is our elevation, but we don't know what color our shutters and door will be yet.

Our homesite with foundation walls

Back view of our homesite

Our block with the foundation walls poured

The March delivery homes have most of the exterior complete now

The entrance to our community

So much work has been done since we signed our purchase agreement in October!  It's amazing!

We received our first update

Last night my husband and I received our first construction update email from our PM.  By the end of the day today, all of our foundation walls will be poured for our house and the other houses on our block.  Next week the plumbers will work on all of the underground plumbing and connections. Our PM even included a picture of the work in the email.  We're really looking forward to driving by the homesite tomorrow.

Work on our house