Things At A Hault Again!!

Well, we were so hopeful the way the week started that the concrete would actually be filling the hole right now!

But it's not!

Here is the deal.....

The footings on the current foundation of the house do not extend all the way across to where the new part of the addition was going to tie in. So what has to happen now as we discussed with the contractor earlier tonight is that, instead of coming into the new entrance and either going down or up the stairs,there is now going to have to be a hallway leading to the stairs and then you go straight to go down the stairs or turn left to go up the stairs into a hallway leading to the bathroom and bedrooms.

Now with these changes the way it is going to be set up it's going to eat up some of the space in the bedroom upstairs.I know this is hard to picture but just try.

The other solution that would have kept the stairs in their original spot was to knock about 2 feet off of the existing kitchen space we have now.Which would make the kitchen even smaller than it is and plus the fact we would then have to redo the whole kitchen which is definitely not in the budget.We are trying to keep this as close to the $73,800 we were quoted at.Plus we still have to put a furnace in and all new duct work throughout the house which is going to cost us another $13,500.This due to the fact that our 30 year old furnace decided to crap out this winter, thank God it wasn't a cold winter.Plus all the duct work in our house is all rusted because there is so much moisture in the basement, so this means new duct work and we have to put in an air exchanger for moisture purposes.


So here we sit again waiting! Another problem is the fact that we spent about $1000 dollars to get these plans stamped and now things are changing, so that was pretty much money we wasted. I don't see the point of getting these plans stamp only because when the original plans are drawn up you can't plan for things like this.You don't know what things you are going to run into.So now every time something comes up I have to draw up a new plan bring it to the town office let them know what's going on. So this  $1000 we paid for these nice plans to be done and stamped are now worthless! To me it just seems like another money grab and believe me when it comes to home renovations that's all it seems to be! 

That pretty much sums up the day which turned out to be pretty disappointing, only because we were hoping that there would be some cement filling that hole in the backyard. Here is hoping for a better and more productive day tomorrow!

That's all for now!