Our beam problem

We've been trying to keep track of things happening at the house, but we do live 40 mins away so getting there every single day isn't always possible. Well...Joe decided to stop by on Wednesday after work. The framers had started framing out the second floor and had finished putting the plywood on the garage walls. Excellent! There was just one problem....a drop beam that wasn't supposed to be dropped! We specifically requested that the great room be one large open room (we removed a wall to accomplish this). Through the whole planning process, no one mentioned that if we removed the wall, we'd still have a 3 inch drop from the engineered beam in the great room! Ugh! So we stopped construction on the house for the first time (and hopefully the last!).

Here's a photo of our lovely beam:



So a few phone calls later, Titan decided they'll change out the beam with two smaller ones at no charge to us. We even got a call first thing in the morning from our sales guy on his day off! Now we know how to get answers quickly...just stop construction. ;)


And I'd like to add that shoveling 4 inches of wet, heavy snow out by moonlight (and headlights) is NOT fun. They can't get that roof on soon enough!


They'll be more photos early next week, I'm sure.