Change Order #2
Of course right when I said that we shouldn’t find any more surprises... the contractor goes and uncovers a second patio slab below the dirt that was below the larger patio slab that they already removed. Ugh!
Here’s the hidden patio slab that was found. Now you see it... $500 bucks later... now you don’t!
I should mention that we also asked them to remove all of our grass and the concrete mow curb around the border of our yard so that we could re-grade our yard. The old yard sloped to the end of our patio - since the office addition is out to the edge of our old patio, we really don’t want the yard to drain back to our house (that’s never good for the foundation). So we had them scarify the yard so we can re-grade it and have all new irrigation and drainage back there.
We thought we had clay soils... but it turns out we have pretty good dirt back there - so that’s good.
It’s like a blank slate back there now... ready for a pool? Depends on how much of our contingency is left...
Also this week they hopefully completed the abatement of our asbestos vinyl tile flooring. Here you can see they had to encapsulate the openings in the house and create a negative pressure space so that no asbestos dust escapes the house while they are scraping that crap off the slab. In the photo above you can see the vestibule they created to clean the dust off themselves as they enter and exit. I guess our original change order $$ is going to good use. Luckily our GC had plenty of work to do outside this week when he had to stay out of the inside.
Also... good bye lavender bushes, you will be missed, but I would much rather have my master bedroom and ensuite bathroom here... so I guess it’s more like, byyyeeeeeeeee!
Oh hey! Also our skylights arrived! Thanks to Velux for the $1,500 architect discount, and thanks to Matt for letting us store them securely at your house for a couple months until they are ready to be installed in February.
Next week foundation work starts for our front and back additions!!
