Dometastic

It has been 8 weeks and counting since we submitted all the paperwork to the town for the dome building permit. It turns out that they have supposedly been emailing me with questions from both building and zoning for about a month. Mr. Dometastic accidentally found this out when he called the building department to ask a barn related question. I didn't get any of the emails and they didn't try to contact me any other way that I am aware of. And NO they are not in my Junk/Spam folder. The weird part is I do get some emails from them just not any of they ones that are holding up the process! I got one from zoning about 2 weeks ago letting me know they were going to visit the site. If we hadn't called with a question about the barn I wonder how long would it have been before they called me?! Eversource has FINALLY put our pole in! The one we paid for last October. It only took them 7 months and more phone calls than I want to count to find out what needed to happen for th...

Every approval has a catch. We received dome plan approval from the health department ... sort of. The plan was approved but we have a list of requirements to fulfill before getting a septic permit. It seems that when we had our site plan created and all the soil tests done things did not accurately get recorded on the plan. We did have 3 revisions to the layout so we are guessing that at some point the picture and the data stopped matching. Unfortunately this involves having the surveyor and engineer back out again. The good thing is we do not have to complete the list right away to have our building plans go to the next stage of review with zoning. The weather is finally dry and nice out. The last few weeks have been tiring and all about dirt and rocks as we prep the barn foundation. When we excavated the barn foundation we dug up a huge boulder. It is big enough that we couldn't pick it up even with the big rental excavator. When we got rid of the main dirt pile we found ...