Getting back into to it!!

For all those people who've been wondering why we've not posted in a while it is because of new Job for Chris and just pretty heavy workload happening for both of us at work since September 08! Plus at the same the economic crisis happened and required us to got through a huge amount of paperwork with the Banks for the financing of our house project!!! 

It all started to go pear-shaped getting the finances in October when we were asked to re-apply for the mortgage and get the land re-valued.  Since then it's been a pretty long slog getting all the paper work together again and going through the details that the bank's now require.

Everything was going soooo slowly it was unbelievable that we just concentrated on work while the banks and the Irish economy were going through the motions.  Everything submitted is almost being checked 100 times (well it feels like that) and wrong dates by the valuer as well as incorrect figures on the engineers form compared to mine has all just taken time to re-submit. 

Given most of the bank staff we are dealing with are on part time hours they only look at the file on a Monday or Tuesday.

We are both delighted that the Banks since February seem to be back in business - the cash injection from the government seems to have done the trick nicely!!

We've been given the go but still lots and lots of paperwork as the next stages are with the solicitors!

In the meantime we have been planning away, continued our research for heating systems so we can plan this effectively as well as monitoring the costs situation.  We could not believe that so many suppliers are still holding out on prices from 07 and 08 which are to our mind just ridiculous!  

Tanya completed the landscape drawings and plan for the hedging plants to be ordered Feb/March.  Next step for the site is the planting in areas we can plant in - The north and south/west hedging :-) as well as get the builder on site to start the build YIPEEEEEE!!!!!