Seeing Pink (and RED)

The good news is that we have been making progress on the firestopping that is required per out rough-in inspection. We have to use fire caulk and rock wool to fill any holes or gaps between floors in the chase and anywhere in the top plates of interior walls. This prohibits the spread of fire from one floor to another. Although my continuing question is what's the point, since we have an open, two story great room?? Oh well, what the inspector wants, the inspector gets. . . Note the pink fire caulk and the beige rock wool in the pic below. Also notice the pink protective floor covering on the wall - how cute, it coordinates with the fire caulk.



Spray foam is supposed to begin being installed tomorrow or Thursday, but we still have a missing jamb extension on one of our windows. We ordered one on Dec. 6th and it just got here today. The problem is that it looks terrible and doesn't match the existing jamb. The other factory jamb extensions in the house are so tight and match so beautifully that you don't even notice that there's extensions there. (We have 2x6 walls, so that's why there's extensions). They are now supposed to be coming out tomorrow to try and do a custom extension to make it match better. We'll see how that goes, but we've decided that if it doesn't match the quality of the other windows in the house, the manufacturer will have to replace that one window and send us one with a factory jamb extension per our original order. They seemed to think we were being unreasonable . . . I just don't see how I can stomach paying that much for windows and not getting it right? I don't think that's too much to ask. I'll keep you posted as this saga continues!