As of September 23rd...

HVAC guys have been here a couple days this week.  They plan to be completed by weeks end. These are the "trunk" lines going out from the Air Handling Unit inside the house.  The Heat Pump itself will be outside and both will be installed this week.  From the Trunk Lines there are 6" Insulated flex lines which run to each register in the rooms.

The guy building each of these custom trunk lines is apparently their best guy.  He actually wasn't originally going to do our job as he is their "high end" fabricator, but the first guy that showed up went into the crawlspace for one day and decided he didn't want to return.  So we got this guy by "accident" but I told the installer that this was no accident as it's not so much the hot or cold air I care about as much as it is how clean the air is and I was glad to have someone who takes pride in their work.  He's not the fastest, but he's thorough and old school, and sometimes (not always) that's not a bad thing.

When I told him to help himself to the fridge where there are cookies and pop he perked up even more and seemed quite at home to helping himself ;-)  Whatever keeps a guy who's crawling around in our confined space happy, I'll do my best to accommodate.

The Drywaller is doing a superb job and might even be completed by tomorrow, but said Thursday just in case.