Week 36, 37, 38 : More Siding and a small potato farm

Additional siding has gone up these few weeks. Meanwhile our missing electrician has finally appeared on the video finishing some exterior lighting work. However none of us can reach him via phone, email or mail. It's getting really worrisome as he's a very good electrician and we would ideally like to keep him on the project.
Our Potato farm is coming along. We also planted watermelon, carrots and beets.

Week 35: Some squatters

More siding was put up this week. The front facade is almost done.
We found some unwelcome squatters in our master bedroom. Three birds nest and a wasp hive in the early stages of building.

Week 33 and 34 : More Siding / looking like a real home

These 2 weeks have been exciting, more siding has gone up and the feeling is more like a home. The corrugated part looks better than I would imagine. We are glad we went with the white color instead of the aluminum one. Our house is definately the longest LV home combination out there.
On a side note, we are growing some Potatoes on the land for the first time. Last weekend we planted the first batch. To our surprise we found 3 spuds have been dug up. Although whatever small vermin that did it didn't even eat it. Spoiled animals! what's wrong with a juicy potato? In any case, we planted another batch and hopefully that vermin won't come back. We really need a fence around the plantings. The soil is extra hard, too many rocks and weeds, it's hard labor to till the soil.

Week 31 and 32: Siding! and the end of Erosion

This was a exciting week as the first of the sidings have gone up. Summer like weather helped aid this process.
Also noteworthy is the end of the town erosion summons. We had to hire a landscape company to finish off the rest of the slope to free up Matt and Adam to work on the house.
Luckily the owner of the company were friends with the town inspector and the summons is off the table...hopefully for ever. Glad to put this costly episode behind us.

Week 30: A very long trench Indeed

Our trench was over 500 feet long from the road. This made it a challenge to get the utilities companies to come out with the right equipment. Time Warner only provides 250 feet of cable and the rest has to be paid for. Luckily Verizon didn't charge extra, however it did take them coming up twice to get the wire length right.
The ground water above the well seems to be coming out non-stop, strange how there is so much ground water, but when we do the drill down, it's only at 1.5 gallons at minute.

Week 29: Trench and 2nd polishing of floors

This week was the inspection of the erosion control measures we were supposed to put in place. On friday 3/19, the town inspector came along with the main sub division owner. We got the March 23rd court appearance canceled, however, we are still lacking some additional work that needs to be done. I'm not sure what else, but we are supposed to get a letter detailing additional work to be done.
The trench was dug to put in the well water, tel, cable and electrical lines. it's a massive trench about 500 feet long. Bit unbelievable when you think about it.
The floor polisher returned to sand down the floor bit more, now it looks more uniform and you see the veins of the concrete which is quite nice.

Week 27 & 28: Exterior Insulation

Weather has finally started to turn for the better. We enjoyed a week in the 40's and 50's for a change. Matt and Adam had a chance to put in the exterior insulation and get the house wrapped.
The concrete floors are sealed and prepared for final polishing.
We're about to put in the deposit for the windows. Arcadia is having issues with the spec of our front door. We've decided to do an expansive front door running the entire width of the front entrance, which is about 5 feet wide by 7 feet high (we wanted 9 feet originally, but I don't think the engineers are going to go for that). Arcadia refuses to make the front door since they can't guarantee it due to the weight of wide door. Checking with 1 more supplier before we give up.