Our lawyer is taking Christmas vacation starting Dec.14th...which forces us to hustle big time if we want to get our first draw from the construction mortgage signed off before she leaves. If that doesn't happen, the two companies we've hired to prepare the foundation of the house will have to be paid after Christmas. Ouch.
So the footings were poured on Monday, which was excellent timing because we got a shitload of snow that night, into the following day and trailing into Wednesday. But luckily, it was done before the snow fell, and Wednesday we had the municipal inspector pass the footings. Yay! I was worried because we had made a substantial change to the height of the basement walls since we first put in our building permit, and the change had to be OK'd before the inspector would pass it. Since it had been less than one week since I submitted the revised plans, it was possible the inspector would have failed it just because the old plans didn't match up with the new set-up. Phew.
Yesterday, the foundation people set up the forms for the five feet of basement wall that will be concrete. We went to check it out last night, and it looked good. It will be a tall house in the end (2.5 stories, with an 8/12 roof pitch) but hey, all better to see the lake view once it's finished. And so hopefully today or Monday the concrete will be poured, and we can get a location certificate, a municipal inspection, and a mortgage inspection (through CMHC) done before Friday, Dec.14th. The municipal inspection won't be a problem, and the location certificate could be done in two days (if the engineer dude ever returns my calls), but the we'll be damn lucky if the CMHC inspector can make it out with less than 1 week notice. Hope, hope, hope (and rely on our mortgage girl to do her thing, again. She is super friendly and so willing to throw the word "urgent" on all our documents!).
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