So our Great Room finally has all it’s windows installed. This has been a long time coming. I must admit the view from inside is pretty stunning!
But unfortunately the ongoing saga with other other missing window/door order continues. We are still missing two sets of double sliding doors (one for the dining room and the other for the master bedroom) and our front door. All of these were damaged during shipping and never even made it to us. We were just informed that they won’t have these all repaired and delivered to us until Dec 7th. So they were damaged around Oct 22 and the best they can do is another 7 weeks to get them repaired and to us. Totally ridiculous, and believe me, we are being very vocal about our unhappiness with the situation, but they just continue to drag this whole thing out. We just did a calculation today, from the date we paid for and placed our order it will be 15.5 weeks until we have everything. That is 4 months!!! Totally unacceptable and beyond belief. Never deal with Jeld-Wen unless you have extremely long timelines.
Our builder has completed rectifying all the deficiencies found by the inspector last week. The inspector was supposed to show up today to re-inspect, but as of now, he hasn’t showed up yet. I believe we are all set though, to conditionally pass the inspection. The condition will be the installation of the missing sliding doors and front door.
So we are expecting the insulation guys on site next week some time and they estimate it may only take 3 days to do all the insulation, so if all goes really well, we may have a totally insulated house by the end of next week.
I asked our builder what we can do to deal with the delay of the sliders and door, so that we don’t delay the drywallers and end up living in the trailer until sometime in January. He suggests (he says he has done something similar on another build), that we frame in for a ‘junk’ door in the front. He has an old steel door we can borrow. This way the entry will be sealed off and have a usable door. Then where the double sliders go, we will seal it up with sheathing and plastic, to keep the weather out and keep the house secure. That way we can heat the house and continue with the drywalling until eveything arrives. I’m so relieved to hear we have an option to keep things moving forward. Yay!!!
On the Aron eye front, he will be heading back to Calgary in the next couple weeks. He has to have another follow-up with the Dr. who just did his eye surgery and they are going to try and get him in with a cornea specialist right away. So it looks like things may be moving along faster than either of us expected. If at all possible I will try and come out with Aron this trip, but we’ll see how the appointments line up with my work schedule.