Hi all,
So finally we are all permitted. $3100.00 later.... that's for building permits alone!
AND that goon inspector that wanted mechanical drawings for my walk-in was vetoed by his boss. I GET my walk in! Julie 1 government worker 0.
My hood is installed, the IT guy was out today. So I'll be wired in no time and the floor will be ready to be poured the 1st week of December. We are on schedule & under budget. Pretty cool!!!!
If you ask, I'll give you the name of the building plan check guy to avoid. I hear he's wreaking havoc everywhere AND being vetoed each time. All he does is cause delays.
That's all for now,
We'll talk again soon,
Julie
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Construction
Hi there,
It's so exciting! The contractors have taken over. Every day new things appear in my space. It's so fun to watch the progress. My office is all framed and I'm using it as storage for some of my catering items.
Some incredibly great news is we are on budget and maybe even under budget. You read it right UNDER budget! I LOVE DAN LEVY CONSTRUCTION.
I really want an epoxy life deck style flooring which from Dan Levy's sub was going to cost $12,000.00. My folks have that kind of floor in their garage so I checked with their contractor, making sure they understood skid resistance and commercial/health building dept requirements and it looks like I'll save $6000 using them! I bet Levy construction has a new flooring guy to refer.
The walk-in still isn't resolved. I thought we were all good with my walk-in choice and I find out there's a crazy guy (imagine that crazy & city employee in the same breath) signing off on my building plans. He wants mechanical drawings for my walk-in. Now, no one & I mean no one from the contractor, superintendent, designer, installer even a friend who works in the county's planning dept. has ever heard of this request. So our plan runner, Terri (who is a wizard) is going over this clown's head to get an answer as to really? and why?
More good news is I thought I was required by the fire marshal to have in addition to my ansul system a remote monitoring system. Looks like I don't!
Here's how the crazy code reads.... if you have a building that has fire sprinklers, you also need a monitoring system (if the ansul system can't handle the fire, the sprinklers deploy and in addition, an alarm is sounded at the alarm company)
BUT if you don't have sprinklers, you don't need the monitoring system (if I have a fire & the ansul can't handle it, the whole place burns ... no fire sprinklers and no alarm company monitoring)
Good news, it saves me $2000.00.
I sure am glad I forwarded that good luck Buddha email! I attribute all my good fortune to that email.
(ooh, is she kidding or not?)
we'll talk again soon,
Julie
website is up!!!!
www.justcalluskitchenrental.com
It's so exciting! The contractors have taken over. Every day new things appear in my space. It's so fun to watch the progress. My office is all framed and I'm using it as storage for some of my catering items.
Some incredibly great news is we are on budget and maybe even under budget. You read it right UNDER budget! I LOVE DAN LEVY CONSTRUCTION.
I really want an epoxy life deck style flooring which from Dan Levy's sub was going to cost $12,000.00. My folks have that kind of floor in their garage so I checked with their contractor, making sure they understood skid resistance and commercial/health building dept requirements and it looks like I'll save $6000 using them! I bet Levy construction has a new flooring guy to refer.
The walk-in still isn't resolved. I thought we were all good with my walk-in choice and I find out there's a crazy guy (imagine that crazy & city employee in the same breath) signing off on my building plans. He wants mechanical drawings for my walk-in. Now, no one & I mean no one from the contractor, superintendent, designer, installer even a friend who works in the county's planning dept. has ever heard of this request. So our plan runner, Terri (who is a wizard) is going over this clown's head to get an answer as to really? and why?
More good news is I thought I was required by the fire marshal to have in addition to my ansul system a remote monitoring system. Looks like I don't!
Here's how the crazy code reads.... if you have a building that has fire sprinklers, you also need a monitoring system (if the ansul system can't handle the fire, the sprinklers deploy and in addition, an alarm is sounded at the alarm company)
BUT if you don't have sprinklers, you don't need the monitoring system (if I have a fire & the ansul can't handle it, the whole place burns ... no fire sprinklers and no alarm company monitoring)
Good news, it saves me $2000.00.
I sure am glad I forwarded that good luck Buddha email! I attribute all my good fortune to that email.
(ooh, is she kidding or not?)
we'll talk again soon,
Julie
website is up!!!!
www.justcalluskitchenrental.com
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Moving Forward
Hello, it’s been so long since I’ve written.
Several things have happened. I took the last vacation of my life. I went to Puerto Vallarta from 5 days.
I finally got the keys and I had a small “groundbreaking” party at the kitchen.
While I was gone, the demo was completed.
Monday was the open house and Tuesday at 8:30am, I met the auctioneer at the kitchen & he took all the tables, booths and unwanted equipment. He estimates that the junk will bring about $2000.00. Now I’m not sure how much of that I’ll get. Maybe $500.
Aaah, city, county, planning, waste water, mechanical, building… you’re asking about the status of permits.
There is fairly positive news there.
I expedited the county health dept permitting which means the price doubles AND I get the preliminary plans back in 4 or 5 days rather than 21 to 28 days.
Simultaneously, plans went to waste water, mechanical and city building for their plan check assessments.
County health had 3 minor corrections, which will cost me $283.00 (finding errors or the need for corrections is their way to make money)
Waste water is fine and no charge there.
City planning… I’m not sure what they charged for the 1st submittal and all corrections are free. The gal there “found” 35 “corrections” which had she bothered to open the plans and actually LOOK at them, she would have seen the information was already there in plain sight.
Mechanical went nuts and poor Sam has tons of work from them. He has changes to plumbing, electrical all that stuff.
I should have the contractor’s proposal by Friday and all the corrected plans will be resubmitted to everyone simultaneously for final approval. If all goes well (no reason to believe it won’t), we will begin construction middle of next week.
Stay tuned for the anguished scream of terror when I receive the contractor’s proposal.
We’ll talk again soon,
Julie
Several things have happened. I took the last vacation of my life. I went to Puerto Vallarta from 5 days.
I finally got the keys and I had a small “groundbreaking” party at the kitchen.
While I was gone, the demo was completed.
Monday was the open house and Tuesday at 8:30am, I met the auctioneer at the kitchen & he took all the tables, booths and unwanted equipment. He estimates that the junk will bring about $2000.00. Now I’m not sure how much of that I’ll get. Maybe $500.
Aaah, city, county, planning, waste water, mechanical, building… you’re asking about the status of permits.
There is fairly positive news there.
I expedited the county health dept permitting which means the price doubles AND I get the preliminary plans back in 4 or 5 days rather than 21 to 28 days.
Simultaneously, plans went to waste water, mechanical and city building for their plan check assessments.
County health had 3 minor corrections, which will cost me $283.00 (finding errors or the need for corrections is their way to make money)
Waste water is fine and no charge there.
City planning… I’m not sure what they charged for the 1st submittal and all corrections are free. The gal there “found” 35 “corrections” which had she bothered to open the plans and actually LOOK at them, she would have seen the information was already there in plain sight.
Mechanical went nuts and poor Sam has tons of work from them. He has changes to plumbing, electrical all that stuff.
I should have the contractor’s proposal by Friday and all the corrected plans will be resubmitted to everyone simultaneously for final approval. If all goes well (no reason to believe it won’t), we will begin construction middle of next week.
Stay tuned for the anguished scream of terror when I receive the contractor’s proposal.
We’ll talk again soon,
Julie
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