Well, at 830 this morning, I had to wonderful young men show up at the house, followed about 5 minutes later by a slightly-older-than-me gentleman. The first 2 were plumbers and the 3rd was the home inspector. They were here because I needed a peppermint test done to see if there were any leaks in the unpermitted (therefore illegal) upstairs bathroom that the previous owners had put it. Instead of going on the roof, the went to the exhaust pipe through the attic (which was funny to me because that meant that they had to climb into DSs "superhero fort" and squeeze up through the ceiling there..lol), but it didn't take as long and wasn't as hazardous to them.
Well, there was NO peppermint smell, which means NO leaks!!! The bathroom passed inspection, as did the mechanical for the second story and the electrical for the second story!!! All I have to do now to complete the final inspections for the 2nd story of the house (where all the bedrooms are and such) is have the wall that the house and garage share covered in fire-code sheet-rock (5/8" thick).
To have the garage pass inspection, I need to have a piece of LVL installed because the header for the garage door isn't strong enough to support extended weight from the bonus room and the roof - had contractors for that come in as the plumbers were leaving. They will be getting an estimate to me as soon as they can. Once that is installed, I have to have the strucutural engineer back out to make sure it was done correctly and he will notify the home inspector that everything is up to code in the garage (strucuturally at least). The last thing i need is an electrician to come out and hook of the wiring for the garage and bonus room. We have wire run to outlets and the oulets placed where we want them, but we can't connect it to the house wiring...that should be done sometime in the next couple of weeks.
We are planning on spending Thanksgiving break working on getting the bonus room insulated and sheetrocked and at least get the subfloor finished and the door from the MBR to the bonus room installed...hubby thinks 3 days should take care of all that. Then I finally get to claim the nook as the reading area and get all of his work stuff into it's own space!!
WooHoo!!
Larisa
P.S. We have a freeze on the lawsuit - it went from being where we had a good chance to win to us having a very slim chance if any chance at all....AFTER we closed 3 investments to the tune of $6K!!