Objects on paper appear smaller than they are.

Today… the day discussed yesterday when musing if I’d sign for the property tomorrow. And the answer? Heck if I know. Papers did not to go escrow quite as expected because what locals call NW Thatcher Rd, the name it was know for until all the houses and lots were renumbered for 9-1-1 addressing, conflicted with the US Postal Service that said, “No, we dropped the NW.”

Never-the-less, I’ve been drawing up my plans. Amazing how many kinds of plans they expect. Not only is there the floor plans we all can identify, but there are the elevations– that’s the look of the place from the outside, plot plan, foundation plans, joist plans for the floor, door and window plans, joist plans for the ceiling, cut-away plans, the footer plans and then there are the truss plans. I am SO glad I don’t have to draw the truss plans; that’s the job of the guys constructing the trusses. OH! There’s the electrical and plumbing plans too but those are reviewed by the county not the city so that’s a whole other packet of approvals. One piece of advice: always plan your additions to be 30 ft. x 30 ft. or less. Why? Because you have to produce them in a 1/4 inch scale and at that size, it just barely fits on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. “No biggie,” you say, “I could just use a legal sheet of paper if I built 30 ft. x 50 ft.” Au contraire mon ami, the submission guidelines specify either letter size paper, or that HUGE house plan paper you see all rolled up under some contractor’s arm. Inefficient? yes. But not my worry. My addition is 27’6 x 30.

I’m off to my day job which I really do love. But hopefully sometime today, I’ll get a call from escrow and leave that job for the afternoon to close on a house.