Yesterday our plans went to the County Building Department. Yes, I can hardly believe it myself, the engineer is finished with all of his calculations and input, the truss company and their engineer are finished and we finally have plans, real plans.
The county estimates it will take approximately 3 weeks before we hear anything. I'm sure if there are any problems we'll hear something sooner. So for now "No News is Good News". We've got a few projects we'll be working on while we are waiting.
The house currently only sits on piers and posts and has no real foundation so in the next three weeks we'll be digging footings for the foundation under the old section of the house that will remain and get a major remodel. Digging the footings will no doubt be a wonderful adventure as one wall of the house is a cinder block/cement wall so the house can not be raised while we dig the footings. The remaining footings (2) have to be dug by hand because of this and oh did I mention the digging is in slate!
Additionally, we have to set up the 5th wheel including plumbing it to the septic tank, plumbing the fresh water supply to it and setting up electrical service to it. I've all ready decided that remodeling requires a lot of digging. Oh well, we're in gold country so maybe we'll strike it rich! HA!
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