We have a house closing date!

The house is looking more and more complete on the inside, and now it looks like we’ll be closing on the house the second week of May, a little sooner than originally expected.

There’s still a lot of details left (plumbing, touch up painting, etc) as well as landscaping, but as of today it looks like most of the major things are in.

Up in the attic, there’s an additional layer of blown insulation covering the fibreglass batt insulation. Looks pretty good. Seems like the layer of blown insulation should be thicker, but that’s just based on what I’ve seen from the old house where I think almost all the insulation was blown. I’m sure whatever is there is probably enough.

Attic insulation
Attic insulation

There’s no insulation over the garage part, which isn’t unexpected. Most of the garage will end up being workspace, so I think if it ends up being too uncomfortable to work in, it would be easy enough for me to add a layer or two of batt insulation to the space above the garage.

Over the garage
Over the garage

The rest of the house is looking pretty good. All the rooms have carpet in them, and the wood floors look pretty good. The wood floors are glued to the slab, so if I ever decide to replace them, it’s going to be a pretty big job.

Carpet in the master bedroom
Carpet in the master bedroom
Wood flooring
Some of the wood flooring visible next to the kitchen island

The appliance garage we opted for got installed in the corner. It takes up some counter space, but will give us a place to tuck things away when they’re not being used. One of the outlets in the kitchen even has two USB charging ports!

USB charging outlets
USB charging outlets
Appliance garage
Appliance garage

Now that we have a closing date, this will kick off a lot of things on the TODO list. The next few months are going to be pretty busy.

Countertops in the house

Last week the new house got the kitchen counters installed, and the shower in the master bath got tiled. Some parts of the house also got the vinyl flooring put in.

Yesterday the tile backsplash got put on the wall, and it looks like some outlets were installed too.

Tile backsplash in the kitchen
Tile backsplash in the kitchen

More progress!

House progress

Lots of progress on the house since the last update. Drywall went up and got sprayed with primer. Cabinets were installed and trim was installed over the last couple of weeks. Painting is scheduled to happen this week.

Now we can see what all the rooms look like, how they feel, and think about where furniture will go.

Insulated house

Siding went up around the house a couple weeks ago, and now some of the insulation is in.

New house has siding
New house has siding

The spaces in the exterior walls have insulation stuffed in them. Even some of the interior walls got some insulation, although not all of them. Not sure why that is.

We were able to get the conduit for the coax moved to a slightly different location close to where the electrical meter will be located. It was originally put behind the where the AC unit was going to go, but after going there to have a look, we decided to have it moved. The guys doing the structural wiring were nice enough to move it for us, and it will also make for a slightly shorter run of coax.

Conduit running up through the garage wall
Conduit running up through the garage wall
Conduit coming outside the house
Conduit coming outside the house

The conduit will get trimmed and enclosed in a weather-proof box mounted on the side of the house. The plan is to have the coax terminate at a grounded bus inside the box, and then have more coax connect there going out to the antenna. I’ll have the flexibility to add more connections and run some additional coax if necessary.

Soon the drywalling will start and then more insulation.

Mah house is under contract!

Sold!

In the space of 49 hours, our house went from listed on the market to signed contract from a buyer.

Holy crap.

We weren’t expecting this to happen quite so quickly. I was expecting a couple of weeks, maybe a month or so. Not 2 freaking days!

There were 9 showings over 3 days and according to our realtor, three potentially interested buyers.

There’s still a bunch of things that need to happen before everything is final but if everything goes smoothly, we’ll be closed and done with the house next month.

That will be a huge relief and we’ll be able to focus on the new house a lot sooner.

Woohoo!

BTW, if you’re looking for a realtor that’s easy to work with, talk to Melanie. She’s pretty awesome.