Foundation is done - we think

I got the order of our appointments a little out of whack in my last post, but by the end of today, we had basically gone through them all. Everything went swimmingly.

We are below budget in both the kitchen and batchroom and in lighting. We were almost $2000 over in flooring, but someone realized that our allowance for flooring was never adjusted to accomodate the sunroom, so that about halved the overage. We will have some overage in the recessed lights, which are not part of the lighting budget but instead the electrical budget. Did you know that? Learning something?

The other place we are most likely to be over is in plumbing. We upgraded most everything there, from using "biscuit" instead of white to using "brushed chrome" instead of "chrome". We may have opportunities to save a bit and spread the savings out to the overages in the plumbing (since the kitchen estimate includes built-in sinks and the plumbing estimate included drop-in sinks) and in flooring (where we might replace tile in the laundry room with linoleum).

At the site, the rough site work is nearly done - or it may be done. It is hard to say. The trench that was dug for utilities is filled in, and we have an electrical installation in place, something the framers will need to run their saws and the like - so that's good. We're not sure the next step. Some of the foundation has been marked to be touched up, so that may be next, but really the next big thing is either the basement floor and garage floor or the beginning of framing. At the beginning of this week we were told framing would start in two weeks - which would mean Monday after next, or thereabouts (everthing is "thereabouts" it seems). We're hoping for earlier, obviously, but there's not much hoping seems to accomplish.