Dometastic

For many frustrating weeks we were firmly stuck while the engineer and the rebar shop went back and forth with shop drawings. Now we have cleared the hurdle and are set to go back to real work! Since we had finished the footer forms we spent our time doing odd jobs on the land and unfortunatly fixing storm damage. More on that but we can all cheer now because we finally have REBAR! The shop drawings are done and the rebar for the footer has arrived. Unfortunately they forgot part of our order so we have to pick it up this afternoon to start tomorrow as planned. At least it is available to pick up and it won't cause more delays. The next week or two will be busy ones as we get the rebar all set in our footer forms, pour and then start our stem walls. It took 7 weeks of revisions and fulfilling the order to get our footer rebar. During this time mother nature was not nice to us. We had several severe flash flooding storms that partially washed out our footer forms. Wi...

We are done with the footer forms with the exception of adding all the rebar. There is a lot of rebar so we still have our work cut out for us but at least all the curved and overlapping form work is complete. Now we wait.... and wait.... oh and wait some more while the engineers go back and forth with the rebar supplier over the shop drawings. We are delayed ordering our rebar by about 4 weeks and counting. Ordering rebar has turned into a series revisions. Shop drawings continue to be a way bigger deal than we anticipated. They had to be revised according to the engineers directions and ultimately need to be approved by the engineers. When I look at how everything has gone so far I can definitely point to the engineering part of this process as the biggest PITA...so far. Every time the engineers need to be consulted it means huge delays. I don't think it is our engineers specifically. I think it is the nature of building a house that needs specific engineering. Our case is ...