McHugh/Gant Hangar House

Day 497 - Finally Final

Thursday, November 2 -- 105 work weeks, 496 work days, 2-1/4 years elapsed time, 400+ yards of concrete, stumbles, laughter, patience, new friends, frustration, teamwork, perseverance, trust, and vision. All of this drove the team to today--the day that the country signed off final inspection of HangarHouse at 10:40 a.m.!

We can't thank enough those who have been with us from the first days to the final hours. Without you, the vision would have never come alive.

The final inspection went fast since Jim only had to check the seven items on the list from last week. Final means that the house is safe for occupancy. Jim said that we should receive our certificate of occupancy within the next two weeks. He said that the delay didn't appear to be a problem since it didn't look like we were ready to move in :-(

We all had a few moments of relief and joking before returning to finishing the house.

Here is a "birthday" picture...

Before inspection, in a heavy rain, Dave and Rick spread more gravel to cut down on mud being tracked into the house...

We seem to have one puddle area. The forecast is for rain through Saturday. We should have a good idea of areas to fix next week...

Just as Rick and Dave finished with gravel on the south side of the driveway, the painters arrived...

Here is Richard "cutting in" the picture windows and Gary protecting the stairway before starting foyer repainting...

John made good progress on the kitchen backsplash. We might even get the range installed this weekend!

Other things that went on today -- Kelli worked more on the master shower grout and cleaned some stubbon tape residue from the tile floors, and Dave got the snow heat cable system in the north slab wired up. The cables seem to work. Dave turned on the cables for 3 hours and you can feel the difference between areas with and without cables. He still needs to set up the sensor plate, but we will wait until more construction is finished.

Ken made a shopping run to Redding. He dropped off the wood stove soapstone top for hole cutting.

The roof gutters are working great. It is nice to walk out a door without a sheet of water to duck through. The bottom two front entry steps are the only ones that get wet (or will need to be shoveled :-)