Everything is starting to speed up. We have our final plans ready. Signed by all the engineers and our architect. There are 58 pages in the set and we get chuckles from people when we hand them off. They think we have given them two sets accidentally. We also found out on Friday that our review board for the development has approved me to serve as our General Contractor. Woo hoo!
Last week was filled with meetings with mechanical contractors. We've decided to get the house Energy Star certified, so have been learning more about that process. Adam has been printing out sets of plans for all these meetings because we decided to save ourselves a bit of money and print and bind them ourselves. The cats have been a big help as you can imagine. Six sets down, maybe another six to go.
We have decided on most of our subs and by the end of this week, should know who we are hiring for our excavation and foundation work. We have a meeting with a "green" plumber we've been talking to this coming Friday. Then we need to get contracts signed with everyone and get the ball rolling.
Adam just printed out some gigantic calendars for me and I have taped them to our living room walls so we can start to track everything. Just coming up with a system for all of this has been challenging, but with the help of post-it notes and file folders, I think we're on our way. I have my mom's old Franklin Planner that I am going to attempt to use, but it may be too methodical for me. We'll see.
So now that we have our plans, septic permit, and soon our subs, our plan is to go to Marion (the county seat--about 45 minutes away) early next week and come back with our approved building permit. If everything works out, we could be getting started with our erosion control and tree save plan this month and break ground in early March. I've probably just jinxed us though.
Wish us luck!
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