So yesterday was our 10 month inspection, and honestly, I felt like I barely had anything on my list. I only had 2 rooms with any nails pops, the RH service rep said that our side of the street, the lots are pretty much solid bedrock underneath, so many people didn't have many pops or cracks because the settling is so minimal, so that made me happy to know we are on super solid ground!
The main issue I had was with the yard, and our service rep, Matt (who was awesome btw!) he said he was already out at out lot and discusses with the PM what needed done, there was no hesitation that they will come in, re-grade, re-seed and add a drain too to help with the water accumulation in our yard. It will be done within the next 2-3 weeks, so we shall see if they keep their promise! I told them I don't want any rock soil, and he assured it's screened topsoil when they come back to do the yard work after the 10 months, so I will hold him to his word!
Other than a few floor squeaks and a few settling cracks, we have been very pleased with our Ryan Home, now, if they can only sell the empty lot next to us! That this will NOT sell! I think it's cursed....
On another positive note, it's going to be freaking HOT this week, FINALLY! This Pittsburgh winter has been rough, it did test the limits of our furnace and insulation, both of which we were very pleased with, our house stayed nice and toasted, but our skin suffered, and nose bleeds every morning! Not to mention our poor hardwood contracting, but they are all back to normal now that the humidity levels are rising! Hopefully we won't see another winter like that EVER again!
Wow, you are lucky... I have never heard of them coming out and re-grading after the 10 month!
ReplyDeletereally? They tell you that you get 1 slow spot fill within your first year, so any of the sunken areas from settling would be filled then. But, our yard was graded REALLY bad, as in we had standing water at ALL time, so i would have went crazy on them if they said no!
DeleteHmmm, regrade. we will see!! LOL. I have had my yard redone 3x times. So dont give up after this. I hope they do things differently over there,,,,,,,,BUT......our regrading consisted of dumping some dirt over some already weeds and back grass, and do patch work and dumping fresh dirt OVER WEEDS and planting seeds. Now this will work a little bit, but if your weeds and crabgrass over take your yard and they just dump MORE dirt on top of it without cleaning up the yard first (I will fall over if they do that) you may just get more crabgrass and weeds. Just stay on them, but you know that :). I just think the only thing that will help us is...................a total GUT job and starting over cause all this shit rock is going to keep coming to the surface and cause weeds and more bare spots. Please let us know how it goes. OH also you are waiting 3weeks because you know the landscaping companies are actually doing REAL work for real customers this time of year. The get to us in JUNE when its harder to grow grass!!!! Can you tell im just a little bitter about my yard :(
ReplyDeletewe are actually weed free in our yard, true green has made a big difference I think, we just have bare spots that they will fill and then the major part is the dip in the back yard that is a swamp, but the drain will help with that and leveling it our a bit too. I think they've done a good job in our neighborhood, most people's yards look really good after the second year, now, the bad lawns are because I know the homeowners don't take care of them so they succumb to weeds, but our old house in Bridgeville was 100% crabgrass and clover so this is a step up for us! The grass we do have is super lush and thick, it's just patchy in some areas, I saw the already patched 4 of our neighbors yards the other day and they put down the good stuff, no rocks! So i'm hoping we will be as lucky!
DeleteRachael, Good to hear about your punch list. Matt D is awesome and he will take care of you. That guy doesn't mess around and he has taken care of stuff for me, especially some drainage issues we had as well. It has been 2 years in my house and he stopped by earlier last month to see how things were.
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