The Masters House

I stopped by the house last night to see if any progress had been made over the weekend and low and behold the first story of the house had started to be framed. This was a cool development so of course I walked around in the dark to check it out (actually I had the lights from the car and a flashlight).

During my stroll I attempted to walk through the downstairs bathroom and the only water pipe in the entire foundation was sticking out of the ground in the walkway. It should have been about a foot to the right inside of the wall. With the site of that my dreams of a foundation that would never have to be cut into were dashed against the rocks (or the foundation for that matter).

I quickly dialed up and left a message for the foreman to let him know that he should take a look at it. The majority of the ways for the house were in place so you could tell which rooms were supposed to be what. The stairs had not been started yet and the first floor ceiling was not in place yet. It was really cool to see it start taking shape.

I stopped by this morning to snap a picture of the rogue water pipe and the framers were there but on a break (I was glad so I wouldn’t get hit in the head with something falling or disturb them). While I was snapping pictures there was a guy standing out by a truck in the street who looked like the boss who informed me that the tub drain was in the wrong place as well.  It wasn’t as bad because they leave a square area open in the foundation to make adjustments when putting the tub in. I quickly took a walk around the rest of the house to make sure that there weren’t any other pipes or drains sticking out of the wrong place – there weren’t.

The guy out at the truck also informed me that he had already let the foreman know when they had started on Saturday about the misplaced pipe and drain and that the process to get it fixed up was already in process. That was cool. I called and left another message with the foreman letting him know that I knew that he knew about the plumbing issues (whew, what a sentence).

Anyway, the framer boss did not think it was that big on a issues and was still determined to get the rest of the house framed even though these items needed to be fixed. I’m sure that is not such an un-common thing to happen.

I figure in another day or I should be able to walk around in both stories of our new house. Cool!

A final note – I am definitely going to be keeping an eye on the plumbing in the house for the rest of the construction. This issue had to of been caused by the plumber putting these things in the wrong place as opposed to the cement guys moving them. That’s a little scary.

Oh well nothing that cannot be fixed.

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