This is why they say not to paint

 Before I get to that part, let me show you some other areas of the house we have completed.

The guest room.  We originally had nothing but the dresser for this room.  My hubs happened to talk to someone at work who had a free queen bed they wanted out of their house and it was clean and looked like it was never used.  We snatched it up and completed this room (for now).  I'd really like to paint in here but more on that later.

View from other side of the room

The "man loft" sure is looking manly (and messy!).  The sheepskin rug I picked up from Costco had him pretty excited!  I like that he has his own space in the house to make his own, so the rest I can make my own haha

And this...is why you don't paint.  As you know we had a leak.  It started the week we were closing and they supposedly "fixed it".  The fixed the drywall and paint too and we closed, and all was well.

Until it wasn't and it started leaking again.  So we called the PM,  he came over with his crew, I told him it seemed to happen when we had this crazy sideways rain so they inspected that area, said it was the flashing, fixed it up, repaired the drywall.  Dusty dirty mess and over 3 hours of noise and people in my house.  They were CONFIDENT they got it when they saw a part of one window kinda folded down.

Until it started leaking again.  I wasn't sure if I was supposed to call the RYAN number so I did, as well as send my PM an email.  He was so frustrated, not at me, but because he swore up and down that they caught it.  I was frustrated because yet another day I had to deal with the mess, the noise...

So they came back to investigate what it was.  And this is where I get frustrated on two accounts.  First, they took MY hose to the roof and doused the whole morning room area with water until they saw it start leaking in (why didn't they do this the first time??).  Doing this immediately showed that it was the OTHER side of the morning room, and there was a huge gap in the flashing.  I wish they would have just done this before we moved in...I mean it took them like 10 minutes to find it once they started looking at this side of the morning room, and the morning room isn't that big!

So this time, they knew exactly where the leak was coming from, they fixed it and then double fixed it, and then set up a time to come back and re-do the drywall.  After they were gone, I noticed my hose sprayer was all messed up and leaking, and I realized the contractor must have dropped it onto the concrete slab.  We had just bought it the day before and it wasn't a lot of money but it was a nice one and that annoyed me a lot that I would now have to go get a new one.  After sitting on it for a day or two, I decided to send an email to my PM about how frustrating that was for us to be put out time and time again over this leak and then our stuff gets messed up...and the next morning he was on my doorstep with a new sprayer that was metal and way nicer than the one we had before.  BRAVO PM!

So they schedule us another day to come do the drywall.  I don't have to be here, but I have a small child so it's not like I have a million other places to be and this is why it's been frustrating.  Yet another day where I can't get a whole lot done because my whole kitchen/morning room is covered in plastic and they are sanding, blowdrying and spreading drywall stuff everywhere.  They finished up after 3 hours and hallelujah they were done.  

Until my husband came home and saw this:

It might be hard to see but it got thicker in the middle.  See the next picture.

On top of our beam becoming thicker, they missed an area here where the water had seeped through.

Well once we took a good look at it, we knew we couldn't be satisfied so I sent these pics to my PM and he came over the next day, spent 3 more hours with his crew and then it finally, FINALLY was done.

So, after 3 drywall repairs and 3 different times trying to find "the leak" we can finally put this behind us.  But now I can see why they tell you not to paint.  Not to mention I am seeing nail pops and such in other parts of the house and it would be really annoying to have to literally repaint every area they touch up.  So there's a tip for you newbies who can't wait to paint!  Just make sure you have enough paint left over to paint big areas!!

One other area I have noticed.  We have these "nice" elongated toilets.  I remember at the pre-settlement demonstration he told me I need to hold it down the whole flush or else it wouldn't flush everything.  Yeah ok whatever.  But no really, he was being serious.  My son will use the bathroom and just push and release the flusher and it will not flush it all down.  It will get like 3/4 of a flush but the water will remain "unclean" looking.  Anyone else notice this?  I find it somewhat irritating that I have to hold the flusher and wait for it to complete the whole flush which feels like a long time.  Many times I have to flush twice since I forget the first time.  Just a minor annoyance!

And back to our master shower-shower caddy issue.  We bought one of those floor to ceiling spring bar things that has like 4 baskets on it.  It seemed to do ok until we woke up one morning and it had fallen forward.  Not to mention we couldn't get it all the way in the corner due to the shower pan.  Back to the drawing board.  My husband wants to drill through the grout and put a huge hook in it and seal it up.  That way we never have to worry about it falling, and we could patch the grout if we ever wanted to remove it.  Why couldn't they just put a dang shelf in our shower??  It's literally a box with nothing but the floor to rest things on.

Hope you all are doing well!  I wish I had more to post about but any further projects are put off until next year!