Summer is over and winter is approaching much too fast.
Well, it's been four weeks since my last update on 24th September, and my excuse is I have been ridiculously busy with the build, working straight through two weekends without a break. The structure of the building is now essentially complete and almost to lock-up (or weather tight), and much of my focus has been on the transition from my initial main two contractors (Jason Olesen and Bob Damstrom) who were the key players amongst five who got me here, to those others that will now turn the house both into a functioning building (plumbing, gas, heating and electricity) and an eventual turnkey finish. This shift in focus has involved running around dealing with those contractors I had signed with earlier this year for the plumbing, gas, heating and electricity, while engaging other contractors and suppliers to achieve various parts of the finishing. I don't seem to have stopped in four weeks, and much of the planning ahead has become a 24 hours 7 day a week consta...