Day One…….
Today is the first day in our cottage being raised. We had 1 week to get a storage/shop/shed (Graceland on 603 in Bay St. Louis) put on to our property. We had to take out everything in our cottage so MEMA and TL Wallace can move our cottage over to the side so they can dig the trenches and put pilings down with cement. They will be bolting our cottage to its new foundation after the cement has hardened for 3 to 4 days. So far all they have done is cut the straps and moved all the blocks from under the cottage. They arrived here this morning at 7 am and it is 11:10 now. I guess I need to go over and see what is going on.
12:05pm Monday August 31, 2009
The A/C man just arrived. Hopefully it wont be long now.
12:15 pm
The Cable man finally came to unhook the cable. They said they would be here at 8 am this morning (WE would be the first ones on the list today) to cut our cable off at the pole. I guess being late is better then not comming at all. The MEMA guy who does the mesureing of the property has been going round and round, mesureing every little square inch of our property. Mesureing over and over, takeing down numbers after numbers. They did move ourcottage over to the side of where it will finally go. We are moving up 4 feet (City said we had to) and 6 feet over to the side (incase the city lets us get a tag/add on/pod) so we will have the right variance on the side. So many people here watching. While others are doing the work. Supervisors from every nook and cornor, plus passres by slowing down to see and others stopping on the side of the road and watching. Some came from the bar on coleman just to watch. So much construction going on between us and coleman. Work trucks and crews everywhere. Just a few lots down from us, someone is having a house built. Good to see another house going up in this place. Only 5 (counting ours) on our street and now another one. Great for the city of Waveland.
3:pm…….
The guys who are going to dig the trenchs and put in the pilings are here. It;s now 4:30 pm and finally they are marking off the area where the construction will be going on. Hubby is home and he’s getting filled in on what is going to happen.
More tomorrow.
