{"id":97,"date":"2010-07-16T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/thisoldhouse\/?p=97"},"modified":"2010-07-16T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:38:37","slug":"moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2010\/07\/16\/moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"moving forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, some updates on what&#8217;s going on as we try to move forward with our immediate plans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I found out that we do need a permit from the city to demolish the add-on. I got the necessary paperwork and will be filling it out today. I hope the permit isn&#8217;t too expensive.<\/li>\n<li>I called around and found that there&#8217;s no official documentation of our property lines. One option was to rent a metal detector and see if we could find the metal stakes that surveyors usually bury in the ground. However, because we&#8217;re pretty sure the neighbor&#8217;s fence is partly on our property, we decided to go ahead and pay for a survey so we could be sure before we approach our neighbors.<\/li>\n<li>I set up a survey for Monday. Yikes, that was more money that we didn&#8217;t expect to spend, but such is life, isn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once the survey work is complete, then we will apply for the &#8220;building permit&#8221;. Once we&#8217;re okay with that, we&#8217;ll get my uncle to start taking down the porch. In the meantime we&#8217;ll start stripping the porch of things that we want to Freecycle.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the plan for the rest of the summer, hoping to complete this before it gets cold in the fall. I&#8217;m praying that we have enough money.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demolish porch and deck. (My uncle and cousin will be helping)<\/li>\n<li>Get quotes from contractors about the foundation. (I&#8217;ve already researched a list of contractors to call.)<\/li>\n<li>Repair the foundation, put insulation back in the crawlspace. (Need to research about the best way to go about doing that. Also, need to install a vapor barrier.)<\/li>\n<li>Get rid of our shed and buy a smaller one. May need to do the backyard in between the two. (Research setback laws. From what I&#8217;ve read so far, it seems we might be very limited as to where we can put a shed on our property.)<\/li>\n<li>Grade the backyard and put in sod. (Will get quotes from landscapers for this after the foundation is taken care of.) This is essential to fixing the water problems because our backyard dips in the middle of the yard, so the water can&#8217;t naturally flow to the creek that&#8217;s behind our yard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will take care of the foundation problem, and also the water problem. (And taking care of the latter will help prevent future foundation problems!) An added benefit is that we&#8217;ll be able to actually enjoy our yard, free of mosquitoes and weeds. I&#8217;m really excited about these projects! I hope it doesn&#8217;t take too long to complete this list! And I hope we don&#8217;t have too many unexpected expenses, because already we are cutting it tight. (And having a $526 after-insurance hospital bill doesn&#8217;t help!) One potential expense is our fence &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping we can continue to use what is up right now (not sure how that works with grading the property, etc.), but I don&#8217;t want to ignore the possibility of having to replace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, some updates on what&#8217;s going on as we try to move forward with our immediate plans. I found out that we do need a permit from the city to demolish the add-on. I got the necessary paperwork and will be filling it out today. I hope the permit isn&#8217;t too expensive. I called around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,37,11,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}