05-30-2012
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#481
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Pewp Champion
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Blaine
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Re: House Projects
Weekly update:
Walkthrough is setup for 6/6 to point out any issues.
Leave for Fargo 6/7
Get married 6/9 in Fargo
Come back 6/11
Final walkthrough is setup for 6/13 to ensure those issues were corrected.
Closing is setup for 6/14 (2 weeks away!!!)
As for house progress:
- All lighting (interior and exterior) has been installed.
- Water is plumbed and fully functional. All toilets and sinks, etc are installed.
- Electrical is complete and fully functional (including cable & phone jacks)
- Kitchen appliances installed (Frigidaire Gallery). We are not getting laundry machines, will just be taking the ones from Katy's house and using them in the new house.
- Furnace and air exchanger system fully installed.
- A/C unit installed.
- Real front door installed
- All door knobs/hardware installed.
- 50% of cabinet hardware installed.
- All ceiling fans mounted and functional
- Metal rod/banisters installed on stair railing
- Downstairs carpet is installed.
- They've started doing the final grading. We met with the landscaper as well, so hopefully they will be starting on that within the next week or so.
* If anyone one here knows any good Gutter people, there's a couple spots we know need gutters pretty bad.
- Garage walls have been fully rolled with the free paint from my cousin. I just need to finish cutting in around the edges some more.
That's about it I think. I have 3 old ceiling fans in my house, I think I'm going to hang one of them in the garage. If anyone wants a couple ugly, but fully functional ceiling fans, let me know. I'm also trying to find a deal on some nice fluorescent fixtures to install in the garage if anyone has any.
That's all, here's some pics
Last edited by Halon; 05-30-2012 at 11:34 PM..
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05-30-2012
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#482
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Re: House Projects
Couple more pics
Last edited by Halon; 05-30-2012 at 11:41 PM..
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05-31-2012
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#483
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Blaine, MN
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Re: House Projects
Great news, check CL for fluorescent lights that's where I got mine and the price you like too!
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05-31-2012
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#484
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Transmission destroyer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cambridge
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Posts: 7,150
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Re: House Projects
Dave (95tsi) does gutters.
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05-31-2012
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#485
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immune from paybans
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: West Des Moines
Drives: poorly
Posts: 4,358
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Re: House Projects
Haha, is that a door with a 1 story drop in the back? Future deck?
Love the kitchen and garage space.
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05-31-2012
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#486
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Pewp Champion
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Re: House Projects
Yeah that door is for a future deck. For now it acts as a urinal
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06-05-2012
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#487
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Pewp Champion
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Re: House Projects
Just a little update for this week.
- Driveway and front sidewalk are in.
- All cabinet hardware installed (kitchen, bath, etc)
- Front door painted
- Carpet is 100% complete in entire house
- Started staging the stuff used to install the stone on the front of the garages, so assume that is coming soon.
- Contractors started cleaning up after themselves so places like the garage, furnace room, etc are starting to look pretty clean now.
Pretty much it for now. Here's some updated pics. Last pic shows the house at dusk with exterior lighting on. The ones on the front of the garage are a dim candle flicker affect, but brighten up when motion is detected.
Pretty much it
Last edited by Halon; 06-05-2012 at 10:24 PM..
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06-05-2012
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#488
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Pewp Champion
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Blaine
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Re: House Projects
Couple more pics. The one big empty unfinished room is the future theatre room.
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06-06-2012
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#489
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Re: House Projects
sweeet almost there!
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06-06-2012
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#490
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Banned
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Minnesota
Drives: down the middle of the fairway bitches!
Posts: 1,306
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Re: House Projects
Beautiful place, looks very modern and stylish on the inside.
Also congratulations on getting married!
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06-08-2012
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#491
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Who has my man-card?
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Crystal MN
Drives: a red car
Posts: 2,162
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Re: House Projects
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06-08-2012
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#492
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Re: House Projects
Nice! Built in grills ftw!
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06-08-2012
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#493
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Blaine, MN
Drives: '91 Automagic
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Re: House Projects
That's pretty sweet.
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06-08-2012
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#494
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Pewp Champion
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Re: House Projects
That's pretty cool.
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06-09-2012
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#495
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cottage Grove
Drives: Silver '02 IS300, Blue '06 Suzuki SV1000
Posts: 5,293
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Re: House Projects
Not really a project for me, but last weekend I moved to a townhome in Eagan with my gf. It's nice to not live way out in the sticks anymore!
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'06 Suzuki SV1000: Back on the road and ripping hard as ever!
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06-11-2012
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#496
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Pewp Champion
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Re: House Projects
Well went off and got married this weekend. Came home today to see the progress.
- Final grade with black dirt complete
- Landscaping has begun.
-River rock and edging installed.
- Boulder retaining wall installed.
- Start sod install tomorrow so had to go buy a bunch of water hose and
sprinklers as it will require a lot of watering.
- Rock installed on front of garage.
- Began painting front of house
- Interior all cleaned up ready for closing.
- They are still doing misc patch up work on the inside, we noted a lot of little things on our walkthrough last Wednesday so they are patching that all up.
Here's some pics!
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06-11-2012
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#497
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Pewp Champion
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Re: House Projects
And a few more pics.
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06-11-2012
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#498
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Transmission destroyer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cambridge
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Re: House Projects
No irrigation system? Also, who did the landscaping do you know?
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06-11-2012
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#499
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Pewp Champion
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Re: House Projects
We are roughed in for a future irrigation system, meaning they ran a larger water feed to the house, and the pipe is on the outside of the house if we ever get one. You can see it in some of the older pics, big brass piped behind the garage running down the side of the house exterior.
We really watched our budget and that didn't make it into the budget. So manual lawn watering for now, hopefully some day in the future we will be able to get a sprinkler system.
http://www.bd-bobcatandlandscaping.com/
That's who did our landscaping. 3 different companies contacted us. We met with this guy first and never even talked to the others. He made us feel like we were in good hands, so decided to just stick with them. So far no complaints.
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06-11-2012
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#500
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Transmission destroyer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cambridge
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Re: House Projects
That's cool you are hooked up for irrigation for future.
I was wondering who the landscaper was because the guy I worked for last summer did high end stuff like you would see in your neighborhood
http://spearslandscape.com/
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