July / August 2007 - Abandon Garage/Apt Plan

We were busy, but still doing everything we could to keep on top of the engineer, trying to get plans completed and submitted to the city for review as soon as possible. However, nothing we did seemed to help and it was always promises, promises, and more promises and no results. Apparently, the engineer had continued to push our project to the bottom of his list when bigger projects came in. 3 weeks had become 5 months and it quickly became apparent we were not going to be able to finish before the winter snow. Finally, after really pressuring him, the engineer worked on our project, but after all that waiting, it turned out that according to the city engineer, it wasn't feasible to build the way we wanted. On top of being unbelievably slow, the engineer had made several mistakes along the way and as a result we were pretty much screwed. We were very frustrated, but after Jeff presented him with the facts proving his incompetence at least he refunded our money. And, after revaluating we decided that abandoning the garage/apt plan and just building the log home was a better way to go anyway. I guess it all happens for a reason...