Met with Nu-Space on Saturday. Very good meeting so looking good I think. Mark's going to go take a look at the property with the concrete guy sometime. Me, I'm working on getting the building permit. I feel that of all things to be done this is the biggest challenge. Getting my own windows is fine with Mark too. In fact he says the more I can be involved the better. So I'll be learning all about those soon and looking for bargains. No particular size in mind so that's good.
Plans are required for the permit of course. I can do the plan view but there are others that are just beyond me, like the cross section from slab to roof. Mark suggested calling the building permit office and asking if they knew of an engineer who might do this kind of work on the side. So I did. And got the name of someone in Amherst. However, I thought it might be better to see if there was someone nearer - not sure why I needed to do that but I did. Looked on Kijiji Halifax and found a drafter advertising just what I needed. One email and we're connected and now I've just sent off the sketchup that I have. Not cheap to get plans drawn up but I knew that based on what I've seen with home designs on line. I figure it just might make things easier though if I have the right and complete things in the permit package.
So that's two big steps in the right direction.
In other news - lots to do around here and I felt a bit overwhelmed at one point on the weekend. Just so many jobs and big ones. But I talked myself into taking it one at a time. I decided to take a wee look at the front deck, which I was instructed would have to come partially down because of dry rot. Specifically, the spindles would have to come out. So I just wanted to take a peek and see how difficult that would be by testing a screw. One thing led to another and after 3 hours all the spindles were out, split up, and stored away for future camp fire wood! The proudest step was finding the drill, the bit, and figuring out that it did indeed run counter-clockwise for screw removal. Excellent. Some of them were buggers and I had to get them started by hand but the drill was terrific. Next step in that project will be to brush it off well with a wire brush, then fill the spots that are not looking so good (just a couple of spots need treatment to prevent the dry rot), then prime, and paint. Also plan to restain the deck. I think I might buy a high pressure hose thingy.
Had a super run on Sunday! I was supposed to go out tonight but feeling off and yesterday I came home from work and fell asleep on the couch so sumpins up. I just want to run though! hopefully tomorrow. And kayaking - got to get that in soon. I'm off to UK for 12 days as of Friday so kayaking will be the first thing on my list when I get back!
Life goes on- jiggedy jog.
