Friday, May 27, 2005

Mystery Solved

A lone carpenter was still working when we went walking through the "construction project" this afternoon. We stopped and asked him what happened as we found this to be very unusual.

He said that the house was built from plans that had been used for a previously constructed single-family dwelling but it was NOT the plans selected by the family who have PRE-BOUGHT this particular house which faces the pond that was built for storm water control. The family was given the option of:

1. Leaving it on at an increased cost (I guess $15,000 and the carpenter said, "More like $50,000!),

2. Buy one of two OTHER single family dwellings that are either already built or nearing completion

3. Having it taken off.

You guessed it:

They chose Option 3! They are going to pour a new wall to close off the entrance to the "cellar" under what will now become a very well-supported deck!

And I thought that it looked really nice WITH that extra room. We regretted, when we had gotten home, that we hadn't taken the camera to get a picture of this unusual construction project.

1 Comments:

At 1:54 PM, Blogger Cheryl said...

Even if they are saving the additional $50k, it must have cost a pretty penny to have that addition removed and house reworked. An expensive boo-boo indeed.

 

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