Post by cddexter on Apr 25, 2016 9:44:25 GMT -5
Took me four months to get the building permit.
Hole now dug for house foundations.
Footings formed, geo-tech passed, structural engineer passed, building inspector passed.
Looking to pour tomorrow, if carpenter can find enough helpers (two off sick).
With Cdn/US exchange as it is, and so much stuff manufactured in the US, I'm back building at one of the most expensive times.
The outbuilding (farm equip, garage, workshop, koi tanks, pottery shed) is on hold as I've already spent $75,000 and only have the foundations in and backfilled. The rest of the money went to environmental biologists, surveyors, and hydrological, geotechnical, structural engineers to comply with (wrong) environmental inspectors and building inspector issues. No one seems to take responsibility any more for anything. I even had to pay a licensed surveyor $300 to give me a stamped letter confirming the width of the road across the property because the building inspector 'required' it, even though it's their road, and the engineering dept. confirmed it was standard gazette 66' wide.
I've been fighting for almost two years to get the enviro dept to correct their development permit boundaries, because they, sitting in the office with a cup of coffee in one hand and a pencil in the other, looking at old aerial maps), decided I had a 'wetland' along one side of the lot. Actually, it was their ditch taking road runoff water away, that hadn't been cleaned out so the water was blocked and spilled over toward but not on my property, and enviro said the works dept couldn't clean out the ditch because it 'might' contain native species of plants. I'm all for saving species and looking after natural places, but this chick is out of control. Finally got acknowledgement I was right, but not a clear okay. Took it anyway, and had the machinery in to clean up the field that's been fallow for 20 years, and should be fencing soon. Phew.
cheers, c.
Hole now dug for house foundations.
Footings formed, geo-tech passed, structural engineer passed, building inspector passed.
Looking to pour tomorrow, if carpenter can find enough helpers (two off sick).
With Cdn/US exchange as it is, and so much stuff manufactured in the US, I'm back building at one of the most expensive times.
The outbuilding (farm equip, garage, workshop, koi tanks, pottery shed) is on hold as I've already spent $75,000 and only have the foundations in and backfilled. The rest of the money went to environmental biologists, surveyors, and hydrological, geotechnical, structural engineers to comply with (wrong) environmental inspectors and building inspector issues. No one seems to take responsibility any more for anything. I even had to pay a licensed surveyor $300 to give me a stamped letter confirming the width of the road across the property because the building inspector 'required' it, even though it's their road, and the engineering dept. confirmed it was standard gazette 66' wide.
I've been fighting for almost two years to get the enviro dept to correct their development permit boundaries, because they, sitting in the office with a cup of coffee in one hand and a pencil in the other, looking at old aerial maps), decided I had a 'wetland' along one side of the lot. Actually, it was their ditch taking road runoff water away, that hadn't been cleaned out so the water was blocked and spilled over toward but not on my property, and enviro said the works dept couldn't clean out the ditch because it 'might' contain native species of plants. I'm all for saving species and looking after natural places, but this chick is out of control. Finally got acknowledgement I was right, but not a clear okay. Took it anyway, and had the machinery in to clean up the field that's been fallow for 20 years, and should be fencing soon. Phew.
cheers, c.
