Utility (Water Meter Installation) Bid

by J Scott May 20, 2014

The contractor we got in touch with last week about the utility work we needed to do (to get cleared to submit our Building Permit) still hasn’t provided us a bid. As I mentioned last week, the head of the county utility department gave me a list of five companies he thought might be able […]

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DEMO PERMIT!

by J Scott May 20, 2014

We got our Demo Permit today, which will allow us to tear down our existing house. While it was a quick process (I only spent about 30 minutes at the permit office), this is the culmination of many months of preparation and planning. Several weeks ago, we moved out of our house, had our electrical […]

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Septic/Well Demo Letter In-Hand

by J Scott May 19, 2014

We received our letter of approval to do demo from the county department that handles septic and well today. This is the last letter we needed in order to apply for our permit to demo the existing house. I plan to head down to the permit office tomorrow, and hopefully walk away with a demo […]

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Grading Permit Application Submitted

by J Scott May 16, 2014

We thought the big day was finally here — our engineer called us this morning and told us she had all the signed site plans in hand. This was the last piece of the puzzle for getting our grading and building permits, assuming the ADO (the water meter deposit) wasn’t going to hold up applying […]

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Signed Covenants In-Hand

by J Scott May 15, 2014

We received a copy of our Declaration of Covenants today, signed by several county departments… The Declaration of Covenants is an agreement we signed with the county that says that we promise to build and take care of the stormwater management features that were listed on our Environmental Concept Plan (ECP). Specifically, we agreed to […]

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SDP Signed

by J Scott May 14, 2014

We received word today that our Site Development Plan (SDP) has been signed by the county and is ready for pickup. The engineer expects to pick it up in the next 24 hours, make the appropriate copies that we’ll need to submit with our permit applications and then get everything to me. Hopefully we’ll be […]

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Finding a Utility Contractor

by J Scott May 13, 2014

I mentioned a couple days ago that we needed to find a water/utility contractor to provide a bid on installing the water meter and basic water line connections. We found the list of approved contractors on the county website and started calling them — unfortunately, most of them focus on larger commercial projects and aren’t […]

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Construction Loan “Approved”

by J Scott May 12, 2014

We’re getting a bank loan for our construction costs on the house. We’ve been working with the bank for about a month now, and we finally got a conditional approval. Apparently, it’s pretty uncommon that those getting construction loans are managing their own builds, as the bank is requiring construction contracts and other documentation normally […]

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New Requirement – Water Meter Bid/Deposit

by J Scott May 9, 2014

Looks like we got hit with a new requirement from the county today. Historically, the county has required that new construction commercial properties submit information about the contractor who will be installing the water meter and making a water line connection to the public lines. This also includes a bid for the work and a […]

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Phone Line Removed

by J Scott May 8, 2014

The county stopped by the house today and disconnected the phone line from the power pole and the house, and we are now officially untethered from all utilities. We received our demo approval letter from both the phone company and the power company today, and once we get the letter from the well/septic department, we’ll […]

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Asbestos Siding is Removed

by J Scott May 7, 2014

The siding on our old house is asbestos, and in order to legally demo the house, we needed to have an environmental company come in and remove the siding and dispose of it properly. Our environmental company came in yesterday with a crew of about five guys and had the stripped, bagged and hauled away […]

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