What to do?

It is now week 18, week 23 we have an agreement that the house will be delivered.

They have not yet signed with anyone to do the foundation. Don't you all think with all right that I soon can start to be a bit irritaded. Just a tiny bit :) this will soon go over to an angry reaction that the people we have paid to do this won't do their job to our standard. Or to a standard you could expect with the amount of money that are involved.
Maybe it is not fair to think like that, i don't know.

Anyone that have experince of slow workers and prmises broken? : )
Maybe that is a rule in this business and just an exeption if it actually goes as planned.

Have a lovely Valborg everyone!

As time goes by...

... we at this moment are just waiting.

We have not yet got a date for when the house will come. But more important, and what is annoying us a bit is that we do not know when the work with the foundation will start and more important we don't even know who is doing it. We are hoping for the company that did the road. Cause we are so pleased with that.

Hope something happens soon :)

The spring has arrived!

The swedish spring is finally here and i hope it will stay. Make the trees and grass green. The birds singing (listen to the video below). It is so lovely.

We went to the land today and it so nice you wish the house was there. You do not want to leave days like this.

Then we went into the city. These days you do think Stockholm is wonderful (below it is a few pitures from that aswell)Everyone seems to have put their sunglasses on and decided to sit in the sun. It is like when the bears wake up and go out from their hibernation.

City pictures:
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Land pictures:
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Final inspection, date is set : )

Today we were at Myresjöhus to go through everything, contract, drawings all additional orders.
Two hours of interesting and good information it was. A few things they had missed that had to be changed. It seems more real for every day that goes by.

The final inspection of the house is set to November 28, 2008. So it is possible it could be sooner. So exciting! But not yet a date for the deliver of the house.

The person that will be our main contact seems to be a guy that knows what he is doing, so we feel confident it will work out good.

A few of the things that now has to be done.

* sign contract for the water
* go through all the sockets that are placed on the outside walls, see if they are where we want them to be
* read the contract and look at the drawings again see that all is ok

I must say i enjoy reading everything on vibyggerhus.se alot of good advice and things to look out for.

We have a road!!

Before:


After:


It feels really good to get back to the land and see that things are happening. And they have done such a good job.

If I have to find something negative it is that we have to use explosives, you see on what on the second picture below in the slideshow. Was not such a big surprise, but we hoped it should not be necessary.


Tomorrow friday we are going to meet the house builders for the final meeting befor the house is delivered. A lot of questions have been written down to make sure nothing is forgotten.


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Roadworks day 3-10

All this with the road was too much so we decided to take a break... :) not really, it is still fun and exiting,but we had a holiday planned so a week away from the mud to sunny England.


We have been all over it feels like, Deal, Doncaster, Canterbury (went on a historic boatride, lovely old town), Ramsgate to name a few. And also passing through a few small villages, in the search for a perfect pub :) Stodmarch, Fordwich, Ash and some others. Found a vineyard with great english wine.

We had great weather most days, had our english breakfast, fish and chips and a lovley roast. Can't complain about the food nor the drinks :)

But a week is just a week, back to the mud and they have done a great job with the road.

Below you can see a few of the photos we took

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Roadworks continue

Today it was the second day on the land with all digging and taking down trees, it is so much fun to see it progress and it is doing that quite quickly.

Some decisions to make, such as where to put the big rocks they have dug up. Suggestions?

Today it was not the nice weather we had saturday, but it can't always be sunshine, just hope it won't come snow and make the work slow down.

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And now it has started : )

Today was the day they started with all the work for the road and taking down the trees. And they had done quite a bit when we went out to have a look today.

It is so exciting to see that it is finally happening something on the land.

Below you can see the pictures from today

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The wildlife

Today on the land we talked to one of the neighbours about what kind of animals he has seen out there.

We could see alot of ants nests, spiders and a few dead frogs on the road. But this is what makes the land so much more, you get the peace and quiet and live near the nature.


Deers, but that we knew, have seen a few going out there

photo: wikipedia.se

Green woodpecker, it was quite big holes in the ants nests and he thought it be that or..

photo: wikipedia.se

...badger could be the one eating the ants



photo :wikipedia.se


He also said that some people had seen swine, but he had not so we don't know


photo: wikipedia.se

They have seen a few elks, he said that a few years ago a elk cow had to be killed cause she was really tame and came right up to the houses, and destroyed things


Photo: wikipedia.se

And Monday April 7th it starts !!!

Yesterday the contract with the company that will do the road and take down the trees was signed and after that we all went down to the land to meet the guy that will actually do the work. They are all really good guys that we feel trust in, which is important when it is a big project.

Today, a lovely sunny April day, we went out to the land to mark the trees we want taken down and then we inspected and took pictures of the road that goes out to the land. It is a small community so we are all responsible for the condition of the road. Any damaged has to be paid by all of us that use the road so when all the heavy lorrys will be driving to the land we have to be sure who causes the damage.

Like i said before it is alot of different things to think about. But we still think it is fun and interesting : )

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