Our Home Building Journey with Wayne Homes in Northwest Ohio

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Insulation and Basement Floor Complete!

Insulation and Basement Floor Complete!

Sorry I have gotten a bit behind, I have been going straight to the house after work insulating the garage and running Ethernet cable throughout the house every day. I am going to catch up on what has happened since last Thursday and today.

Thursday the Insulation contractors came over to the house and completely insulated the entire garage except for the basement insulation which is the home owner’s responsibility. Although at this point I have gone ahead and insulated the Garage myself which wasn't too bad and can be done easily if you are willing to take the time and hang all of the insulation yourself, I think it ended up taking me about 3-4 hours and I did everything by myself which is why it took me so long... if I had another person I probably could have knocked this out in an hour or two at max.

They also poured the basement floor and when I got home from work they were still working on the finish of the floor. It's kind of hard to see because i wasnt able to walk on the floor yet, but the concrete looks really good and they are sloping to the sump pump pit which is nice.

Here are some of the pictures i had

Garage Insulation

Kitchen Insulation

MBR Wall Insulation

MBR Ceiling Insulation

Kids Room Insulation

Above Great room Insulation

Basement Floor

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Plumbing Day 2

They finished up most of the plumbing today. They have all of the septic pipe ran and they have the PEX pipe ran up to where the vanities, toilets, and bathtubs will be. It looks like they ran PEX throughout the house, which confused me a little bit because when I asked to use PEX they told me it was an $800 upgrade which I did not want to pay for... Anyways, they also plumbed in the bathroom in the basement and set the crock for the basement plumbing.

They will be insulating all of the exterior walls and pouring the basement floor tomorrow. The plan is to start dry walling next week. I will be running my Ethernet and putting up my insulation in the garage before they start dry walling next week.

Here are the pictures of the plumbing that happened in Day 2

Plumbing going upstairs for bathroom

Plumbing in Foyer for upstairs bathroom

Plumbing for the Master Bathroom Double Vanity

Toilet Plumbing

Water Line for fridgerator

Water/Plumbing for Washer

Back side of the sub which has been set in place

Plumbing for upstairs Vanity

Plumbing for main sewage line

Another pic of the sewage line in the basement

Plumbing for the future bathroom in the basement

Sump Pump with Plumbing

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Roof/Plumbing/Electrical/Stone for Basement

A lot of work was done today, they completed the roof and electrical.They put stones in the basement, and started on plumbing!

We met with the Electrician this morning at 8:15am to do a walk through and change any outlets or add any cable runs that we wanted. We had originally budgeted about $750 for extra electrical that we wanted to add later, let’s just say we doubled that after everything was said and done... Wayne Homes includes 2 cable runs and 2 land line runs, we decided not to use the land line runs and substituted that for cable which was no extra cost. We added a bunch of can lights, electric outlets for T.V's that we are hanging on the wall, lighting for above the kitchen cabinets, wiring for a disposal, and a couple of outlets in the garage. When we were walking through the house I was shocked at how many people were working in the house. They had 4-5 people running wire throughout the house and they were moving quickly!

As we were leaving from our electrical walk through the roofers showed up and started shingling. They had 3 guys up on the roof shingling different sides of the roof and they looked to be moving fast, I was really impressed with the amount of people on the site at once and how well everyone was working in their own areas.

When I got off work, we stopped by the house and the guys had just finished spreading more stone down in the basement and when I talked to them they said they will be back on Thursday to pour the concrete in the basement, front porch, and the basement! During the walk through we noticed that the bathtubs had been moved into place and there had been some pipping ran into the tub area which was a good surprise.

Bathtub pic

Roof on the back of the house

Roof over the garage

Electrical Pics

Can Lights

Contractor running electric

Kitchen Outlets

Huge Switch Panel

Main Electric run

Electric Panel

Bathroom Vent

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Framing Day 7 - Framing Complete!

Today the crew finished up the Framing, all of the windows and doors are now framed in, including the garage door which looks really cool! The basement stair well has been completed. When i got there the basement was tarped off and i could hear a propane heater running down there, not sure what they are planning to do but i could feel the heat when i lifted up the tarp to see the stair well so it should be nice and cozy in the basement tomorrow morning considering its supposed to be 9 degrees F tomorrow.

Throughout the week the house had been a mess with scrap wood and saw dust all over. When i walked through the house tonight it was spotless! I was really impressed with how clean the construction site was. I did notice that there were some larger gaps in some of the sheathing than i was anticipating, I know that they come back and caulk all of the joints but some of these cracks looked like they needed more than just caulk. I am going to talk to Curt to see what the plans are regarding these cracks as energy efficiency was a huge reason we went with new construction.

Lessons Learned - When we went through our final review we never really thought about the windows and after going through an open house of another cedar hill we wanted to get bigger windows in the living room, by the time i told curt all of the supplies had been ordered and it was going to cost way more than it would have if we did it up front... On that point, my suggestion would be to make sure you can walk through the same house which you are planning on building, when we went through the open house we could actually see the house and we wanted to change alot of things, luckily alot of those were removing walls or closets and moving the attic access so it wasn't that big of a deal but i think if we didn't go through that open house there would have been a couple of things we wouldn't have liked when the house was built.

Enough typing - here are some of the pictures, sorry, it was dark when i got to the house

Front of the house! Cant wait for the Siding!!