Yesterday CBS Saturday Morning news had a report on turning shipping containers into housing and Compact Living, another company making shipping container homes, showed up in my Instagram feed. The news story covered larger scale projects to use shipping containers as housing. The company, Sparkbox, …
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I’ve been asked for a floor plan with a progress list with links, so here it is.
Click to Open a printable floor plan with measurements Westwood Cabin Floor Plan and Front Elevation Modified Creekside Manor 3016
14′-8″ x 52′-0″
Approved for North Carolina
This is where we are at now. We have the CO (Certificate of Occupancy). That “releases the address” to have power.
They have flagged the route the underground conduit will take. They said it could be installed by day-before-yesterday. It wasn’t.
The grass is growing. We put in azalea and rhododendron down the side of the driveway.
But with a CO, Mom can start moving things in. Her home is staged and ready for the real estate photos. As soon as it’s listed, I’ll add some links to the listing here.
The next step when this was first posted was having the cabin delivered.
We were told we had to grant an easement for the water and sewer line. We own both lots, but we were told we had to grant ourselves an easement to cross our own back yard for the water and sewer. (You know somebody must have sued somebody sometime.) The plumber, Jeremy Dills, recommended a lawyer who can “draft a permanent easement” without a survey. The lawyer took forever to get around to it. Which was really frustrating, but then it ended up the city didn’t need an easement after all.
Finished foundation, ready for the cabin
We also heard from the cabin company that we had to have a crane. There was not enough room to slide the cabin off the truck.
We did have to have a crane.
That’s where we were at when I first posted this, waiting to find out about a crane and waiting for a lawyer. The cabin was delivered the next week in horrible weather and we should have waited. But how were we to know it would take months to get water?