Blog Entries tagged 'progress'

Finally ready to show the Carroll Street house

steve@phase2homes.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0100

After several delays and frustrations getting our contractors schedules in line, we are pleased to announce that we will finally be ready to show the Carroll Street house this coming Saturday, September 20th. The open house will be from 11am till 4pm. We'll be demonstrating the numerous features of the house as well as serving some light appetizers and drinks. Make sure you come by and take a look at the finished product.

On Friday, we were able to finish several items in the kitchen a [...]

Still on track for the weekend at Carroll Street

steve@phase2homes.com — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We are still on track to show the house this weekend. Lots of details are getting wrapped up this week and the house is really starting to look finished. The front of the house has been landscaped. The driveway was poured on Monday and looks great. The fencing along the driveway is also finished up. The exterior lighting on the back of the house and on the garage was installed. Inside the kitchen cabinet doors and drawers have been installed and we just have some touch up painting to do there [...]

Information Update at Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We've set an asking price of $799,000 for the house at Carroll Street. We are accepting requests for private viewings now for dates staring September 12th. Offers on the house will be accepted on September 16th by 5pm for consideration. An email was sent to the registered users informing them of the current pricing information and also dates for private open house viewing dates. Its not too late to register to get in on the early offering before we consider listing the house on the open [...]

Progress Update and Schedule News at Carroll Street

steve@phase2homes.com — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We are still having a few issues with sub-contractors schedules as we are wrapping up our project at Carroll Street. We are waiting for our cabinet doors at the moment to finish the kitchen work. Our painters cannot finish until these doors show up so they can finish the painting in the kitchen. The doors should be arriving on Friday and the painting crew will be back to f [...]

Progress update at Carroll Street

steve@phase2homes.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Despite our best efforts to finish up our project at Carroll Street this week, we are still looking at one more week to wrap up the last details. The painters that we use were only able to come last weekend and have not been able to give us any time this week due to a schedule conflict with another job. We are hoping to have them show up this coming weekend to get our painting wrapped up. This is not for certain yet, but we are hoping to confirm their time availability tomorrow.

Inside [...]

Getting Closer at Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We've been working extra hours to try to get back on schedule at our house on Carroll Street this week. Lots of progress has been made this past week. As of today (Saturday 6/23) we have our trim work done on all the door casing and the window casing on the inside of the house as well as the base boards throughout the house. Painting has started on the trim work inside the house and will continue through the weekend. The bedrooms and bathrooms trim/casing was painted today along with th [...]

Floor Color at Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We just wanted to give you a quick sample of the finished floor color. Yesterday they were able to get the floor sanding finished and the stain color applied to the floor. It came out even better than we had anticipated! The floor needs some time to dry before work can continue inside. Kitchen cabinet work should continue offsite while the floor is drying.

More to come soon a [...]

Window Casing, Flooring and Driveway at Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

The window casing on the inside of the house at Carroll St was finished up and really looks great. We were able to recreate a look similar to that of the original window casing while dressing them up more than the original using our own custom design. Once the painting on the inside is completed they will look fantastic. We are really pleased with how well the work on these came ou [...]

New Grass, Tiling, Flooring, and Stucco at Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

The grass was installed over the weekend in both the front and back yards. The new sod and sprinkler system makes a huge difference in the outside appearance of the house. Things look really clean. If you get a chance, take a drive by and see what a difference the new lawn makes. We also installed some lighting outside along the walk to the front porch and beneath th [...]

Quick Progress update at Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

There are lots of things happening simulaneously these days at the Carroll Street house as we push to get things completed. Although the list of things to do is still fairly long, they are mostly detail finishing work at this point.

We started re-laying the original hardwood floor yesterday and expect to finish up the floor re-laying by the end of the week. Once its down, we are going to have it sanded, restained and then sealed. The floor material is still really nice for its age and s [...]

Let there be light and sound at Carroll Street

steve@phase2homes.com — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We have working lights and also working audio at the Carroll Street house. We had the electrical work finish up the details on the lighting. We also have working audio in the kitchen. The kitchen speakers were wired in and the A-Bus audio system was connected up allowing us to plugin an MP3 player to one of the wall inputs to play music in the house while we are working. Its very cool and sounds great! Work has also started on finishing the wiring for all the network and video cabling runs [...]

Roofing and Painting at Carroll Street

steve@phase2homes.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We now have a real roof and gutters on the new garage at the Carroll Street house. It really makes the garage look more finished. We are scheduled to have the framing inspected on the garage tomorrow and if it passes, we move on to siding, electrical and painting.

Last Friday we had the taping and texturing finished on the sheetrock inside. Today we had painters come and sta [...]

Sheetrockin and Garage Roofin Carroll Street

steve@phase2homes.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Things are really taking shape now at the house on Carroll Street. All of the sheetrock was completed inside the house, so you can really get a feel for the different room spaces. This next week we'll be having the sheetrock taped and textured in preparation for painting. We'll post so pictures later in the week once the taping and texturing is completed.

The garage roof sheating was completed this week as well. The plan is to finish up the sheating on the front wall so we can have the [...]

Inspections and Progress at Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Things are really moving along well over at the Carroll St house. We passed our major inspections yesterday which was a big milestone for the house work. All the major systems inspections (framing, rough plumbing, mechanical, and electrical) passed which allows us to move on to insulating in preparation for sheetrock work. Once we had the green light to insulate, we quickly made good progress on that yesterday (7/1). The plan is to finish the insulation today (7/2) and have the insulation ins [...]

New Windows and more at 395 Carroll St.

steve@phase2homes.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0100

New windows arrived today and some of them were installed on the front of the house. We are really excited by the change in look already. Replacing the front door, trim work, painting, lighting and landscaping are still to be done to complete the front, but we've attached a picture so that you can see the style of the windows.

Inside, the furnace showed up today [...]

Latest Progress on 395 Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Things are moving steadily along on many things at the house on 395 Carroll St in Sunnyvale. Electrical work has started and progressed quickly. All the outlet and switch boxes have been set, the recessed lighting is in, and wire has been pulled to most of the locations of the house. In a couple days we should be able to turn on the lights at the house!

The skylight for the kitchen was framed in this week. It is a pretty big skylight that will provide nice additional daylight to the ki [...]

High Tech Info page

steve@phase2homes.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0100

We've added an additional page to Carroll St. project page that describes some of the tech features of the house and the distrubution panel we are using. For you techno-philes out there, its a fun bit of information. We plan to update that information as we add/ update the features of the house.

The 2 main walls of the garage went up yesterday (Tuesday) and the rest should be going up tomorrow. The garage is quite big and impressive now that the walls are up. It is going to be a great [...]

Progress updates at 395 Carroll St

steve@phase2homes.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0100

The new garage foundation was poured today which means we should be standing up 2 of the outer walls tomorrow. We are planning to finish up the outer walls of the garage this week and start working on the garage roof this weekend (assuming the walls are completed during the week!).

Inside the house, the framing odds and ends have been finished up in anticipation of HVAC work and electrical work starting this week. The HVAC will be an entirely new furnace and air conditioning unit, along [...]