Waiting for Construction Permits and Completing the Lot Ready Requirements Tomorrow will officially be 10 weeks from submitting the applications for construction permits for our Oregon new home build. The original time line said 6 weeks. There were a couple of supplemental items that needed to be addressed; they were submitted two weeks ago. We…
City Requirements for Sidewalks and Rain Gardens We’re now on week 8 since submitting our building permits. We have been patiently waiting to hear back from the city on two issues – storm water management and sidewalks. While we’ve been waiting the house has been completely demolished and we now have an empty lot. I…
Completion of Our Oregon Home Demolition This week demolition was completed on the new home. The remaining concrete from the previous foundation was torn up and taken away. The tree stumps and roots from the trees that were removed were taken away. We now just have an empty lot. Also, this week we heard back…
Continuing with Home Demolition Last week the home demolition continued. The structure was destroyed in a couple of hours and a pile of rubble was left. It took about a week to remove the debris and to continue with demolition of the foundation. Our excavator filled a huge dump truck with multiple trips to the…
Residential Home Demolition in Oregon The fun has finally begun! After months of planning, talking with contractors and getting things lined up, we’re finally starting work on the site. We had the asbestos mitigated two weeks ago and demolition started last week. It’s crazy how fast the demolition happens; the entire structure was down to…
Asbestos Mitigation to Start the Demolition Process We finally have things starting at the site! Yay!!! The asbestos contactor started on Wednesday and was done getting everything out by the end of Thursday. No big hiccups in getting it out. There was a ton of trash on the floor that they had to shovel out…
Closed on Our Construction Loan and Other Updates Last Friday we closed on our construction loan. The construction financing went surprisingly smooth. When we were first looking at purchasing the lot we were thinking about financing a small portion of the lot, but as we looked into this, we found that not many banks do…
The First Signs of Construction on Our Oregon Home After months of planning, we’re finally starting to see things happen on the site. We were getting a little impatient, so in February we decided to get some of the trees that were in the way removed. Since then we’ve been going back and fourth with…
Pre-demolition Environmental Testing For the past month we’ve been waiting on testing and a quote for mitigation of asbestos. I thought this would all happen a lot quicker, but it’s been taking a lot longer than what I was hoping. Balancing Family and Home Projects It started about a month ago (March 1) when we…
Preparing for Oregon New Home – Tree Removal We’ve been working our way through the process of getting our new home demolished. As part of that process we needed to remove some trees from the lot where the new home will be placed, and so they can access the old home for demolition. I was…
