Building a Home in a Brand New Community – What We Didn’t Expect We have moved in. We love our new house but we are now in a community-wide limbo of development. Sure there has been some post-possession calming down for us but the neighbourhood is one big bustling construction site. Noise – There is…
Albi Custom-Built Home – Post-Possession Craziness Our New House – What a Mess Our new house is a mess. There are SO many boxes everywhere. There is still furniture to build, TV’s to mount and we don’t know where anything is! On move-in day we we’re crazy busy trying to get the essentials setup and…
Orientation Day – Green Tape Day! Albi Riverstone organizes an Orientation Day for us, a week before the date to move in. It’s a day filled with green tape. We move through the house with careful eyes trying to spot as many imperfections as we can, then stick a piece of tape on them. It…
Floors Can Be Beautiful Now that the protective covers are off we can admire our floors. They are gorgeous! Nancy and I are getting very excited to move into our brand new custom-built Albi home. No more delays. Move-in Date – Soon! We make arrangements with a Moving Contractor to come when we are ready…
Drywall – Whoo-hoo! Before the drywall was up, light was just coming in everywhere because there were no walls!! Now we can see exactly what the natural light looks like and it’s absolutely wonderful and bright! So many windows it’s going to be expensive to cover!! Once the drywall is finished we can also start to…
The Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system is a sub-discipline of mechanical engineering, based on the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Basically it’s the comfort, health and safety of the air in your house. It is an important part of your home. But for our custom-built Albi home, it is more…
Custom-built Home – Extras, Extras! Some options in a custom-built home can cost a lot more than expected! Some quotes from the builder prompted us to do some research. We decided to do some installations after and we removed them from the builder’s plans, for example, closet organizers, window coverings, and the backyard deck. But…
Custom-built Home – Stay on Top of It! Last House with Albi Estates Cody, our framer, will soon be moving out-of-province so this will be his last house with Albi Estates. He is awesome and he is highly professional at what he does. We were lucky to have him. We wish him well wherever he…
Our Albi Home – The House Takes Shape The kids never get tired of visiting the construction site. We drive up to and go around the house building every day after school. Nick loves the action, especially with all the trucks and machinery and workers and assembling going on. When the foundation wall-structure is in,…
Albi Custom-built Home – More Choices – Whew! More meetings, more choices but what about the building? Delayed…still. At this point we don’t care anymore. This is the sad thing. Weeks goes by…well months actually…sigh. We have more meetings and then finally… We Have a Hole! A year later, after the date of our deposit,…
More Selection Meetings – Saving Money is Good We do our research ahead of time before each meeting to find out what is important and what is not…what is worth the money… also where the builder is charging too much! It can happen. There are cases where getting things done, while building, can…
So Many Decisions – A Lot of Work The decisions we must make are numerous but I guess that’s what a custom-built home is all about. Nancy even has to take a few days off work to accommodate all the meetings with people who have different areas of expertise. The budget for upgrades…
