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It has been a quiet three weeks on the blog, and at the site, as expected. It was the time of disconnecting things, which occurs somewhat stepwise and is of course necessary before the bulldozer goes in. As I posted last time, we also did some salvage and that has been completed. 

We had to disconnect the electricity, the water, the gas and now the sewer line, and then the City granted us our demolition permit. With that in hand, we are ready to go next week. Only other thing we are waiting on is the completion of the drainage and road resurfacing project that is just completing in our street, and which has been active in our neighborhood for the past year or more. 

As you can see in the attached photo, our driveway is about to be poured, and once it is done, the demo company can get to the house and level it. Since I am traveling a bit in the next couple of weeks, I may not get to video the event as I had hoped, so may have to content myself with an after photo. 

In the meantime we also worked on our first change order, related to the insurance for the project, which came in higher than the budget. From this we learned that budget overages are preferably dealt with on an ongoing basis out of our cash. In other words, the budget we had developed is more than a goal. It represents, line-item by line-item, a limit to funds that are available for a specific expenditure. I guess that makes me glad that we spent a long time working on the budget and so are fairly sure that we are close in most cases. It also makes me hope that the economy doesn't pick up too fast, and drive prices up for labor and materials. Anyway, I will put overages into the ongoing budget that you can see here as we move along.