Hitch Number 1

Just got back from the City... joy.

To sum up, here's an email I just fired off to the architect:

Just got back from the City.

They griped that there was no existing structure floor plan. No problem; they had me use a sharpie and draw it in on two of the sets.

Then they brought this guy over (didn't get his name)... he saw two issues right away.

1) They'll need to bring public works into this because of the slab in the back and drainage.
2) There's a problem with the garage. Since we're redoing over 1/3 of the square footage, the old garage may need to be redone to meet today's standards. The current garage is 17x20; this guy said something about 20x20. Also, we're not allowed to have stairs into the garage... so even if we don't have to rebuild the garage, we'll need to recess the stairs into the house.... not sure how we'd do that given that area is the laundry room, but whatever.

They asked if, since there were already plan check issues, I wanted to submit now or not. My take was let's learn all the issues in a first pass, instead of piece-mealing this... so I submitted the plans.

Where's my maalox???

Have a good one,

bw

If we need to rebuild the garage... how much will that add to this? If it's too much, we may need to rethink this whole thing.

Damn.