Final walk through today! This is it!

Big news - SOD!  If you click on the pictures you can scroll through them!

Yes okay now it looks like a house :)  We passed our final city inspection and brought in our own 3rd party inspector early this week.  Our builder then walked through the house and anything we weren't 100% happy with they tagged to fix.

I made them replace one of the tiles in my backsplash because it seemed darker than all of the other tiles around it!  They said that was perfectly fine.  I also had them replace one of my oil rubbed bronze door handles because it had a scratch on it.  We taped the house up pretty good for final texture/paint finish up.  They flushed the lines to my bathtub, replaced the mirror in my bathroom due to a scratch and redid the calking a few places on the outside.  Due to the recent rains not everything was drying as well as it should!

Either way, I can't say enough positive things about the construction manager in this part of the process.  Anything we weren't happy with was taken care of 100% and very quickly.

The cleaners are in today to do a final clean of my floors and windows and to polish cabinets.  My granite was polished yesterday.  Everything sparkles!

Front of the house

House at Night

Back Porch Across

Master Bath

Custom Stone Fireplace

Kitchen with Oven and Range

Up close of Granite

Close up of granite with under cabinet lighting

Family room blinds closed

Family Room blinds open

Island view showing back yard

Back Yard tree - Red Oak

Master Bedroom Outside View

Master Bedroom

Close up master Bedroom View

Master Bath

Master Bath Opposite side

Dining Room

Study

Powder Bath

Second Bedroom 1

Second Bedroom 2

Second Bathroom

Laundry

EntryWay

Entryway flowers

Front of House

Upstairs Bedroom

Upstairs Gameroom

Master Closet

Bedroom 3/Den

And then the Rain Comes!

With the flooding Austin has received the last two weekends in a row, there has been no way to regrade our yard, let alone get sod put in.  We were basically 1 day away from getting sod cut when the downpour began.  Now the ground is too wet to cut and the dirt is too soggy to regrade!  Alas!

Our builder has approval from the city to close without sod and put it in afterwards.

We are marching towards a closing date of this Friday - if everything aligns!  Our power was to be turned on last Friday but the crazy weather this weekend prevented that from happening.   Power got turned on today a few hours ago!

Our 3rd party inspection is scheduled for this afternoon.  I'm sure he's going to find more than he normally would just due to the fact that the power was just turned on so nothing has been able to be tested yet.  Our AC unit hasn't been started up yet and none of the appliances have been tested.  So we'll see how it goes. We will have a lot of 'we know about that' on the list.

Our walk through with the builder is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.  He's hoping to get a lot of our list knocked out in the next 2 days.

Right now, we found a nick in one of the cabinets so a drawer will be replaced, we have a fan not working in one of the bathrooms and a light not working outside.  The electrical contractor was there when we left so hopefully those will be fixed in a short order.

As blinds were being installed