Permits and Drawings

We submitted drawings for our living room remodel permit on Wednesday. The structural engineer had finished the calculations on Monday which allowed the drawings to be finished. If anyone is interested, here are copies of the drawings that were submitted.

We submitted for a ROW (Right-of-Way) permit on Thursday (today). This Friday we are renting a tractor-creature with front loader and back-hoe attachments to bulldoze the back yeard and dig a trench for a French-drain and drain line that will connect into a catch basin at the end of our driveway in the ROW (thus the permit). The ROW inspector actually came out this morning and looked at the catch basin and told us how to connect into it. He said to core-drill a hole as high in the catch basin wall as I felt comfortable with, stick my 4 inch pipe in, and then patch the hole with a quick setting concrete. Guess where we spent our evening. Answer: picking up supplies.

The French-drain will hopefully catch a lot of the water that lands in our back yard and direct it to the street and away from our house. We will also connect some of our down spouts into the French-drain. Unfortunately, we won’t know if this tactic works until this winter. But there’s no reason for it not to.