Monday, March 17, 2008

final rough inspection

Woo hoo! Today we had our rough inspections for everything in the house. As you can guess from my opening statement, we are basically good to go for insulation, and that will hopefully go well so we can start drywall.
We had: rough electrical, plumbing, exterior lathe, shearwalls, framing and HVAC. We had only a few small things to take care of on framing, HVAC and the exterior lath. Since the inspector felt he could see this work with insulation in, he let us go ahead on insulation installation. Big sigh of relief from me & the contractors!
We were happy that we had properly fixed the shearwall hold-down (HDQ6) in the back corner in time for Friday. We had the pull test performed on Friday for the hold-downs (3 total, 1 per shearwall), so the 7/8" bolts are properly glued to the concrete, which means the shearwalls are good and the inspector didn't have any big comments on framing so the carpenter was smart to add some extra hangers for the 2x's, instead of using just A35 clips.

Now we're on to insulation and no one is too worried about that inspection. Should go OK but we'll see. We're hoping to have the inspection on Thursday but I'm not sure that we can really get all the work done in 2 days; everything seems to take at least 25% if not 50% longer than anyone estimates.

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