Part One- Still near
the beginning.
The building permit has been issued, and the foundation was poured last
week, at least most of it. It was quite a sight to see a concrete
pumping truck and not one, not two, but three concrete trucks all
squished into our little (unpaved) driveway turn-around. (At least we
can be reasonable certain that the CDF fire trucks can get up to the
house.) We have been taking pictures, and hopefully have some posted on
a website soon.
The tricky thing about building in the country is you start with
nothing but land. We were lucky in that there was a developed water
source, a nice spring with a 10,000 gallon water tank. Then you need a
septic system, electricity and phone. Oh, and a propane tank unless you
want an electric stove top. (Gads) Every step you have the nice folk in
the Mendocino planning department 'helping' you along. The septic
permit was issue last year, and now that the rain has stopped, we can
get the tank put in, assuming the guy calls me back. We are getting an
electrical line from our neighbors, who have been very helpful, but
PG&E (aka Power, Greed and Extortion) have been a little slow. Five
weeks ago the guy doing the engineering design said that the plans
would be ready in two weeks. The next thing I heard from him was that
he was transferring to an office in the next county, and he "looked
forward to working with me in the future". Does he know something I
don't? So I placed a call to the woman who replaced him, to check on
the expected design completion. "Um, do you have the trench drawings?"
Not a good sign when the person in charge of your project is asking you
about the drawings you expect them to do. Meetings will be held, and..?
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