Dometastic

We are in mid March and the sudden arrival of Corona Virus has disrupted everyone's lives. Our town has shut down everything but the essentials until the end of this month with the possibility of extending it. I don't have official word yet but I believe our build will now be delayed. My guess is that these two weeks will go by and they will choose to extend the shut down. This will most likely effect the town departments including building inspections. Our builder is coming from 2000k miles away so shut downs are an issue. I would imagine they are not going to risk the extra cost of potential delays related to shut downs. Our set contract price means every extra day will cost them more of their profit margin. So, like many other people, our lives are in a holding pattern. In the mean time progress still continues. We received the airform shop drawings and gave them the thumbs up to continue. The below image is a rendering of the airform off of the shop drawing document. T...

Winter break comes to a close and we gain back one hour of daylight. We are starting to get things ready and check things off our homework list. The first nice weekend day we finished grading the interior of the foundation. This was something we tried to finish last fall but didn't quite finish. It is now all set for the builders. We have a little more dirt moving to do on the exterior but it should be done soon. The first building materials have arrived AND Monolithic is making our airform! We received the airform review image. This was created after the builder came out to meet us and take measurements. It's cool but a bit confusing to look at because it is drawn as if transparent. The first supplies to arrive are the things we have to supply that are not included in our contract but will be installed by the builders. The first to arrive were the optional safety anchors for the top of each dome. They look like they belong bolted to a dock with large commerc...