Oh my goodness it has been a busy few
days! I am now back at work and feeling
like that is at least a “rest”. Although
I haven’t formally exercised in two days so I guess I had better log some time
on the treadmill this evening. I’ll save
all that for a later post!
I traded shifts to take Wednesday night off in
an attempt to get some sleep before our 11am appointment to meet with the 3rd
party inspector we hired to inspect our new home. We went over to the house on Wednesday evening
to meet with Butte Fence so we could get quotes on a wrought iron fence, the
standards for alley load homes in our community. Our neighbor on the left side has a large Saint
Bernard and she needs to have her patio side fenced in. We knew eventually we would want a fence on
both sides of our house so we offered early on to split the cost of the shared fencing
on that side. We really liked Butte
Fence and if we go with them will get a 10% discount since we are in a CBH
community. We learned a lot about
fencing and decided on what we would like so that was super helpful. We have two more fence companies coming out
this week to give us quotes.
The inspection went well. We hired AAD Inspection Corp and we really
loved our inspector Mike. He was a
really nice guy, very informative, and super friendly. He tried to ease some of our concerns
reminding us it is a new house and there will be issues that come up. He also wanted us to remember that when we
point out little stuff that needs fixed, the fix might look worse after than it
did before. So that is really good to
keep in mind. He will come back out in
11 months and do a re-inspection before our 12 month warranty ends. In the meantime if we do have little things
come up we will just keep a list and discuss it all with him at that time.
Mike said overall the house looks really
good. There are a few things CBH needs
to fix and we will know more once we get his report. We will also turn in a list of items to our
realtor and she will then submit all that to CBH. They have until our closing to work on
completing the items. We hope these next
two weeks will go smoothly. Everything
as far as the loan side of things looks really good so the wait is now on the
house being ready to go at closing. We
still have our official walk-through and meeting with the superintendant on the
17th.
While I am not a fan of complaining about a
business (which I’m sure doesn’t seem that way with the issues we have had
during our build process) this is a way to document our new home and also a way
to provide a review about a company for anybody out searching in the World Wide
Web. While we do have stuff we like
about CBH Homes, I am a bit irritated with how sloppy the cutting of our
outlets. Almost every outlet upstairs was
cut too large and thus now had to be patched.
Mike pointed out that the fix can look worse than the issue? Well….that is very true. I took a photo of an outlet in our laundry
room. Thankfully this outlet will be
covered by the washing machine. Seeing
stuff like this makes me not want to give CBH Homes a very good review. I am not a fan of sloppy work. I know these types of build jobs are fast but
there should be some pride taken when you are doing the job you are being paid
for. That is where my irritation comes
from.
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