Just got a “congratulatory” letter from Washington Federal. In part, it says: It’s hard to believe the construction phase of your new home should be rapidly approaching the finishing stages. Key words: should be. In other words, since we’ve given you more than ample time to finish building your freaking house, if you’re not ready [...]
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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve received a number of emails asking when we are going to move in. All I can say is that I wish I knew! After moving out of the rental, we’ve just been hanging around my dad’s house with minimal supplies trying to keep our lives in order living [...]
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My builder got a phone call from a lighting wholesaler. He was distraught when he found — after reading this blog — that I was purchasing a good portion of my lighting online. He said we were making a big mistake. His response was not unlike that of the plumbing wholesaler who learned I was [...]
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We’ve got stucco going up on the exterior of our home and the interior as well. While exterior stucco is pretty common around here, we’re also having stucco applied to the interior side of the exterior walls. This is actually less expensive than sheetrock, because the stucco adhere directly to the blocks, without all the [...]
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The roof trusses are going on! Next to the first shovelful of dirt from the backhoe, this is the most exciting thing going. With the roof on the entire house takes shape.
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Today the crew poured the large front porch. There are also two stoops, one for the front door and one for the office door. There will be a few steps from the front walk to the porch. We want to minimize those at it makes access more difficult. There was a problem with the front [...]
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In 1992, we concocted a lease-to-own deal with a moderately desperate homeowner for our first home. In June 1997, we signed a contract with a builder for our second home. They called it “semi-custom,” which really meant, you pick one of the three models that will fit on one of these four lots, then you [...]
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Whenever we are building, we make it a habit to attend the Parade of Homes in both Utah and Salt Lake counties. I can’t get enough of it. Sam was overdosed about three years back. But it was at the Parade that we made a remarkable discovery. Remarkable, at least, for custom home builders who [...]
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