Guest House Construction: Part 15

Well, the holiday's are a nice time of year but also frustrating when you're trying to build stuff.  This will be a short post because not much has happened really. A few weeks ago the roofers finished up with shingles, and then nothing.  I know that our builder has been out of town so I imagine that is the primary reason that no crews have shown up over the last couple weeks.  

When they show up, the roofers make pretty quick work of getting the house sealed up.

All finished....sort of.  They forgot to put in these things called "Air Hawks", primarily because the supply company forgot to deliver them.  They're here now, so we'll see how long it takes these guys to show back up and put them in.

The roof looks great, even if the build site doesn't.  I really should go door to door and apologize to my neighbors for how this place looks.  Fortunately, it's behind our house for the most part.

The only thing that's happened in about two weeks is that our outside doors have been delivered.  So here's where we are:

• AC guys need to come out and install two units.  They say that they can do all that in a single day.  I'll believe it when I see it.
• Electrician - we're ready for him.  He's got to wire up the entire house.  I have no idea how long this will take.
• Roofers need to come back and install the vents that weren't here when they left - not a big deal and can be done any time but no idea when that will happen.
• Cornice guys come back and install the doors that were delivered.  This includes a "builder's door" that sits in for the front door until we select one.

The only other update is that we've decided to make life unnecessarily complicated by starting on a pool.  I originally planned to wait until this thing was completed, but there's really no reason to do that, and in fact there are advantages to starting now.  Utilities for example, which are being moved and added anyway, can be done with the pool in mind if we're doing it now.  I'm meeting with different pool companies to see what they propose.  We'll see.