Looks like I’ll get the “keys” (the place is unlocked and empty) to my house a day before we go back to the US for the better part of a month. Tuesday I sign the loan documents and on the eighth I’ll sign the final papers.
A builder/contractor/designer is already working on some drafts for the renovations. I had to spend an hour last week poring over three separate spools of microfiche (ugh) to find all the architectural and structural plans to my house. I printed these and gave them to the builder.
Finding the plans was a chore. My house is a part of a large project. For any house their are two sets of plans, structural and architectural. I had to find a master map of the project, realize my house was a “Type B” home, and then read through the whole project’s plans, pulling out anything that was general or for Type B homes. It appears that the diagrams for a type B home are for the left-hand side homes, and mine is a right, so all my blueprints have to be reversed when you read them. A further nuisance is that errata are filed against the original plans. In my case, my project had three tiers of errata for both the architectural and structural plans.
Hopefully I pulled out 98% of what I should have. I am sure I missed a piece here or there. If so, tough, my contractor can go retrieve whatever is missing or wrong.
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Can you post the plans?