Rehab Project Week #3

Wow, that permit issue really messed up our timeline.  Now, instead of tearing out the wall, moving it over a couple of feet and finishing off the kitchen area along with the rest of the house we’ve had to do this project in sections.  The front half of the house was finished off as we waited on the permit issue to resolve.  Then we lost almost a week waiting on a set of stamped drawings.  Now we’re able to get going again so the second wall was torn down, the new wall is up and now…yep…we wait for the inspection.  Once we get the wall and the electrical rough in inspected we can go ahead and cover it up.  Then…yep…you guessed it, another inspection.  Once that’s done though we should be able to pretty much rip and run. 

Hopefully the first inspection will happen tomorrow or Thursday and then we can cover things up and, with any luck, get our final inspection on Monday or Tuesday of next week.  If not for needing a permit to tear out two non-load bearing walls, that were built by the previous homeowner anyway, we would probably be finished with this house.  Now we’re going to be about two or three weeks over our original timeline. 

And they wonder why people don’t want to pull permits.  I don’t have any photos of the new wall yet, it was a very long Labor Day weekend and I didn’t make it over to the project house.  Hopefully we’ll have a chance to get over there tomorrow with a camera.  Once we have some decent photos I’ll update once again.