After trying most flooring surfaces known to man, including carpet, laminate, ceramic tile, natural stone tile, and hardwood, we decided our new custom home would have polished concrete on the main floor and stained concrete in the basement.
After extensive discussion and comparing, we chose Stewart Specialty Services to lay and polish the main floor [...]
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Building is a nightmare. At least that’s what I hear. Whenever someone learns we are building a custom home, the response is pretty predictable. Generally it’s something like:
I hope you don’t get divorced!
I’ve heard that’s more stressful than a death in the family.
You’re supposed to be done in June? You mean September, right?
Building is infamous [...]
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With the walls five block high, yesterday the crew poured cement into the hollow spaces in the aerated concrete panels. The result will be cement pillars surrounded by fibrous, insulated forms. There were two known blowouts (one pictured below) and the system used for the corners seemed inefficient and problematic. But when all was said [...]
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Finally we have something to see. A hint of the house to be. After the first construction delay followed by another construction delay followed by another lost week of aggravation we finally see action.
I could be worse. It could be raining.
Oh, wait. It is.
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Delays. Are. Aggravating.
I told you we had a construction delay. Then I told you we had another construction delay. And here we are, clean into February, and we’re still just waiting around — through weeks of nearly perfect weather — doing nothing.
Ack.
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This is not my happy face.
After learning about our first construction delay due to a rental issue, we confirmed that the panels would be delivered on January 25. The plan was that the panel company would install the basement while teaching our builder the system, so that our builder could install the remaining floors.
This morning we [...]
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This evening we got a call from E-Z Block. They are making the lightweight concrete panels that will form the structure for our home. And the have a bunch of our money — half the cost of the first set of panels. The entire build has been waiting on them since the basement was poured [...]
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