Disgusted...

Hey all! Long time no talk to! How have you all been? How are your homes? Let me know in the comments! 

Well, I'm here with some pretty upsetting news. If you've been following our blog you know that we got a defective driveway. It's basically crumbling before our eyes. We've been in the house a year and a half at this point. I can tell you that I love our house. We've had no large issues with the interior at all. Then it comes to this driveway where EVERYONE is passing the buck. If you recall we had the owner of the concrete company here to look at the disintegration. He ADMITTED to me that it was poured way too late in the season where the temps hit below freezing for ten days straight. The concrete never had a chance to set. At the end of last year we had our 10 month review where the service manager Dick stood in my kitchen and ASSURED Jim and I that the driveway would be replaced as soon as the weather broke. 

I talked to Dick in the spring and he said that we were "last on the list" but it would get done "in June". Well, here we are with no driveway while it just washes away everytime it rains. I'm at the point where I printed a rather large banner for the front of my house that says," Before you by Ryan please look at my driveway. Lots of lies in the company." They are still actively selling homes in here so I think that could get some attention. I've added some pictures for you to see for yourself. Let me know what you think of my plan! Is it good or should we skip straight to litigation? 

Spalling and pitting that extends the length of the driveway. 

The assorted cracks that have started appearing everywhere. 

Cracked walkway leading into the house. This has been cracked since a week after we moved in. 

A better view of the pitting.

At the downspout where the driveway is literally washing away each time it rains. 

What do you all in the blog world think we should do? 

10 months in!!

What is up with all of you Ryan home builders?!? I feel like I haven't been here in forever. When you move in its such a whirlwind. I just wanted to blog to touch base as well as keep a record for us!

So how's your decorating? I am 95% complete now. There are a few more things I need for the walls. I also want to print some canvas prints of family photos for decor too. Then a few more just decorative things. I can't find anything that I really love unless it costs thousands so I think I need to hit the lotto! Haha. 

So I asked for coffered ceilings in the dining room for Christmas. LOVE THESE and it's something Jim can do. We might even carry them into the living room too. Fancy, right? I will be sure to update if I get them for the holidays! 

We also had a deck built. People, I can not stress enough that you need to hire a quality contractor cause we were so fooled. We hired a company to do our fence which we were super pleased with. I told Jim that we should get a quote from them for a cedar deck. Well it was in our budget so we decided to go ahead. I've never been so frustrated(well encrypt for with a certain SR here) with a company in my life. They misrepresented that they were the ones who would be doing the work when it was sub contracted out to a different company. Well that company had ZERO pride in work. I could keep going on and on about how crappy they really were but I don't want to get mad again. We ended up with a substantial discount due to their negligence while Jim has been redoing it over the past three weekends. He's currently staining it so that's why it's half one color. I will post pics when it is done! 

This is also something else I asked for. The Naples really has the saddest little "mud entry" so I want to do a built in like this. One project at a time, one at a time... Lol. 

As far as the house goes it's settling. Not too bad but a good amount of nail pops and cracks. We haven't scheduled our 12 month yet so that should get resolved then. We are STILL waiting on this driveway to get rectified. The service manager assured us it would be in the fall but here's fall and we are still waiting. We also still have siding issues. A lot of homes in here do. We are a Hardie board community and it seems they didn't know how to install it. It's very windy so you can hear them flap in the wind. I've been trying to stay on top of the SM to get it taken care of but I think the entire house needs to be face nailed. 

So what's going on with all of your homes? Let me know! I've missed you all! 

It's a good Friday

Well most of the windows are in and the roof fully up and sheathed. Not to be a broken record, but we like what we are seeing progress wise. I also really like our roof line. I might be the oddball here, but I like simple, clean rooflines. My dad did roofing on the side and I've done one or 2 myself. I feel less valleys, no decorative dormers, etc. makes for less areas for there to be leaks and other issues. 

Our subdivision is awesome!

Not much to post on reference our house, but great things to say about the neighbors. We have met many of them and went to a birthday party today. Everyone is great and was cool to hear that some have read our blog. Even talked to a nice couple that built with Ryan but in a different subdivision. Our daughter is quite energetic so we weren't able to talk to some people as much as we would have liked. But almost everyone had young children so it was very nice. At the end of the night our daughter was covered in chocolate, mud and soda...I think see had a good time. Lol. 

On a side note, earlier in the day we saw a house under construction and wouldn't you know it, saw several delivered windows were broken. Hard to tell in the picture but they're broken. Across a huge company, this kind of damage has to add up. 

We are backfilled and water logged

We are backfilled and passed Village inspection. Due to the rain our foundation is a swimming pool. Our PM called and said that on:

Tue: 3 piece roughin will go in. 

Wed/Thu: concrete poured and sewer and water tie ins connected. 

Fri: prep for framing. 

Mon: framing starts weather permitting. 

So at least progress is being made. I also researched the waterproofing that was used (Delta MS) and the reviews on it look good, so glad to see good products being used. 

Waterproofed and downpours

Waterproofing is on. Not like we'll know if it works because we're having torrential downpours. It's serving as more of a swimming pool liner. This picture was taken in between deluges. 

 

Foundation

Foundation is poured. Looks like we fortunately got it ahead of some bad weather. If it rains the way the news claims, we'll have an expensive inground pool. 

Meeting Regional VP and found our Morning Room table.

Going to be a busy day. Later today meeting with the Regional VP to discuss some issues we're having and to see how they'll handle it. We'll update later. 

Also going to order our custom handmade table for the Morning Room. There's a custom furniture maker not far from us that does amazing work that doesn't cost much more than regular stores. We'll be going with this design stained just a tad darker with our family name engraved. The table should become a family heirloom. It's made of solid Hickory and is made like old world craftsman. 

We also have forms for the footers. Hopefully they'll pour today.