It was an exciting week. The builder's answered Christine's Christmas wish and gave her walls. They also cut the new man door into the garage, opened up the front of the house for the new front door, and poured the front steps.
It was also the week for the first serious problem of the renovation. The idea the designer pitched to us has a 16' window looking into the back yard. When they drew it up, however, the plans showed two 8' windows with a pillar between them. We pointed this out the the designer, and over all our objections she assured us this was a "minor issue" that could be dealt with during the build.
When the wall went up, surprise, surprise, there was a pillar between the two windows. Thankfully, the designer owned up to the miscommunication and they'll make it right, but now we have to go right back to engineering get a new beam designed that can span a 16' window, then the wall has to be torn apart and rebuilt. So needless to say, there's going to be a bit of a delay because of this - we just don't know how long the delay will be yet.
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