Well, we've been thrown off track a bit after the city inspector came on Thursday and found that much of the work was up to Bellingham but not Seattle code. Some of the changes are relatively minor -- for example, we need to fill every hole in every stud with a flame retardant -- while others are a pretty big deal.
Sounds like the two biggest problems are the stairs to the loft and the windows in the MIL bedrooms. Ben needs to rip out the stairs and rebuild them because they are too narrow in parts (where the staircase turns a corner). He also needs to make the bedroom egress windows taller, which means taking out a chunk of the foundation. This, in turn, means moving a bunch of the electrical downstairs, since most of the wires are currently running just under those bedroom windows.
Of course, this pushes all of the other work back. We were planning on having the insulators come in Friday and the sheetrockers start next week. Hopefully these fixes won't set us back more than a week, but I must admit the news is quite daunting.
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