Language barrier

I have hit the language barrier. I have realised that I do not know enough English building terms to be able to stick to English. From now on I will use Swedish.

Building permission

Today we got the permission to build. It only took 11 weeks ;-)

Bureaucracy

After we applied for "bygglov" on September 21st, we have now received a receipt from Stadbyggnadskontoret. The receipt is dated the 22nd, the poststamp is the 27th and we received it on the 28th.

It is fun reading ;-)

ASKER 4 Uppf av garage/förråd samt 3 nya takkupor, 4 nya takfönster.

Stadsbyggnadskontoret har registrerat Er ansökan enligt ovan.

Vi behandlar inkomna ansökningar i datumordning och kommer att kontakta Er för eventuella kompletteringar eller synpunkter på inlämnat material när handläggning påbörjats.

Handläggare är ännu ej utsedd.

Allmänna frågor besvaras under telfontid mån-fre 10-12 av:
granskningsingenjör NN
granskningsingenjör NN
arkitekt NN
arkitekt NN

Med vänlig hälsning

STADSBYGGNADSKONTORET I LUND
expeditionen

The drawings

Here are the new drawings. We like the proposal a lot. The architects, Bjartmar & Hylta Arkitekter, have done a great job.

Good luck!

“Good luck!” is what everyone is telling us when we say that we want to move to Hagalund in January 2007. I can’t help noticing a lot of irony in the whishes ;-)

It seems that people are very pessimistic when it comes to contracting a builder.
We will not let that be a hindrance though. My tendencies to act as a badger might come in handy :-)

A room with a view

This is the view westward towards Malmö from upstairs.

Väntan

När får vi in offerterna tro?