We’re 6 business days into basement construction and we already have framing, plumbing, and lights. I was really nervous about working with subcontractors but everyone our general contractor has sent over has been so nice and really seems to know their stuff.
The plumbing work wasn’t too noisy but the dust was terrible, even with sheeting up. (We’re going to be cleaning up for months.) But dust is a small price to pay for not having to excavate the Mariana Trench ourselves: They ran into a footing when they started digging so there were two days of concrete cutting and jackhammering:
But it got done and filled in and the lights went up and now they just need to concrete the trench and do a day of HVAC, and then we’re ready for inspection! 
