Yesterday when I got home from work, K had great news! It had been pouring rain yesterday, so she had a rain day at work at around noon. She called the inspector again about our concrete form, and said 'Hey, I know it's last-minute, but I'll be at home today if you can come by.' And it turns out that the inspector could!
It was also a good thing that K was home when the inspector came by because she (the inspector), had questions about our lot. Since it's such a weird shape, she wasn't expecting the markers to be where they are. But K was there to point them all out to her and they got the inspection done quick and easy!
So now back to bids from concrete crews. A few months back, when we were optimistic about the project going quickly, K had posted an ad on Craigslist and got a handful of good responses. This was a few months back, however, and concrete companies are busier in the summer. Now that it's late fall, her new ad got a flood of responses and the bids were much lower! She'll probably save at least a couple hundred dollars having the slab poured now, versus in the summer. That's comforting, considering how frustrated and apprehensive this project has made her feel.
She's hoping to line someone up for Friday, so we very well could have a slab done by next week!
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013
Our Spacious Corner Lot
Our spacious corner lot... is even more spacious than we had envisioned!
An important part of the preparation before K can build our garage, is to figure out our actual, physical lot space. Sure, we could have it surveyed professionally, but K knew she could do it on her own. (As she would say, "I'm a Hollander!" and they like free stuff, so she says.)
Armed with the map of our lot from the county's website, and strong skills on Google Sketch-Up, K did hours of computing and measuring, trying to determine where our lot markers would be. Once she knew where our neighbor had a lot marker, she was able to finish her calculations and had a pretty good idea of where all 4 of our lot markers would be.
And she was right.
Yesterday, I helped her measure from the neighbor's lot marker to where ours should be. And it was there! Hiding just under the dirt, next to the retaining wall. The previous owner had bought an adjacent lot from the railroad in 2000, and maybe he also put up the tall fence, so the lot was surveyed in 2000. Meaning our markers are new, legible, and actually not too difficult to find (once you know where to look, that is.)
Within the next 24 hours, K found the other 3 markers in our yard, and had strung neon-colored string between each of them. We could really see the dimensions of what we own, and it goes back quite a ways behind our house.
Our yard is big.
That means... Big garage. And space for a garden, a patio on the back of the house... Totally possible.
An important part of the preparation before K can build our garage, is to figure out our actual, physical lot space. Sure, we could have it surveyed professionally, but K knew she could do it on her own. (As she would say, "I'm a Hollander!" and they like free stuff, so she says.)
Armed with the map of our lot from the county's website, and strong skills on Google Sketch-Up, K did hours of computing and measuring, trying to determine where our lot markers would be. Once she knew where our neighbor had a lot marker, she was able to finish her calculations and had a pretty good idea of where all 4 of our lot markers would be.
And she was right.
Yesterday, I helped her measure from the neighbor's lot marker to where ours should be. And it was there! Hiding just under the dirt, next to the retaining wall. The previous owner had bought an adjacent lot from the railroad in 2000, and maybe he also put up the tall fence, so the lot was surveyed in 2000. Meaning our markers are new, legible, and actually not too difficult to find (once you know where to look, that is.)
Within the next 24 hours, K found the other 3 markers in our yard, and had strung neon-colored string between each of them. We could really see the dimensions of what we own, and it goes back quite a ways behind our house.
Our yard is big.
That means... Big garage. And space for a garden, a patio on the back of the house... Totally possible.
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