Wow … six weeks without any progress reports.  That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any progress, though things are definitely slower than we would like.   So what has happened in the last six weeks:

• The hydro was turned on which made a huge improvement, especially as the evenings rapidly started to get dark much earlier.
• Septic system installed
• Stairs installed
• Interior backing/framing completed … except for the bits we keep adding.  The kitchen ceiling was dropped to 8′, all the beams and ducts were boxed in and there is  a shelf for uplighting around the living room and dining room.
• Electrical rough-in completed and inspected … this took a lot longer than anticipated.  There is well over 1km of wire in the house and some 250 outlets, light fixtures or switches.
• Slab thoroughly dried out — once the power was on we had the Legalett construction heaters installed and running for two weeks.  Unfortunately this conincided with a heatwave in September and pushed the temperature inside well over 35C for a while.
• Plumbing rough-in completed and inspected.  After a road trip down to New York to pick up the pieces and dropping a large pile of stuff in Eric’s lap, he did a great job of sorting it all out and plumbing it together.
• Water softener installed … the well water is hard, but nowhere near as bad as our current house (22 grains vs 45)
• Upstairs heating rough-in completed, though not tested.
• HRV installed
• Rough grading completed around the back and far side of house.  We wanted to get the fill in (20 loads)  before the weather turned wet and made it impossible to get the dump truck back there.
• High speed internet is installed and working.  We went with wireless service from Xplorenet.  So far it has been OK, there are occasional drop out and ‘dead’ periods when the service stops working for a minute or so, but bandwidth is decent.
• The low voltage wiring is currently a work in progress: pulling several km’s of CAT5, speaker cables, coax, thermostat wire (zoned heating sounded good, but now there needs to be 12 thermostats in the house!)