Lot Inspection and Pre-Construction Meeting

Lot Inspection and Pre-Construction Meeting

We started the day off by meeting out at our lot at 8am, when we got there we met our construction manager Curt. He walked around the lot and took some height measurements of the land, also checked for the sewage, water, and gas hookups.

After we finished at the lot we went to McDonalds to sit down and talk about the process, go over the house plans, discuss some of the items that we decided to do ourselves, and went through where the utilities would enter the house from based on the positioning of the house. Towards the end we talked with Curt about getting us some quotes for the PPI items we had to complete and mentioned that we would like to have a weekly status update on the progress of the house, he said that wasn't an issue and at the beginning that would be fine but as the process moves forwards our calls and talks may be more frequent which I am excited about as I want to be in close communication throughout the process.

After sitting down and talking with Curt for an hour or two we had to run to the Cygent office and run through our final Pre-Construction Meeting. When we got to the office we met Keri who went through all of the details on our house line by line and item by item. She had all of the CAD Drawings for our house so this is where we started, we went through all of the outdoor details such as where the electric box, AC, and water spigots would go on the exterior of the house. Once we finished on the exterior we went through each level of the house, basement, first floor, then finally second floor. We pretty much kept everything the same as far as positioning except for the furnace we wanted it moved slightly so it wouldn't affect our future finished basement plans. Other than that we basically stuck with our initial plans. Once we had finished going through each story we went line by line through the extra items we had added to the house, we kept everything the same as far as the add-ons. Finally after all of that was finished we went back to the show room and pulled out all of our choices which we had chose during our color meetings and verified that we had not changed our minds. The one thing we did change was our carpet, we decided to go with a tier 3 carpet instead of the original level 1 choice, we also decided to upgrade the ceiling texture. Once we finally finished going through all of the choice we were finally given our dig date.

The date we were given was Dec 15th!!!

We were beyond excited, but we also had a lot of things to complete between the pre-construction meeting and our dig date. Below is a list of some of the items we had to have finished:

1. Close on the loan
2. Stake out the property
3. Install Temp electric
4. Install Construction Drive
5. Get all building permits

Alot of items to complete within a 3 week period.

Here are the interior floor plan drawings.