Some minor issues

The past couple days - particularly today - have seen some minor issues crop up to cause some consternation. The plumbers, originally scheduled for last week and pushed out by Ben so that we could prepare more, bailed out on Monday and only ended up working a half day today. Ben thinks we should still be set for our first draw inspection either this Friday or Monday of next week, which will include most of the plumbing, most (if not all) of the framing, and half of the demolition/debris removal.

With the arrival of the plumbers we were able to start getting into the nitty-gritty of how everything is going to go together... which, of course, is where the real headaches begin. Apparently, it is illegal to have your house's hot air from the water heater ejected directly at knee height of anyone walking by. So, it looks like the original dual water heaters called for in the plans aren't going to work. Instead we will get one heater for the whole house. This, however, has the domino effect of causing us to have less room in our laundry room closet, because we now need to put the heater there. Other minor modifications for air ducts and the like have trimmed down other closet space as well. In addition, as we wandered through the house today with Ben to review the progress, Cindy noted that the master bathroom doesn't currently have a place for a mirror above the sink (we are going with one instead of two now to increase counter space and cabinet area), which will need to be figured out.

Excepting those slight catches and inconveniences, everything seems to be coming together, and Ben said that the plumbers all mentioned they really liked the house.