I haven’t been able to take pictures of the main house because a) too stinking hot to crawl around outside and take exterior photos, b) I don’t want to go into main house and start taking pictures while kids living in there
Every single day I get a text or phone call that something is wrong in the main house. We keep having to divert over to fixes in main house. Here’s a list:
That wood parquet floor was laid throughout the kitchen. Pieces started buckling up and we had to go in there and tear up kitchen floor to figure out what was going wrong. Biggest fear is water line break in the slab. As we pull up I can see that there is no underlayment between thin wood parquet floor and concrete slab! Big no no. After tearing up I had to call a moisture guy in to read the floor. So far I have determined that moisture is not coming up from slab, but probably was a large spill on top of the floor that went straight down through all the joins in the parquet and festered. We checked dishwasher and sink drains and they are not leaking
Shower head off in hall bathroom and left faucet not working. These were known from the repair list during escrow, but are proving hard to fix because I am supposed to call some plumbing company that the Seller is going to pay for, but noone can tell me what is ‘wrong’ with faucet so that I can have an intelligent conversation with plumbing company.
Ceiling fan emergency. It is so stinking hot that we had to install ceiling fans in all the bedrooms.
Long list of repairs known from escrow that she wants us to fix ‘at our convenience’. Some of them are big ticket items, like trying to shore up posts and piers that are dangerous under one of the overhanging decks.
I loaded some more photos of bathroom and kitchen progress. We still have at least 2 weeks of work left and are over budget for the following reasons (if you care to know)
Sanding, repairing and painting all of the wood windows was a much bigger project than I estimated. We will probably spend at least $2 k over on painting
Bathroom walls were way out of square. On the bathroom side walls, there is a full 1" difference between bottom and top of wall. Tops of wall are curving out. This caused a lot of issues with trying to mortar and set tile level on walls. We now have a lip of tile sticking out 2" around window frame and we need to invent some type of waterproofed trim around window. This caused a full day of applying drywall mud, drying, sanding, mudding, sanding and priming to level out the walls around the shower At least $1k cost
Here’s a lesson learned (although I already knew it). I estimated tile install for 12x24 large tiles. We ultimately chose the smaller octagons that require a lot of extra cuts for setting tile. Additional cost $400
The mini split is requiring that we pull a new line from the main panel out to where the AC unit is bolted outside. Another big issue I encountered. There is not one Eaton 20amp circuit breaker to be found in all of San Diego. I drove or called everywhere. The Home Depot shelves are completely wiped out in the electrical section. I finally researched that I can put a Murray breaker into the panel and found one dusty breaker at a Dixieline in La Mesa.
Because IKEA was out of stock on some cabinets, I had to get creative with purchases and we had to customize some cabinets to finish the kitchen.
And on and on and on!
I’m finding that Supply Chain issues are really impacting us (and I am guessing all construction). One small thing that is out of stock can impact the whole schedule.
