Year of the House

You may not believe this. But it's done! While Rich was at WWDC, the surveyor called and said we've got your plan, and we're ready to drop it off. So on Friday, the young man took my check and delivered to me three blueprint certified copies of our survey.

The main reason we had to have it done was because we didn't know where the property line was on the side of the house where we wanted to build. If the property line was at the fence, then we only had 27 feet from the house, which would mean, with the mandatory ten-foot setback, we would only be able to build 17 feet wide. Which would be a bummer.

We have FORTY FEET. We could build as wide as thirty feet and still not have to go to the zoning board. YES! That's going to mean a bit of a change to the plan -- but now we can have a two-car garage, instead of just a really long one-car garage. Which will be awesome.

Our engineer has a copy of our survey now, and so we now need to meet with him to get a septic plan, and start on that. Maybe by my birthday, I'll be able to take a bath in my new bathtub.

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The contractor and the builder came Thursday to look at the house, and look at the sketches we've done. They have the cycles to do the work, and we are raring to go. He took some printouts from the Google Sketchup model that I worked up. Then, will wonders never cease? The surveyor actually SHOWED UP yesterday. Of course, they didn't finish, but there was orange paint on the grass, and it looks like someone actually did something.

I called the builder back this morning to let him know we were making progress, and he suggested I call the engineer he likes to work with. SO I DID! Apparently the contractor passed the printouts on to the engineer, and he kept saying things like, "Yeah, they were great, no problem, let's get started!" I was kinda floored.

I told him that we still didn't have a survey report, although they'd come out yesterday, and he asked who was doing it. I told him, and he said, "OH! I'll call Mark and see where he is with it." Apparently this engineer works with this surveyor regularly. This is a good thing, or so they tell me. For the first time in this process, I feel like we're starting to make progress.

Next step...design an expanded septic system, and get blueprints.

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