Posted in Announcements, General on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
After a feverish rush of work done largely by Matt over the last week or so, we now have completed our concrete forms and we’ve passed our first inspection. Matt and a crew of guys are pouring concrete into our perimeter foundation this morning, and in a week we’ll be pouring concrete for our […]
Posted in Announcements on Oct 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
Finally, the mast image does actually represent our house! That’s my dad and me working on the form boards and my maternal grandmother sitting in the chair watching.
Posted in Announcements on Sep 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
Once we pay our fire, school and remaining county fees…
Update: All moneys have been paid and we now have a building permit for real!
Posted in Announcements on Jul 27th, 2007 No Comments »
We’ve moved most of our stuff to storage, I’m working on getting my office setup and we’ve got a basic camp setup on the property. We’ll be improving it as we go and pictures will likely follow next week but I just wanted to let everyone know that we’re here and it’s going well.
Posted in Announcements on Jun 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Wait, that sounds odd.
We have submitted our plans to the county building department and we have our permit number. Thanks the wonders of the modern world, we can now plug our number into a website and watch our plans go through the various steps required for getting our plans approved. Now we just […]
Posted in Announcements on Jun 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Matt got a call this afternoon from our project manager at SHS and our plans are done in engineering. We are ready to submit! Matt was already going to go up this weekend to work on his workshed, and now he’s going to meet with with SHS, pick up the plans, and submit […]
Posted in Announcements on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
So you know how our plans were supposed be done in engineering by the end of May? Well, Matt got an email yesterday saying that the engineers were going to work on them this week. Um, gee, thanks?
We are going up to frolic, err, work on the property this weekend though. We’re all looking forward […]
Posted in Announcements on May 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Matt just got an email this morning from the company who is drawing up our plans and doing the engineering work and unfortunately things are going to be further delayed. They’ve lost one of their engineers and all the work is getting stuck in the engineering bottleneck. They’re now hoping to have engineering […]
Posted in Announcements on May 11th, 2007 No Comments »
There isn’t really anything new to report, but I thought I would do a status update anyways. Our plans are still undergoing engineering review and should be done “soon”. Once they are done there, then they will be off for shop panel drawings. After that we should be getting our bundle […]
Posted in Announcements on Apr 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I entered many of the books that I’ve either referred to during design or plan to use during construction into LibraryThing and added a randomized sampling to the sidebar.