New Home Decisions

Erci and I have the rare opportunity to build a completely custom home in Haymarket, Virginia. We are using Kevin and Kathy Goode of Spectrum Homes as our builder, and John Heltzel and Kent Williams of Heltzel Architecture of Manassas as the architects.

PDF Versions of floor plans and elevations (all 90 degrees on axis, you can flip these upright in Acrobat Reader version 4 or newer on PC/Mac):

Basement Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Front Elevation
East End Elevation
Back Elevation
West End Elevation

Entertainment Center, back view (from foyer)
Entertainment Center, side view
Entertainment Center, front view (from family)
Entertainment Center, top down
Screened Porch, floor plan
Screened Porch, side view
Screened Porch, rear view (from pool)

Eventually I want to do something like Fine Homebuilding Magazine (http://www.taunton.com/fh) does with it's web space by having more interactive plans at this website. Theirs can be seen at http://www.taunton.com/fh/houses2000/meditmodern.htm.

Erci has a few pictures of the ongoing construction on her website: http://www.vampyr.org/house.html.

Index:

Appliances
Home Automation
Lighting and Switches
Exterior and Structural
Interior and Decorative

Utilities:

• Telephone Service: Verizon (formerly GTE) 1-800-483-4400 (can they provide DSL? No Metro Lines available - 15th November - 8-5 daytime) $40 installation charge
  Verizon has been misleading, uninterested in customer service, willing to do a miserable installation job, and unwilling to waive charges for a shoddy installation. Find another service.
• Alternate Telephone Service: Cavalier Telephone 703-778-4000 / 1-800-950-7858 may be a better deal...
  free Internet Caller ID
  DSL packages
  Free Installation
  Free 3-way calling and speed dial
  Keep your present number
  CallerID/VoiceMail available for a little more, but sadly no anonymous call blocking (the one really nice feature Verizon offers).
• More alternates: www.talk.com, primustel.com,
• Cable Service: Comcast 703-368-4227 (they only provide Digital Cable to my Zipcode - I want Internet Access! - construction number - 703-878-1573)
  Called on 9/30/2002 to start service on the 16th of October:
  • limited basic cable $18.95 per month - includes newschannel8 + $29.95 installation
  • digital cable with HBO $67.95 per month + free installation
  • broadband internet access $54.95 per month + $29.95 installation (+$5.00 per month to rent a cable modem, -$15.00 per month if also a cable tv subscriber)

    Scheduled installation between 8am and noon on 10/16/2002 with small TV, router, and laptop handy

• Wireless Broadband: MAE Dulles 866-623-3855
• Electrical Power: NOVEC 703-335-0500
  Work Order for installation: 77331, Shane Killian was the site rep
  Service is set up wrong (400 am service instead of 600 amp service) - need to work with Derrick Crow 703-754-6727
  Called just before September 6th, and again September 30th
• Liquid Propane Suppliers (delivered via truck):
  Southern States (Vern Marshall)
• Dish Network 1-800-333-3474
  Call Dish Network when we move (Oct 22nd?) to get a free dish-mover replacement dish (leave old dish at current house, bring my own gear). We must commit to credit card autopay for 12 months of Top 150 programming, we we can pay $75 for the service.

Authors: Scott Nolan () and Erci Nolan () (How to send us email)
Last updated: September 30th, 2002