Still Waiting

My last blog post about the house was September 8 and I estimated at least two weeks more of work.  It's nearly 7 weeks after that.  The builder is now telling us the first week in November for the house to be finished.  The original estimate was the middle of September.  Assuming it actually is the first week in November the estimate will be off by 10 weeks.  Needless to say we are very frustrated with all of the delays.    

My in-laws were scheduled to come back from Minnesota on 18 October.  They could not delay this because of some medical appointments that could not be re-scheduled.  For practical purposes we didn't have a final end date when they left MN so it would be hard to delay without knowing how long the delay was going to be anyway.   They arrived as scheduled and we found alternative housing for a few days.  They've since left town again and will be staying with some friends and then going to visit my wife's uncle.     They are due back here in 10 days, that of course assumes the builder is correct on his estimate.  

I'm not planning on posting any more pictures until the house is finished.  The outside hasn't visibly changed much and until the lights are on upstairs with all the drywall hung it is too dark to get decent pictures.

For the builder to be correct and be finished by next week he still needs to:

1. Trim the upstairs - doors, baseboard etc
2. Paint the upstairs
3. Install all the bathroom fixtures upstairs
4. Install all the electrical fixtures upstairs
5. Install all the flooring upstairs and down
6. Install the heat pumps and finish HVAC under the house
7. Finish plumbing under the house
8. Finish electrical - there are lots of wires sticking out of the breaker panel 
9. Re-install all the toilets downstairs
10. Do final grading

Trim installation was supposed to start yesterday. It hadn't.  I also don't know when the HVAC, etc is scheduled for, not that it matters since it will most likely be late anyway.