First Inspection Passed & Finishing Up the Sewer Tap

My building inspection report card. Passed the "pre-build site inspection" and sewer. Signed by city building inspector, Mike. Mike will be my inspector throughout the entire build and signs off on each of the building steps as we go.

Sewer tap is almost complete. These guys were so nice and such hard workers! Today is was 101 (38c) degrees! Thank you, thank you,  to Jes'us and his crew!!

 

Main sewer opened up and water was pumped through the new sewer tap to check for leaks and to make sure the water is freely flowing into sewer main.

The attachment to city sewer

This green pipe with the white lid is the permanent access point. It will get a steel lid placed over it and will be safe to drive over.

Sewer pipe is 4.5' down from pink marker with yellow arrow. The second pink marker (to the south) is exactly 5' away and is a backup marker in case the main marker gets destroyed by all the construction trucks that will be driving over this area. When the house plumbing begins, its sewer pipes will connect to this.

Sewer Tap Progress

Not very exciting to most people but for the sake of documenting every step, here's some plumbing progress.
Today the plumbers started the process of  hooking my, eventual, sewer pipes up to the city's main sewer line. They hope to finish tomorrow (Tuesday) and patch the street on Wednesday or Thursday. So far so good! I also have a Pre-Build meeting on the lot with the city building inspector tomorrow.No sign of the city's water meter hookup which is also scheduled for this week??? The blue markings in the dirt on first picture are where the water meter will go.

Earlier in the day while the plumbers were working. These were taken with my phone and I didn't take a good picture of the actual tap that goes into the main sewer line. Maybe tomorrow if I get there early enough.

Diverting traffic

After the plumbers left for the day. Steel plates cover the 6 foot deep by about 3 feet wide hole.

Big piece of the street there on the right. $$$

6 feet under is the new green sewer plumbing.

Stillness Speaks

All Is

Right Here

Right Now

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Some Progress with Water Meter and Sewer Tap

The process of getting a sewer tap and water meter is finally starting. The street will have to be partially closed and cut into to reach the sewer. All of the utilities got marked so that digging for the sewer tap and water meter can begin. They are supposed to start on Monday and the grading of the dirt is supposed to begin at the end of the week. I may have to delay the grading as they need water and I need one more inspection on the lot by the city before the grading can begin. We'll see....

 One final shot of the lot and its weeds before all the work begins.

Made a temporary address sign.

 Utility locations marked. Yellow is gas. Green is sewer. Blue is water. Orange is fiber-optics. Red is electric.

Plans Approved!

 A day early, but Happy Star Wars Day tomorrow!

I'm very excited to say that the house plans have been approved by the city. I had a very minimal amount of redlines or corrections to make. All of my team (draftsman, structural engineer, civil engineer, and hvac engineer) were very quick with their corrections and I re-submitted the plans within a week. Almost two weeks to the day of re-submittal, the city emailed me that the plans passed and were ready for pick up and permits. One small glitch with picking up the plans is I need to have a class A licensed plumber sign on to install a sewer tap (actually tap into the city's sewer). A class A plumber is turning out to be a rare species and when I do find one they usually only do huge municipal gazillion dollar jobs. But a very nice class A plumber has found another class A plumber for me who is willing to take on such a small job. Hooray for all the nice and helpful people I've met so far! The street in front of the lot will have to be dug up and traffic will have to be diverted. It will be a sight to see, I'll be sure to take pictures. Anyway, here are a few pictures of how the city's redlines looked.

I also went to a book reading by an author I love, Jenny Lawson. Very funny and she is so sweet.

 and a few more pictures of stuff...