Architectural Drawing

Today before lunch, we sent-out our GO signal that we are done with all the floor plans of our house. The friendly and nice CAD Frau K. of Gussek, confirmed that she will start the Building Application (Bauantrag) on the next day. I hope it will not take too long before we will receive it.

We are looking forward to our overnight stay in Nordhorn, though we are presently having issues about it, due to our two lil boys. It would be perfect if we will just stay in Centerparcs with their grandparents. And then hubby and I will drive to Nordhorn on the day of the Bemusterung.

In the meantime, we are now getting all possible quotations for the heating system, flooring, materials for the bath and WC, wallpaper, doors and many more. We would like to compare the prices of ProHaus and the ones that we will get locally. This is important for us, since we will be working the inside part of the house.

Second Preliminary Draft and Updates

Yesterday, after changing some minor mistakes and adding our new wishes, we received the second preliminary draft of our dreamhouse. Hubby and I were happy about it. We are now working on some minor changes and then hopefully we are done.

This morning, I called Frau K. our CAD from ProHaus/Gussek, who is friendly and nice, and she changed the minor mistakes that we saw and she is now just waiting for our final go.

We are still thinking about changing the Basement floor plan.

We also received a call yesterday from ProHaus to set our Austatungstermin (the date when we are going to visit ProHaus Nordhorn, and choose all the materials for our dream house. For example, the type of roof tiles, the color of our klinker etc). That means shopping!!! We have it at the end of the month. That is not too long from now, so we have a lot of things to accomplish. I still need to get quotations from different companies regarding heating installation, electric installation and plan and many more.

Normally, we will received this invitation after we have signed the Final Draft of our house. But since, the person in charge is already searching for families who would like to set the date, and our final draft will *hopefully* be finished and finalized this week, then it is also good that we will have our date for that.

Lastly, we are working on documents regarding our loan. Hopefully the interest rates will go down down down until we will have our loan approved.

At last! The first Preliminary Draft (erstenVorentwurf) arrived

After almost seven (7) weeks of waiting, the first preliminary draft of our dream house arrived. It has been a long wait and we are happy to finally see it. Unfortunately, there are some mistakes that we directly saw on it. There are points that we talked with our Architect that is not showing on the draft or showing differently on the draft. Some windows are not right. To know that we are only allowed to do changes on the draft three times, it is frustrating that on the first time, we are only correcting the mistakes of what we already previously planned. But since we cannot do anything about it, we will just mention the mistakes and then add our new wishes. Hubby and I need to work on it this coming weekend anyway, so we can send it back as soon as possible. I hope that, it will not take another 7 weeks for the "second and hopefully final draft" to arrive.

Good news is we have this Preliminary Draft that we need to give to the bank for loan approval purposes. Sad news is, the interest rate is going straight up. It would be best if we had the Preliminary draft after three or four weeks (which the building contrator mentioned before) then, we might have the lowest interest rate for our bank loan.

Time wasted...

It is frustrating when you are just waiting for something for weeks and is still not arriving. Normally, ProHaus mentioned a time frame of three (3) weeks after our Architect schedule, to receive the official house plan. UNFORTUNATELY, six (6) weeks is already gone but we still did NOT receive our official house plan. I contacted the main office for several times already and all they can say is that, they received a lot of work, that ours is not yet done. There are a lot of negative effects on us because of this delay. One of it is that our financial loan is waiting for this official house plan, before they can approve it. Bad news? The interest rate for bank loan is rising. Another thing is, we only have until February 2014 for the fix price, and if they are going to treat us just like right now, I doubt that our dreamhouse will be build this year. I cannot wait until this "waiting time" will have an end.

For the time wasted, hubby and I was thinking of minor changes on the house plan. That means, another 6 weeks or even more, to wait after sending it back to them??? *Sigh* Positive energy please!!!

Sewer Rehabilitation and Sewer Connection

We met the Engineer-in-charge of the Sewer Rehabilitation from the City Hall @ 7:30am in the lot where we plan to build our dreamhouse.

This Sewer Rehabilitation was planned last year. Since they are doing one of the sewer which is located in the lot, we are taking advantage of the plan and requested for the sewer connection installation.

When we arrived this morning, the excavator vehicle is already there.

Bought the Land

Tonight, hubby and his parents talked with the Lawyer regarding the land where we will build our house. The land was originally owned by my in-laws. They are selling it to my husband for a special Price.

Architekt Termin (Architect Schedule)

Today at 9am, we met our Architect in the building lot. Then we continued our discussion and planning in our dream house. We were finished after 4 hours of discussion and sharing of ideas, about how we would like our dream house floor plan to be. I didn't even noticed the time. At this point, we just need to wait for four weeks until we will receive the official building plan. For sure there will still be some changes to be made. But I guess, that is ok since we are allowed to do it three times.