Why do they call them punch lists?

The end of the tunnel is within sight....We hope to start sheet rocking on Tuesday of this week...It was a very productive and busy weekend...Doing what?? Well, to give you a taste, this was Sunday's punch list....

Sunday - Nov 20th Punch List
Jeff

1. Bathroom Wiring Adjustments
2. Vacumn Cleaner Wiring Loop
3. Thermostat Wiring
4. Blocking in all 4 Bathrooms for towel bars
5. Attach the control panel frame to the wall.
6. Blocking in Living Room for Drapes
7. Blocking in Bathrooms for shower curtains
8. Blocking in Kitchen for hood
9. Install Dryer Vent
10. Install low voltage wire in Kitchen and Laundry
11. Pipe Insulation on 3rd Floor
12. Run 2 conductor wire from hot water solar panel to garage.

Mike
1. Run speaker wires to Mike's Office
2. Run volume control to Mike's Office
3. Confirm all smoke detector and motion detector wires are in.
4. Install 3 sets of speaker Rings
5. install Sirius Sat. wire run to attic
6. Install smurf tube to attic for Satellite wire runs
7. Exterior Speaker Placement,penetrations & Wire runs
8. Exterior Volume control run to laundry area
9. Drill door frames for alarm contacts
10. Run extra Cat5 from headroom to media room
11. Insulate garage door.
12. Pull Cat5 wire to garage
13. Pull speaker wire to kitchen
14. Pull 2 volume controls to Kitchen
15. Unbury pex piping in insulation next to living room bench
16. Pull string under bench to expansion box.
17. Finish putting foam around all windows and doors

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Disaster averted....One step closer

Yesterday the City Utilities Dept. sent out the guy that is Mr. Sewer for all of East Sac....He had an old map of our part of town that showed the water and sewer lines running diagonally across our lot!!! After one quick look at the manhole in the front of the lot and the manhole in the alley, it was easy to see that the sewer line ran parallel and well within the 20 foot easement....excellent, but what about water? Today the Utilities Department sent out the guy that is Mr. Water for all of East Sac...he had one of those retro 1970's-esq Fu Man Chu mustaches, not that I noticed.... Anyway, he brought all sorts of fancy pipe detection equipment and in no time at all he found the water pipe....It was also well within the easement and does not run under house site....phew... Pat at the City Utilities Department just called, she had that perky and cheerful voice that most people get when they can tell you that a problem has been averted, she used that voice when she told me ...

Walk on by....

At long last our front steps and sidewalk are done... We also replaced half of the sidewalk in front of our old house next door. The city had flagged it for replacement due to tree root damage(at our expense of course - thanks to Proposition 13) six months ago. We worked with the new homeowners to repair their landscape and now we both have great looking sidewalks.

Stepping Out!

This picture shows the guys from Excel Concrete(highly recommended for both foundations and flat work) smoothing the concrete at our front door stoop....Down the side of the house you can see three of the other four additional sets of forms that they filled with concrete today..The house has a total of 5 exterior doors and one roll up garage door...All of them now have concrete steps with salt textured finish....We have a front entrance garden planned that will incorporate a concrete wall and more concrete work.....If the city makes us put in a sidewalk to pass final inspection I guess Mike will be laying down temporary pavers next weekend....

Mike and Jeff's New House

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