Where do I start????

UPDATE: see post above for an explanation - it's apparently not as bad as it originally seemed but we just hadn't heard of them doing this before. A short cut I guess?!

Today, we took a drive out to the new house, so that we could walk around together without all the construction crews being there... we were quite surprised to see that we had been the victims of some ridiculous vandalism. How some people can stoop this low is just beyond comprehension. Why??!! First of all, I noticed a big hole cut in the master bedroom wall, beside the window and insulation was showing. Then Miles told me that the bonus room window had been broken last week because a beer bottle had been thrown at it. Also... because they have taken one of the basement windows out to pour the concrete floor (still not done), it's been sitting outside for close to four weeks and finally got kicked in - I'm not surprised. Then, in the bonus room, someone has taken the vapour barrier and ripped it... at least it's not our problem and sadly enough I'm sure the builders have to deal with this kind of garbage more often that they care to but really people...
On a postive note, we met one of our new neighbours! They have three little girls, a four year old and two-year old twins :)

Basement window smashed

Bonus room window smashed

Vapour barrier ripped *NOTE: we found out the next day that this was the first place they were going to bring the drywall through BUT ran into wiring

Hole in wall from inside, with insulation pulled back...

Hole from the outside... *NOTE: the next day we found out that this was a deliberate work-related 'cut' and used to get the drywall into the house

Last week, they started insulating and also started putting up the soffits and facia. It's looking great but I was a bit concerned that they hadn't put up the two decorative cross pieces in the peaks of the gables yet, so I called the builder and mentioned it. I wasn't sure if they went on before or after the trim and didn't want to be told, "it's too late".... so on October 30th, after picking the kids up from school, I drove by the house to find out that they had put up the cross pieces, only they couldn't be more WRONG! I took a picture of what had been done and then drove by our 'inspiration house' and took a picture of it AND THEN drove straight to the builder and said, "look - this is what you DID... and this is what it is SUPPOSED to be!!!" He got the file and blamed it on being a one dimensional drawing and that there should have been a 3-D picture with it... LOOK IN THE FILE BUDDY! It's been there since about day three!

INSULATION!!!!

The inspiration house... what it should be like!!!

Our house - they put them on the side of the house!?