Days 34-37 (November 11-15)

This week took on more of administrative tone.  We had several inspections--Rough Electrical, Rough Mechanical, Rough Plumbing, and Framing.  There were no problems on Rough Plumbing and Rough Electrical.  There was one minor hit on Rough Mechanical that took less than 15 minutes to fix.  A reinspect the next day cleared the issue.  The Framing inspection revealed two issues, one administrative and one actually requiring work.  The plans for the extension failed to identify some of the hurricane mitigation straps that were installed by the framers.  The plans needed to be revised to reflect this for the county records.  Additionally, because of the large upper window and the lower roof pitch, the inspector wanted additional steel strapping installed for hurricane mitigation.

Unfortunately the architect is on vacation until Monday, so the revision to the plans and the ensuing reinspect will be delayed until next week.

The slower production period gave us plenty of time to get all of the low voltage wiring in for the Audio-Visual system.  It became apparent quite quickly why the installers were charging $100/wire for the prewire.  What I thought would be a half day job turned into a two full day job, most of which was spent on a ladder. 

Doors!  You would think that after building structures for centuries that had doors, getting the right one delivered at the right time would be a no brainer.  Not so fast.  The outside closet door frame and the main entrance door frame have been delivered twice.  Of the four frames that arrived only one was correct (the outside closet door).  As for the doors themselves, they are lost somewhere in the logistics chain.  Hopefully they will be found soon.  Until then, there is a dummy door on the closet and nothing on the main door.  At least the barn doors for the master bedroom arrived as scheduled.