Pre-con

We had our pre-construction (or "pre-con") meeting today. In our case, the meeting was woefully misnamed, as construction has been ongoing for over a month now. Anyway, we met our senior builder and went over our blueprints with him, and also confirmed our list of upgrades (just to make sure nothing got lost from the list on the way from the design center, I guess). It was a neat opportunity to get more information about the construction of our house, and meeting our builder (who was great) gave us a lot of confidence that the final product will be awesome.

May 17 photo

Second floor is up:

May 10 photo

They've laid the second floor down, so I suspect the walls for that will go up this week. Here's another cell phone picture I took today:



We were at the site because Mattamy wanted us to sign an amendment to our sales agreement. They've changed the way they're doing the foundation of the urban townhomes. They don't have basements, so the urbans that were originally built had shallow foundations with a slab, but the ones they're building now have deeper foundations which are similiar to the foundations on the singles (obviously I'm not good with the technical terms, and I don't have the amendment in front of me). We still won't have a basement, but now we can plant shrubs and plants if we want.