Monday, April 6, 2015

Weekend Update

Nothing much has changed...our house is still staked out & they should be breaking ground this week.  Since it was a beautiful Saturday, J & I stopped by on our way to pack more stuff at his house. We walked around and stood in each room like complete dorks.  I have photographic evidence of J doing just this:
Keep Out, Wife...this is MY Study!  Even if a dozer tracked right through it.

Oh yeah, it was deceivingly muddy.  Good thing that our neighbors had some erosion & sedimentation controls in place that we could use to scrape off the mud. (ahem - I may also be a little bit of a dork for recognizing the e&s controls)  We also found a handy "pool" that had both water and piles of excess concrete great for mud removal. Their house looks like it'll be framed this week - exciting for them for sure!

Go Big Blue!!  (A shame they lost)


We did find out that NVRM isn't just making us resubmit forms 2 & 3 times.  This is an epidemic with these people.  Our friends who've gone through and are going through the process all say the same thing.  And boy is it irritating to have 5 people asking for the same thing.  Get it together!  Create a folder in your email for each property, use a database to store documents, TALK to your coworkers, etc.  It's not that hard to stay organized and one avoids the appearance of being less than competent.  Let's just say that I don't have a warm fuzzy about these folks.

That's all I have for now - hopefully I'll get the notice that they broke ground today!

2 comments:

  1. Don't feel bad about recognizing the e&s controls. At least your site has them. I had to write Ryan Homes an email informing them of the detention basin behind our house not having them (skimmer, temporary soil stabilization, rock channel protection). Also, I sent them a picture of a disturbed curb inlet protection in front of my house. Can't help it, it's the engineer in me.

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  2. Haha, yeah I think they're a little less than enthused when they discover that a homeowner holds an engineering degree, especially a civil degree! Probably because we tend to notice these things and ask questions. LOTS of questions.

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