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Heck with dealing with government depts. and vet bills, life certainly does throw some curve balls at us. I too have been going through hell in the last 12 months but it is all the little positives I find in living each day that helps me through the dark times. Hang in there guys, there is light at the end of the tunnel, we just have to work our way towards it.

Sorry Wes to hear of your issues getting your new building up. I have had many issues in the county I used to live in with their wait, persistent inconsistency to follow their own codes and knowing their own laws. The county I live in now is so much more laid back and easy to deal with. The first time I filed for a permit here, I thought they were joking when they approved it within 3 days.

Picked up permits yesterday

!!!!YeeeHaaww!!!!


Now to see if any of the contractors I've previously contacted are available to do the work.

Originally Posted by Fauxre

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Now to see if any of the contractors I've previously contacted are available to do the work.

I though I was being flippant with that last remark.

As it turned out only one of the concrete contractors, that had previously bid the project, even bothered to respond with their availability. One out of eight!

I am however, very pleased with who I ended up using. Instead of questioning the over engineered nature of my plans (like most of the others did), he and his two sons simply built a massively strong foundation.

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Waiting now for our nephew, who's a general contractor, to create a materials list from my plans, so I can price the lumber.

Good luck with it! A friend of mine that lives in Missouri is having a really hard time finding a contractor to build them a house. I was really surprised by that.

Hey Wes hope you guys didn't have to evacuate during the fires.
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Glad to hear you got the slab done and to your specs!

Not sure why my pics won’t upload like they used to. Photobucket charges now for hosting images, so I won’t be going that route. I’ll work on it.

We’re a couple of ridges away from the fires. No evacuations here, but we did get a lot of smoke and ash blowing around like snow though. How about you?

Same here ash, smoke and threats of evacuation, but the weather gods spared us too!

Ok... images in prior post should be working now.

Originally Posted by stovens

Same here ash, smoke and threats of evacuation, but the weather gods spared us too!

We did have an evacuation about a month before the Napa fires. We had three separate fires in our neighborhood this summer. One burned two houses to the ground across the road from us. I was in Washington watching on the news. There was a fire engine parked in our driveway waiting for the tall grass directly across from our property to catch. The fireman said that if it caught, there would be no saving that house. He said we weren't in much danger because I keep everything cut short at our place. Our PVC fence might melt though.

I have been looking at external hard drives and found amazon has seagate 8 tb back up plus desk top drices for 180.00 8 terabites will hold a lot pics I don't know how many but I have been using idrive back up for yers at 70.00 per year and I think I will pull the triger on one of these soon anybody have any feed back on this idea

Originally Posted by ted dehaan

I have been looking at external hard drives and found amazon has seagate 8 tb back up plus desk top drices for 180.00 8 terabites will hold a lot pics I don't know how many but I have been using idrive back up for yers at 70.00 per year and I think I will pull the triger on one of these soon anybody have any feed back on this idea

My main computer has a 1tb hard drive and I use a Toshiba 1tb external for a back up. The back up is barely 1/3 full and I have a ton of pictures and some 2000 songs on the hard drive. IMHO, 8tb is extreme overkill though you'll never run out of space, 2tb is more than enough. And FWIW, I've never had any good luck with Seagate hard drives. Most of mine are WD's.

Staples sells a bunch of TB backup hard drives that are small and yet hold a ton of information. I've been using a 70 dollar one for the last 5 years or so. Well worth it as we recently found out with threats of mandatory evacuations for the fires, very simple small one wire to unplug power, one usb port and you have a small backup of everything on your pc ready to go in seconds, vs. pulling apart and trying to disconnect everything from the desk top. Plus if you get hacked, you don't have to pay ransonm to get your stuff unlocked just use the back up drive!

Nice slab. After living on the East side of Petaluma I realize what soil can do! I'm envious of your work space!

Yeah, we're all cursed with the same expansive clay soil. The floor is actually floating, not dowelled into the stem walls, to allow for all the soil movement. Hence it was almost twice as expensive as a monolithic slab foundation.

Yikes , but worth it!