Sunday, April 28, 2013

Demo has begun, plans submitted for building permits

For all of you loyal followers, significant progress this week, even though we were in sunny Minneapolis for several days.

The plans have been submitted to the building department and they promise 'comments' in 20-25 days. My interpretation of that is in 24 days they tell us what changes they want and then they take another 24 days to say yes or no. I'm now assuming building permits will happen in the mid to late June time frame, just in time for little Lincoln's arrival in the world.

In the mean time, demolition of the garage continues with several walls down. In two, there will be no garage, which is a significant milestone.



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Final phase about to start

It's been a few months and much has been done but with no posts. I'll catch up over the next couple of weeks to get back into the blogging thing and also to learn how to actually blog. I've decided I need to learn this so I'll use the house remodel and my 3 followers as learning tools.

Status report on This Old House.

- The front is finished and it's looking good. We used a mason contractor with the apt name of Rock John Masonry and interestingly enough, Rock is his real name and he's from the Midwest. Here's a couple of pictures of the new entry to the house.





- The plans are finished and approved by the Planning dept in San Mateo, building permits next. What a pain in the ass.

- Demoing the old garage is next, work has begun.

More to come as soon as I relearn blogger.