Day 7-11

The first on-site annoyance has happened. On the 7^th day there was not rest. Instead someone from the demo crew parked a trailer in the alley and blocked my neighbor’s truck—on a Friday afternoon. To clarify, this is a dead-end alley. You can only get in and out from one direction. I called my contractor and he cursed and then apologized. He said he specifically told the lead not to block the alley. I’m sure this is true and it was someone other than the lead who parked the trailer, but what type of person knowingly blocks someone in? I’ll tell you what type. The type who wears sunglasses like these and leaves them behind:


And to prove my knowingly-blocks-someone-in point, below is a photo of the trailer and my neighbor’s truck. If you stand where the trailer is you can definitely see the truck. Also, it’s not as though he just backed in and left. He and a few other guys (as told by another neighbor) unloaded a bunch of their materials and then hung out for a little bit.


The trailer wasn’t moved until Saturday morning. Fortunately my neighbor didn’t need his truck Friday night. When they moved it they replaced it with a Bobcat. It barely fit on our side of the alley, but cars and trucks can get through.

As of Day 11 we’re still at a stand-still. I had hoped demo would begin today. Yesterday our contractor let us know our plot drawing was holding up progress. The plot changed since we bought the house (the second garage was removed, our driveway was shortened, and we added a limestone patio). Our contractor failed to note the driveway was shortened, so the issue the City has is impervious cover. We’re at 33% impervious cover and the City only allows 40%. Our contractor has to prove the driveway has been shortened otherwise I imagine we’re close to 40% impervious cover. He sent photos to the permit person yesterday, but until they respond we can’t do anything. It’s frustrating since this is a short work week. We hope demo can still start this week, but we won’t count on it.