Our weekly PM update

Good productive short holiday week. Framers finished to get the trades started today. Next week electricians and Guardian will start. The framers will come back and do a frame punch once the trades are completed. Pre-drywall meeting scheduled for Monday 1/7 to ensure everything is complete.

We bit the bullet

And finally purchased our first appliance. For Christmas we asked everyone to gift us Sears gift cards (since we had done some preliminary pricing & found they had the fridge we wanted for the least amount, plus we could put it on layaway for 12wks. Meaning, we could easily delay the delivery until the house was done.) & we were thankful they were so generous. When I did some online price checking, like I've done every few wks to see how the price was looking, I saw it had gone down even further & I knew the time was right to pounce! So here she is

We ended up going with the Samsung RF323TEDB[SR].

Here is was Consumer Reports says about it (which is one of the biggest seller points):

CR's Take

Overall, this is a very good refrigerator with
• an external water dispenser
• dual evaporators
• a door open alarm
• a built-in water filter
• spillproof shelves
• ice storage in its refrigerator

Highs This Samsung provides:
• Excellent temperature performance
• Excellent energy efficiency
• Very Good noise performance
• Very Good icemaking performance
• Digital temperature controls on its front door

Lows This model had:
• no discernible flaws in performance.

Summary: This 31.6 cu.-ft. French-door bottom-freezer Samsung RF323TEDB[SR] refrigerator has
• an external water dispenser
• dual evaporators
• a door open alarm
• a built-in water filter
• spillproof shelves 

Our very helpful appliance tester

Ah, yes, I think this one will do nicely. My raspberries will go there, hot dogs over there, & milk on the door.

Our weekly PM update

Good week with the slab plumbing installed and passed inspection. The slab was prepped and we are just waiting for the inspection. Next week the slab will be poured and framing started. It is very exciting when the home starts to go up. All of the windows and doors have been delivered also and will be ready to go in once the walls are set.

Our weekly PM update

Next week the slab plumbing will be installed and inspected. Then slab prep, inspection and pour. The next step is exciting as framing starts and the home going up.
Your pre-drywall meeting might be between Christmas and New Years.