Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Finished! 0 Hours To Go!!

Today we completed our 500 sweat equity hours!!

Yesterday, Andrew and I worked in the morning and filled all the Post-Tension holes in our foundation.
Our foundation is a Post-Tension slab with steel rods running through the concrete to make it stronger and less likely to crack. When the foundation was poured, the holes where the rods run through, were left open and we had to fill them with high pressure concrete.






When we arrived this morning, we only had 10 hours to complete. Andrew could only stay for the morning and I was going to stay the whole day. We started together by finishing our fence. There were 4 or 5 boards that were missing and needing to be installed to finish the fence so we nailed all those into place and I painted it in the afternoon.

Completed Fence....Looks Good!

After we finished the fence, we installed our mini blinds. We had to install two sets in the living room and one set in the dining room. 

My studdly man getting the window ready for blinds


Dining Room installed (bad lighting)

Living Room (large window)

Living Room (small window)

Andrew had to leave after these were done and I went to lunch and took a break. When I came back, I painted the fence and then got to work installing the final set of blinds in our stairwell. It was a little tricky doing it by myself and being up on a ladder in the stairwell, but I got it done.

Stairwell blinds

I spent the last 45 minutes or so, cleaning up. 
Over the last month and a half of working on our sweat equity, we had accumulated a lot of tools and things in that house and I wanted to put everything back and leave the house empty and clean for the inspectors tomorrow. The building inspection happens tomorrow and it is the final inspection. If the house passes, the house will earn the Certificate of Occupancy and we can give our 30 day notice and begin the escrow process. I hear we will have LOTS of paperwork to sign. 
We should find out tomorrow or Friday if the house passed and if we can give our 30 day notice. 
I pray everything goes smoothly and that we would even be able to begin to move in before our 30 days is up in this apartment!






Monday, September 12, 2011

Final Countdown

Seventeen more hours to go!!

Watch the countdown this week!!!

We should be opening Escrow at the end of this week too!!!!

Whoo Hoo!!!!!

Friday, September 9, 2011

Update

Yesterday we received word that we should be able to move into our house in the next 40 days or so. Our house should pass inspections and be given a Certificate of Occupancy next Friday, the 16th (Bobbie's 9 month birthday) and then we can give our 30 day notice here at our apartment and begin the escrow process. We are hoping that we can move into our house before our 30 days is up in the apartment, just so we can have time to move over a few days, or weeks, rather than all in one day or weekend.
If not, we will still be able to move into our house in the middle of October, which is GREAT news!! We're so excited, and so ready!!

Today, we met with an interior designer who helped us choose paint colors for the house. We are excited to paint our walls and get the house ready for move in!
Bobbie's room will have one wall painted a soft pink color.
Our bedroom will have one wall a plum color and the rest a light silver/grey.
The kitchen will be a golden tuscan yellow.
The living room will stay the vanilla color it is, but we're painting the wall that the stairs are on a dark greyish earth-toney brown.
I got some good advice about the laundry area and pantry too. Inside closet areas like that, you should paint the walls a dark color. It makes the walls recede and then you can see your food in the pantry or the clothes in the laundry area better. If you keep the walls white or whatever light color they are, especially if the area has a light in it, all the stuff (like your cans and food) get all lost and look like a big chaotic mess. So, I'm going to use whatever left over paint there is that is darker than the walls to paint inside my pantry and inside the laundry closet. I'll post pictures after the fact so you can see if you agree with the interior designer. :)

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Delay in completing our hours

Bobbie got sick on Labor day and had a fever all night and all day on Tuesday. I wanted to stay home with her since she was just so clingy and she had a hard time sleeping. She's much better today, no more fever and she's got her personality back, but I thought it best to stay home one more day just to make sure.
So, because of that, we haven't completed our 17 hours we wanted to finish this week. I may go and work on Friday morning and get some hours in.
Andrew and I are required to take a Home Buyers Education Class that will be held on Saturday. Its a real snoozer class, I hear, and we have to pay for it, but we're getting 16 sweat equity hours for it.
I think if Bobbie's all better, we should be done with our hours next week.
I'll keep my hours updated on the sidebar of the blog.

We are still waiting to hear if Habitat will open escrow for us. I should hear back today, since they were supposed to have a meeting today to decide when they would be able to do that. If they are able to open escrow, we should be able to move in in at least 30 days.....that's what we are praying for! You can pray too!! and I'll let you know what they decided today in the meeting.