Days 21, 22 and 23: Yet Another Hitch (Sigh)

The inspectors were scheduled to make a return trip to the house today, to approve the rough plumbing (as seen above, the plumbing for our second bathroom, underneath our current bedroom window). The workers burned the midnight oil on Wednesday -- well, they stayed until 8 or so -- to get much of it done.

But -- sigh -- speaking of inspectors, a new wrinkle has arisen. The inspector isn't letting us build the garage just yet. He wants to see plans -- and there aren't any. Architect Joseph didn't draw any, since it was a simple move and expand the garage job. Uh, no. Maria and I thought everything had already been squared away once the plans had been approved. Uh, no. Was it a miscommunication? I dunno -- but probably. Now, the plan is this: I'm heading early tomorrow to hopefully meet with the inspector and ask if some details would do, since it'd be redundant to draw up a whole new, separate set of plans. This is one job, afterall. Hopefully he'll take pity. Otherwise, we have to go to Plan B: Either demand Joseph draw up some plans... or we do it ourselves.

Meanwhile, this ain't pretty -- but luckily, as part of our $5,000 extra garage arrangement with Contractor Menny, we're getting replacement wood for the back of the house. Look at this edge, also near our bedroom window (where the water heater was until recently):



I guess 80 years of termites will do that to a house. Question is, wonder how bad the rest of the house would be if we stripped everything off.

The construction hasn't been dramatic over the past two days, but here are more shots of the foundation and floor joints: