Good luck! We started our project the same day, Monday the 16th! Also fairly large, addition of a bedroom and guest room and redoing the kitchen, bathrooms, and family room. Looking forward to seeing your progress! When do you expect to be done?

We have a set back already! Deck was demo'd and excavation was almost complete when they found some contaminated soil in our backyard!! I still can't believe it. The former owners had an oil tank removed in 1989, however, the company that removed it left the oil soaked soil instead of taking it away. They did get a permit, but we have learned from our local building department that the site was never inspected after the tank was removed, which is just dumbfounding to me. The project is on hold until we can get the remediation done, which entails having soil samples analyzed and the soil carted away. We think this may delay the project by about a week to 10 days. We have a claim in to our insurance company, even though there is a pollution exclusuin in our policy, that usually pertains to having a tank removed. In our case, we didn't remove the tank, but we do have contamination, so its sort of a grey area.

Anyhoo, we are supposed to be done around Thanksgiving, but this should move the completion in to Dec.

Snowy, good luck to you too! How is you project going and when will you be done?

Oh, no, sorry Donna! I hope your insurance company is good to you, and that you are only set back a week or so.

We are moving along so far - they've just about finished excavating for the new areas and have demo'ed the existing kitchen and family room. I'm just waiting for the roadblocks to show up.

We have a completion guarantee of Dec 31 from the contractor, but they are hoping to finish in November (they don't want to push it close to their guarantee date). We would love to be in by Thanksgiving, but I'm trying not to stress too much about it.

Oh, Donna, that stinks! I thought that's what title insurance was for....can you get a hold of your real estate papers and see if you had title insurance? I thought it was required. In any case I hope you are up and at it soon!

Neesie, we do have title insurance, it is required for a mortgage, I am just not sure how that would help us. I'm kind of clueless about those things. Can you clarify?

I am not a lawyer, but I thought title insurance helps you only if there's some other claim to ownership of the land - ie the title to it. But I don't think it helps if the land was sold without disclosing everything about it, which is the case here. I could be wrong, of course, it'd be great if it would help out!