May 22, 2005 A Quick Update

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Foundation

We officially started the foundation today. David and my father marked the excavation lines with string and chalk.

The footing depths won't be dug until Wednesday. We hired a guy to top off & trim our Eucalyptus trees. This way he and the trees will be out of the way when we do the foundation.

We also have another foundation contractor. Our GC ran into a foundation contractor and invited him to bid on our project. He came in at $20,000 which was $4000 lower than our last bid. We're also saving another $3500 by hiring the excavator ourselves. The extra money will give us some breathing room.

Total cost of foundation: $16,500

A marked improvement over our $27,000 bids last month.

Fixtures

We're about a week or two away from receiving our Ikea order, our flooring and other miscellaneous fixtures. There are still more items that we need to order for the stitch up work.

Factory Progress

Framing, plumbing & electrical is completed on the house. I anticipate that there will be more photos when our third payment is due.