Things are progressing across the street. Many years ago, we were young parents with a little guy who was obsessed with construction. Watching this build would have been heaven for him!
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| Digging finished....ready for cement |
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| Living this close, your section of the street becomes a construction site. |
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| There are numerous deliveries of materials, often resulting in blocked driveways for the neighbours. |
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| Those are the foundation forms out on the street. |
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| Even the neighbours' driveway was used when they had to rescue a Bobcat that flipped over. |
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| Steel beam delivery. Some of the vehicles leak oil on the street. |
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| Wood delivery. The sidewalk will have to be replaced. It's all cracked. |
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| At last, the ground floor. It's time to say goodbye to the house that backs onto the new one. |
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The house behind it disappears from our view.
With this first wall up at the back of the house, I realize that neighbour will lose her privacy. After a lifetime of facing a green, overgrown yard and a tiny old house, she will now be confronted by these big back windows.
So, as of yesterday, here is the new house!
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So what can I say? Mostly that we are grateful for small mercies. Yes, it's a much bigger house than what we are used to looking at. However, they didn't seek any variances from the city regulations. They have built within those guidelines. It is not taller than the house on the left and mercifully, it does not have a flat roof. Who would have known that I would be happy to see a slightly sloped roof on a new house, as if it were a novelty?
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