Pre-Construction

I'm a little (okay a lot) late on this post but now that we're literally only a few days away from breaking ground, I thought it was the perfect time to share how our pre-construction meeting went.

Two weeks ago, Kenny and I went to the model home and met our project manager, Kyle, for the first time. We sat down with him and our sales rep to go over how the process is going to work once the actual construction begins. They call this meeting the "handing over" from sales to production so the majority of our contact now will be with the PM instead of our sales rep.


We spent the majority of the meeting going over our master selection list and verifying that everything we had chosen was listed and that everything that was listed was correct. The only change we ended up making was moving some recessed lighting. Because we opted to have pre-wiring put in for pendant lights over the kitchen island, it relocated the recessed lights that typically would have been there. We decided to move those extra lights into the living room which we're going to turn into an office. We were kind of disappointed that we weren't able to add an additional overhead light in the family room but since everything is already finalized, it just wasn't possible. We also hit a bit of a snag because our flooring selections hadn't been sent over from the flooring company but we were able to get that cleared up the next day.

We only had a few questions and aside from not being able to add an additional light in the family room, all of the answers we got were good news (tons of outlets all over the house, lights in the unfinished basement, two windows in the master bedroom, garage door opener) .

The PM also went over in detail all the specifics of the HVAC system, the insulation and the way certain things will be done but to be honest, I don't remember a whole lot of that construction jargon. He also showed us the master blueprint plans for the house which was really cool to see. I want to try to get a copy of the plan for the front of the house and frame it and put it inside once the house is complete.

Our next meeting with the PM will be our pre-drywall meeting about 3-4 weeks after the construction actually begins, which if everything stays on schedule, will be this week! Stay tuned!