sobota, 16 lutego 2013

Finally!!

Finally, we have all the paper work needed for our architect to get started. Yesterday we received conditions of gas hookup and surveyors plans of the property, so we scanned/photocopied those and the water/sewage and electricity company documents and emailed and posted to the architect. Now it's just a matter of time until the architectural plans are done (4 weeks, we hope), and then we apply for a building permit, which can take up to two months to go through (assuming there aren't any problems with the application). So while the paperwork is in, the waiting game hasn't finished...

niedziela, 3 lutego 2013

Still more purchases

Building on a budget we really weren't expecting to have a lot of modern, new nice things in the home...
yet we are in luck.

Reduced from 2499zł to 1699zł, and then to 799zł on Allegro (Polish equivallent of eBay) we have this beautiful ex-display, only very minimally damaged cabinet and vanity with basin and tap Barcelona from Belliani.

At market, these gorgeous modern taps alone are probably worth some 500zł, so we couldn't pass this up.


Now the questions are - how do we get it from Szczecin to Warsaw and where do we keep it?

Mein Kampf


It is really frustrating that week to week something is supposed to be done, but week after week you keep being told to wait longer.

It happened when we were trying to purchase land and it is continuing after that as well. We really thought it would all be downhill after we finally got the land. I mean, seriously, who takes a year to buy a little property?

But no downhills for us. In order to start work on construction plans, our architect needs technical requirements for water, sewage, gas and electricity connections and a topographic (or some sort of) map. These were supposed to take 2-3  weeks, when we applied on December 19.
After Christmas we heard that the officials were probably in holiday-mode and weren't planning to knuckle back down before their Christmas break. Then we heard the same about the New Year's break. After the New Year we were told they'll get into it now, probably 2-3 weeks from now...
and so it's been five weeks and we're waiting.

Meanwhile, our architect is working dilligently to find any and all grants and subsidies to eco-building in Poland and is well researched and in touch all the time. Also, she's 5 months pregnant! And wants to have the blueprints ready for us by the end of February so she can focus on herself and baby in the third trimester, and certainly to have her part behind her by the time baby comes!

So fingers crossed things start picking up pace...