Carpet Installed

They installed the carpet in the upstairs and family room yesterday. The nail strips are in for the dining room and living room, but they haven't been done yet. It looks like they did a pretty good job (at least what we can see peering through the windows).

If you look closely, you can see our downdraft cooktop on top of the island. In the background you can see we have the sink and faucet in as well. The island looks to be completed. The brace is still on the oven cabinet, leading me to believe they are attempting to glue the crack on it. We'll have to see how it comes out.
This is the vent for the downdraft cooktop. I was happy to see it closes when nothing is blowing out of it, to block cold air from coming in.

The water must be turned on in the house, because the outside spicket is working! We also saw they have empty toilet boxes in the dumpster, so they must be done with the bathrooms.

Here is another picture of the wood floors. They did indeed install the correct flooring. I searched for the video of the design center... the sample they had there must have been the more expensive version of what they gave us, because it didn't have the color variations. But the sample at the design center was labeled "Builder's Choice" and that's the level we got (there is also an "ELITE" level, which has less color variation... which is probably the wood they were displaying).

The 12 SEER AC unit was installed yesterday as well. Sometime in the spring, I may need to lift it and lay some gravel under it to keep it from sinking. I saw more than a few in our neighborhood are sinking dramatically.

They brought the scaffolding over to the house across the street, which is slightly ahead of ours. Looks like they should start the stone work on the front soon over there. It pisses me off though, because the last two weeks the weather has been above 50 degrees each day and NO stonework has been done on the front of any of the four new houses. Now it's supposed to get cold tomorrow. So they'll do one of three things.... install the front stonework in the cold, not want to install it in the cold and push the closing off, or want us to move in without the stone work.

All three options are lousy. I guess we'll have to hope for a quick warm spell again. But they should have gotten the job done with the weather window we had.