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Section 5 | Construction of Your New Home Plumbing fixtures Appliance Carpet Construction cleaning Window/Door screens K. Hovnanian® Quality Assurance Review (QAR) Punch-out FINAL INSPECTIONS Local authority occupancy inspections: plumbing, electrical, fire, building, and engineering K. Hovnanian® Quality Assurance Review (QAR) CLOSING Pre-occupancy clean Gold Key Orientation Final punch-out Closing walk clean Gold Key Delivery Nothings Happening Expect several days during construction of your home when it appears that nothing is happening. This can occur for a number of reasons. Each trade is scheduled days or weeks in advance of the actual work. This period is referred to as lead time. Time is allotted for completing each trade’s work on your home. Sometimes, one trade completes its work a bit ahead of schedule. The next trade already has an assigned time slot, which usually cannot be changed on short notice. Progress will seem to pause while the home awaits internal K. Hovnanian® Homes and local authority in- spections. This is also part of the normal sequence of the construction schedule, and occurs several times in every home. Also, throughout construction of a home, work progresses rapidly at some stages as highly visi- ble stages are completed, (such as installing large ex- panses of walls), and more slowly at others, (such as detail work in framing soffits and closets). If you have questions about the pace of work, please contact your sales consultant for an update. THE IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION ON CLOSING Until the roof is on and the structure is enclosed, weather can dramatically affect your estimated closing date. Even after the home is past the potential for weather-related delays, weather can severely impact installation of utility services, final grading, and concrete flat work, to mention a few examples. Extended periods of wet weather or freezing temperatures bring work to a stop in the entire region. When favorable conditions return, the trade partners go back to work, picking up where they left off. Please understand that they are as eager as you are to get caught up and to complete your new home. Closing Updates We recognize that timing is critical to planning your move, therefore we will provide updates throughout the process. In summary, we will update you on the estimated closing date at each of your construction orientations. You are welcome to check with your sales consultant for the most current closing date. As completion nears, more factors come under our control and we can be more precise about that date. Meanwhile, please be flexible and avoid making arrangements that might cause you to worry if your Closing Date changes. Please avoid finalizing closing arrangements until you receive written notification from K. Hovnanian® Homes. Until then, flexibility is the key to comfort, sanity, and convenience. We want you to enjoy this process and avoid unnecessary stress caused by uncertainty that can not be avoided. Review the rate lock heading in Section 3, Financing Your Home, for additional suggestions on this topic. Edition July 2019 | 23