Footers : Week 4

We began officially September 1st. As of today, we are at end of Week # 4.
Inspection of foundation and Footers were done this week. Passed the inspection with flying colors. The Well drilling guy didn't show up this past Thursday as scheduled. Hopefully it will happen the coming week.
Central Hudson & Verizon was on site the past week to bring in the phone and electrical service...finally after 6 months of delay.
We also found a cheaper porcelain alternative to marble bathroom tiles. The price is at $12.95/ sq feet, just a small fraction of what marble costs. The Kitchen Bath company is located next to Ikea Paramus, and as expected, it's much more cost effective than looking in Manhattan.
Our LVL/LVM/LVC kit has been rescheduled to deliver on October 12th instead. We decided to push it back 2 weeks due to the rainy whether this summer. The cost of just changing the delivery schedule is $250 admin fee + $200 of storage charges for the month. So just be careful on the scheduling.
Our Fire Orb is schedule for delivery mid coming week (Week #5). The owner of the FireOrb company is really nice and helpful. Love hands on people and especially small business owners who have pride in their product.

The Foundation

What a difference 2 weeks make. Today we visited our site and the foundation has been dug the past week. Almost ready for foundation pouring scheduled for next Wednesday.
2 old shipping containers are on site for storage of equipment and supplies. Our land in the front side of the house is now tiered. Reminds me of Bali's rice patty tiers. We hope that no retaining walls are needed hopefully, but we do have plenty of rocks that was found during the digging. Our contractor may buy a sifter of some sort to get out all the usable rocks.
We have also received the finalize plumbing bid for the project, much costlier than expected...much much more...

Sofa Sofa

We found our sofa this past weekend. Settled on Vitra's new Place Sofa by Jasper Morrison. This is a splurge by all means. Luckily we won't have to purchase this until a year later, that would give us some time to save up for it. Color would be cream or ivory, should look great against the grey concrete floors.
But the price tag really hurts...ouch!

The leveling...

1st Week of September, 2009. Our land was leveled to get ready for foundation digging. We've been using the garden cam to record weekly events at the site. Our contractor is super fast, within 3 days, most of the site was ready for the foundation and the layout of the drive way is already defined. Interestingly, we also get a glimpse of the site at all hours of the day and also wind conditions during the day.
Our land is a little sloped, about 10 feet per 20 to 30 feet of land. We might have to build a small retaining wall somewhere to prevent soil erosion.