We got the phone call today saying that our building permit has successfully made it through the review process, so now all we have to do is go in and pick it up! (and pay for it...) ;) That feels good. I don't know why we were both expecting there to be hiccups in this part, but it went as smooth as smooth can be!
We "celebrated" by sending Matt to Menards to pick up a few items that were on sale this week. If we can save a few hundred dollars here and there it will help to offset the few hundred dollars here and there that we're anticipating coming up as we go through. (Paint. An exhaust fan for the bathroom. Things like that.)
So we now have:
1) the sink for the bathroom (that we purchased a while ago)
2) some random electrical outlets and switches from earlier this year
3) Pex tubing for the plumbing (but not the radiant heat tubing yet, because that isn't on sale this week)
4) rigid insulation in two of the four sizes that we need for the project. Matt pointed out today that the two sizes that we need first for the job (the stuff that goes under the basement slab and the stuff that goes on the basement walls) was the stuff that was on sale today, and the two sizes that we don't need until later in the construction were NOT on sale today. How about that? ;)
5) AND 150 bags of cellulose insulation to be blown in at a later date.
It's exciting having some of these real things starting to accumulate!
Depending on weather, we're looking at starting the excavation the first week of June.
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