Latest update: Got the proposed contract, work list from the reclamation company. I should have the check on the buildings in my hand by the middle of next week, and the down payment check in the builders hand within 48 hours after that. I'm hoping to have the house back in proper shape by Christmas, the rebuilding of the garage to start shortly afterwards (if it hasn't started already by that point).
This is going to be interesting, because while the shell will probably be identical (had considered having to expand it into a two-car garage, but that'd take a loan, and I'm not exactly in the mood to go into debt, the inside is getting some serious thinking based on my Montpelier bike shop, and what I had to work with in the current building. The builders will be leaving me with an exterior finished, interior completely unfinished, completely wired including two 230v outlets, one inside, one outside. My plans for my next car is a a used Nissan Leaf or Kia Soul EV, so I want the setup built in for Level 2 charging.
Interior paneling, insulation (should I decide to) and finishing a storage loft will be up to me. After which, one huge new toolbox and workbench. Then I start the serious tool shopping.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)