The long dark winter of the spirit
Well, everything has been holding patterns and research and quotes over the past few months. Rather than write an epic that will consumer hours of time, I think I will break it down into bite sized posts on the status of each component of the plan.
The short story on the lack of updates is that the holding pattern we have been in took hold of me after the New Year and inertia proved that it would win. Today, that changes. It only took the Great Valentine's Day Storm of Aught Seven for me to sit down and get to it. The long story is pretty much the same, but with a bit more blame to assign around, away from me.
Going to the Great Northeast Home Show in Albany this past week got me thinking about everything that we have done so far, and everything left to do, and so here we are.
We met with our building inspector to find out what we need to have to get our permit. We discovered we basically need a Septic Permit (check), Engineer stamped plans (bzzt), a foundation plan (check) and to fill out the application. He seems very supportive of owner-builders and open to different ideas.
We sat down, managed to make the final changes to the plans and get them to FirstDay so that the stamping process could get started. Nothing too drastic. We moved the Northwest bedroom to the center of the South wall (where the extra family room would have been) and moved our room to the West side. We used the rest of the extra space for a utility closet/area. Also, we removed a couple of North facing windows and using smaller windows for other ones.
A couple of weeks after sending the revised plans, we got a call from FirstDay telling us our site is in a special strip of land East of the Hudson that has the highest snow load and wind ratings in the state. This requires more time for the engineer to do the calculations, but the final plans should be coming within a week or 2 now, along with our final invoice. Yep, we are getting close! Keep your eyes peeled for more soon.
The short story on the lack of updates is that the holding pattern we have been in took hold of me after the New Year and inertia proved that it would win. Today, that changes. It only took the Great Valentine's Day Storm of Aught Seven for me to sit down and get to it. The long story is pretty much the same, but with a bit more blame to assign around, away from me.
Going to the Great Northeast Home Show in Albany this past week got me thinking about everything that we have done so far, and everything left to do, and so here we are.
We met with our building inspector to find out what we need to have to get our permit. We discovered we basically need a Septic Permit (check), Engineer stamped plans (bzzt), a foundation plan (check) and to fill out the application. He seems very supportive of owner-builders and open to different ideas.
We sat down, managed to make the final changes to the plans and get them to FirstDay so that the stamping process could get started. Nothing too drastic. We moved the Northwest bedroom to the center of the South wall (where the extra family room would have been) and moved our room to the West side. We used the rest of the extra space for a utility closet/area. Also, we removed a couple of North facing windows and using smaller windows for other ones.
A couple of weeks after sending the revised plans, we got a call from FirstDay telling us our site is in a special strip of land East of the Hudson that has the highest snow load and wind ratings in the state. This requires more time for the engineer to do the calculations, but the final plans should be coming within a week or 2 now, along with our final invoice. Yep, we are getting close! Keep your eyes peeled for more soon.
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