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Originally Posted by Grumblefoot  Bump 
Any new news? |
Well, since mid-May we've been at a stand-still while redrawing the electrical pages. The story is that the initial plans we got from the electrical engineer were not exactly what we'd asked for (we gave him the answers to the test, so how he screwed it up, I don't know). But we decided to move to permit and then fix the mess later in the process. Well, we didn't quite catch it in time, so by the time we got around to it, things came to a full stop.
The full stop then turned into a delay because, as stated elsewhere, we're trying to be really green in our construction and operation. LED lighting was rumoured to have made several advances since then, so we sent a guy out to the Las Vegas light show in early June, and another guy to another show in late June. The results that came back were consistent: there was nothing new in the LED world that fit with our architecture and aesthetic, so we're sticking with halogens.
We've engaged a new electrical engineer, and we have a meeting scheduled for the end of the month to finalize some new plans. It typically takes a week or so to get new plans approved by the county inspectors, so I expect we'll resume progress by mid August.
The next major milestone (which has remained the next major milestone since mid-May) has been to pour the slab. Hopefully that will be done in August, and then the walls might start coming up in September.
Frustrating!