The house is about 99.9% complete. What's left are largely minor touchup issues (wind whistling around the front door) and the problem of lead filtering. This has taken up just about all my time, preventing me from completing editing of my next book, Armed America, and preventing me from blogging about the important issues of the day. Even though I am off work this week (my company shuts down between Christmas and New Year's Day), every spare moment has been spent dealing with house issues, or machining a new ScopeRoller product.
There was some last minute confusion about the final price of the house, because we had paid some costs to Idaho Power directly, and the builder was still showing almost $2400 as having been paid by them. The final cost came to about $267,000.
First, the filters. I mentioned that the lead filters seemed to have been clogged because we didn't have adequate prefiltering to remove fine particles. Here you can see the filters in their new state, and after just a couple of weeks of use--in a house that has not been occupied.
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I mentioned that the water, while safe to drink (at least, for a short period of time), and actually tasty, is a disgusting color without the lead filters.
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That's not all minerals. Most of the visible stuff is probably dirt that got kicked into the water tank during installation of the floats that tell the well pump whether to run or not. It looks terrible, however, especially compared to the slow, but very clean water from the lead filters.
The electrician purports to be done, but I see a few signs that he didn't finish a few phone and television cable jacks.
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Anyway, there's a water issue to be resolved in the next few days, and some grading and exterior trim painting to do when the weather improves. Otherwise, the house is complete, and livable.
We took a friend up to take a look at today when we went up to measure for drapes, and to drain the water tank (in the hopes that some of the ugliness is dirt in the tank that will just drain out).
Here's the road leading to our subdivision.
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Going up our driveway.
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The laundry room.
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The kitchen.
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A view like this almost makes doing dishes tolerable.
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The family room.
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The dining room.
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My son's room (assuming that he isn't away at college), with the "worst view in the house."
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And his bathroom.
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The living room.
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The guest bedroom.
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Guest bathroom.
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My office.
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Okay, there's still some debris to be cleaned up when the weather improves.
The master bedroom.
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And the view out the back door.
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Last house project entry.
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