Today, I practically skipped into the city's building department to pay for and pick up our building permits. Afterward, Kevin, the girls and I headed out to the lot to meet with the construction manager Chris to do our final lot inspection before construction begins. We staked out where the house will sit and realized that the excavator excavated the wrong house plan for us. We were wondering why it was so big! Originally we had decided to go with the two story 2432, then we thought because of our budget we would have to change it to the one story 1952, but in the end went with the 2432. Apparently, both of those plans were given to the excavator by Adair and he didn't do a final check before he started to see which one we had decided to go with. Needless to say our bill from him just for the housepad is now nearly double what he originally quoted us! We are not happy about this. Hopefully, between Adair and the excavator something can be worked out. We are not going to pay thousands more for a mistake that wasn't ours.
According to Chris, he can get his guys out there to pour the foundation in about a week and a half. On a side note we decided to push the house back about 3 feet, because the driveway seemed too short the way it was, and we need an adequate amount of space to be able to have a turnaround.
We are very excited to finally be at this point. Here are a couple pictures I snapped today. One is of the temporary power pole all hooked up and electrified :) and the others are the stakes for the final position of the house and of course the wonderful building permits! The next post will be pics of the foundation, woohoo!!
The building permit!!
The temp power pole all hooked up and ready to go!
The left side of the house stakes. I took these pics with my iphone so I couldn't get it all in with one shot! See how much extra shale was put down on the left?
The right side of the house stakes.
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