Met with the architect on Sunday.
Looks like the drawings will be ready for plan check at the end of the month. According to him, that means we could be out of the house by mid-June. Add six months, and it means we'll be lucky to be back in the house by the holidays.
Joy to the freakin' world.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Friday, April 20, 2007
Appliances
More time spent on appliance research and shopping.
We've decided (with the architect's approval) to reduce the size of the range from 36 to 30 inches. It means a less professional range, but it means one easier to find (and MUCH less expensive).
Lisa's leaning toward the GE Profile. We'll check on the reviews to see if it's a good fit with us.
According to the architect who forwarded to us prelimary "fiftypercenters", the final drawing will be done by the end of the month.
Then we can go into plan check and bid the project out to contractors.
In the meantime, we've begun to pack away our stuff for storage.
We've decided (with the architect's approval) to reduce the size of the range from 36 to 30 inches. It means a less professional range, but it means one easier to find (and MUCH less expensive).
Lisa's leaning toward the GE Profile. We'll check on the reviews to see if it's a good fit with us.
According to the architect who forwarded to us prelimary "fiftypercenters", the final drawing will be done by the end of the month.
Then we can go into plan check and bid the project out to contractors.
In the meantime, we've begun to pack away our stuff for storage.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Update, no update
Met with the architect yesterday. Things look good from his point of view.
I've got concerns. Tomorrow is six weeks for the strucutral drawings, and we've received nothing. Only claims of being half-finished (not exactly uplifting since the whole process was to take six to eight weeks). The engineer's "fifty-percenters" (work in progress drawings) have not yet been submitted to the architect. When I express my concern, the architect is not so worried. He claims that the engineer's usual "fifty-percenters" are more like other engineers 80% output, and that he has no doubt that once the "fifty-percenters" are complete, there is only about five more days of work left.
Whatever.
On the other side, the architect went over this plans. Things look pretty good. I'm a little concerned that these "expansion" lines between slabs of the stucco (to allow for temperature expansion and contraction) are going to look funky ('specially as I've not seen them on residential buildings only commercial properties). The kitchen elevations look awesome. Lisa is really excited. And I think we're finally getting through to him on the cost issue. We're not Viking people... I'm not sure I could tell the functional difference between Viking and Kenmore. (It's kinda like bike wheels... I have three hundred dollar bike rims. There are four thousand dollar bike rims out there, but as my guy at the bike store says, "You ain't a pro... you're not going to notice the difference...) So maybe we can drop some cost there. We're already making sure that the drawings are created so that we can back away easily from some of the "extra" items (deck outside, tiled shower [vs. prefab] in the boys' bath, etc.).
But for now, we wait (and Lisa does more research on appliances [and thank goodness for that... I just can't build up the enthusiasm]).
I've got concerns. Tomorrow is six weeks for the strucutral drawings, and we've received nothing. Only claims of being half-finished (not exactly uplifting since the whole process was to take six to eight weeks). The engineer's "fifty-percenters" (work in progress drawings) have not yet been submitted to the architect. When I express my concern, the architect is not so worried. He claims that the engineer's usual "fifty-percenters" are more like other engineers 80% output, and that he has no doubt that once the "fifty-percenters" are complete, there is only about five more days of work left.
Whatever.
On the other side, the architect went over this plans. Things look pretty good. I'm a little concerned that these "expansion" lines between slabs of the stucco (to allow for temperature expansion and contraction) are going to look funky ('specially as I've not seen them on residential buildings only commercial properties). The kitchen elevations look awesome. Lisa is really excited. And I think we're finally getting through to him on the cost issue. We're not Viking people... I'm not sure I could tell the functional difference between Viking and Kenmore. (It's kinda like bike wheels... I have three hundred dollar bike rims. There are four thousand dollar bike rims out there, but as my guy at the bike store says, "You ain't a pro... you're not going to notice the difference...) So maybe we can drop some cost there. We're already making sure that the drawings are created so that we can back away easily from some of the "extra" items (deck outside, tiled shower [vs. prefab] in the boys' bath, etc.).
But for now, we wait (and Lisa does more research on appliances [and thank goodness for that... I just can't build up the enthusiasm]).
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