Well, there is not much news to report this week. Spring is coming quickly to South West Saskatchewan. We went from -41 degrees Celsius on March 1, to 12 degrees less than two weeks later. Fortunately, I would say our snowfall this winter was average to good, but not extreme, otherwise there could be tons of water and flooding issues with the melt happening this quickly. It still could happen, but I am not anticipating the flooding that happened two years ago.
In terms of building, I contacted Future Steel Buildings to arrange a date for delivery of my building. I misunderstood here, thinking that it was up to me to arrange a delivery date. It turns out, that was only if I wanted to take early delivery of the building. Future Steel does offer a 50 dollar incentive in the form of a gas gift card to anyone that can take early delivery. I guess it helps them to move out inventory and clear up floor space in their warehouses. Unfortunately I could not realistically have the building delivered in March with spring barely emerging. Delivery would have to be in April. I would have even preferred to have it delivered after I have the foundation done but that can’t happen without incurring further charges.
So for now, I am in a bit of a holding pattern. There are a couple of decisions I have to make in the coming week:
1. How do I want to finance the remainder of the building? Future Steel wants payment by certified cheque or bank draft upon delivery. Since I deal with ING direct, it might take a little while for a draft to arrive.
2. I have to decide if I want to install Flextherm’s Green Cable Concrete. There are no local dealers for this product. I would have to order it from Regina and even at that it might take a bit of time to arrive. I am anticipating (hoping) that the foundation will be done in May
3. Storage – Future Steel informed me that my building will arrive on two skids that will take up 4 X 12 X 3 cubic feet of space. They said that it could be stored on a deck and covered with a good tarp. I am going to double check again to make sure that our deck will hold up to that much weight. My first reaction was “no problem” but then it hit me that that is the entire building on my deck. Double checking is a good idea.
I am a teacher by trade, and am blessed to be able to have meaningful work to do on a daily basis. Having grown up on a farm however, I am looking forward to the physical nature of this project while at the same time sharing (and teaching) my story.
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