Battling the flu and an odd shaped lot

Greetings,

Well I spent most of yesterday battling the flu, but I did manage to get some things done. I went to Homer Electric Association to get our temporary power ordered. I was going to rent a meterloop from Big G electric, but it turned out that HEA had one that they would rent out for far less a month. I have will set up the temporary meter loop over the weekend, and a HEA techinician will come by on Monday to make sure it is ready for hook-up, then later in the week they will hook it up.

The excavator got started on the tree removal, but only on the main house area. We have to get the remaining tree removal O.K.'d by the architectural committee, we are going to try to abide by the covenances as best as we can. It is still a little early to be doing dirt work, but that is the price that you pay to get your project moving. It is going to be a mucky project to start things out. The frost is about 6" below surface, and is about 6" thick, and it is mostly slop above the frost line.

I slept until noon today, trying to shake the flu, finally I got up went to a voice recital of my daughter's, and after that I went to the property to stake out the approximate location of the house. We are having a difficult time placing the house on the lot because we are concerned about the placement of the septic. Ideally, the better ground is located at the front of the lot, but the two adjacent lots have wells that are with in the mandatory 100' radius of that location, so we are forced to putting the septic in the back of the lot. The problem with this is that the property slopes off considerably in the back and there is swamp not too far off, so we are concerned that we will hit a water table, which would cause the septic to be an additional $10000-$15000. So we are trying to keep the house as close to the front of the lot as we can, so that the septic will be on higher ground. We are considering modifying the house plans slightly to narrow the house so that we can wedge it closer to the front of the lot. We came up with a way to make the garage narrower yet deeper so we wont lose the sq. footage.

Right now we have our plans with a autocad designer to make the some other interior changes, so we are going to give him a call and have him make the changes to the garage.

The one thing that is the most important with projects like these is that there is always problems that you run into just about everyday. It is easy to get bent out of shape when these occur, but you have to stay focused on the end result. 99.9% of the time there is a solution to whatever problem that comes up, you just have to work your way through it.

Cash21