If "final inspection pending" and "move-in week" sounds dichotomous and stress inducing, it's because it is. We've finally met all the township requirements for final inspection, which is scheduled for Tuesday morning. We have the moving company booked for Thursday, so as long as the inspection doesn't turn up with anything, we're good for moving in. I'm not sure what will happen if something is found, and if we'll get a conditional approval so we can still move in. All the paint touch ups have been completed this week, but there are still a few tape marks on the wall denoting something, so I'm not sure what's going on with that. Everything else looks great in the house. A cleaner was cleaning on the Sunday that we visited this week and will also be there on Monday so the house will be clean from top to bottom.
Besides the door stops, everything is completed in the house. The fireplace installers came last week to install the last of the brick facade and fix the pieces already installed. They cleaned fingerprints of the second floor fireplace glass and verified all the installations. The greatroom fireplace looks excellent with all the brick pieces in as it finishes the illusion that there's no glass in there.
The Robern medicine cabinets were installed in the master bathroom. They have a dim LED night light on the bottom edge that's supposed to be switch controllable, but I have to ask Mike where the switch is. They both open to the left and the clean design really compliments the modern appearance of our vanity.
The inside has a mirror on the back of the door as well as a mirrored back, so it's like there are three mirrors in one. There are magnetic sections on the edge of the mirrored door that can accept accessories, like a magnifying mirror. There's also a magnitic section on the left side of the strip to store small tools, like nail clippers and tweezers. It came with two accessories, a general holder for things like glasses and cylindrical tools, and a razor hanger/phone holder. Since there's power inside the cabinet, you can plug in your electric toothbrush or phone charger and keep it hidden inside while it's not in use. We should be able to keep all the stuff we currently have on our countertops, inside these medicine cabinets so we can keep the counter clean.
Here they are both open. There's a switch on the lower edge of the mirror/door that activates the heating elements in the mirror to defog. There were some models that had built in TVs, but we opted against those. Other's also included built in lighting in the mirror iself, but our wall sconces should provide enough close lighting.
That's about it for this week. Next week will be a post-move-in update with a couple of days of living. I'll keep updating with any changes or installations we implement, but I think we might take a break from building to just live in the house a little. There will be lots still to implement both inside and out so I can guarantee that we'll still have updates, the frequency will be the only factor yet to determine. Moving is going to be super stressful, but at least we don't have to get everything out of the house in one run. We'll move all the big things and as many as the little things as we can, then go from there. We'll have to rehab the old house a bit to make it marketable, so we're not completely out of the construction phase, but we'll just shift our focus a bit. It never ends, does it?
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