Friday, October 9, 2009 - Open Your Wallet

Time for our first additional cost overrun on the project. Sigh. Cara stopped by the house around lunchtime and called me saying all of the equipment was gone, which was odd because they certainly were not done excavating yet. It didn’t seem like a real good sign to me. Shortly thereafter I heard back from our contractor who told me no work was being done today since the engineer said a little extra work needs to be done to secure the foundation and the architect was having to adjust the plans. Cha-ching. Apparently the foundation of our existing house is not as deep as the architect thought, so when the contractor started digging, he was smart enough to check once he was within five feet of the house. He brought the project to a grinding halt in order to keep our house from falling into the eight-foot crater we used to call our backyard. One week into the project and already we are three days behind schedule and a yet-to-be-determined amount over-budget. Not a good start.…And it rained.