Speed bumps... It is never a smooth ride !

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So far most of the things have been smooth and without any problems. But as we approach the day for the final inspection of the house, thinking everything is going well and smooth as planned, the road to the end gets a little bumpy.

It was just this week that the Kommun (municipality) of Karlskrona sent us a letter telling us that the wall around the house was too high on the corner of the street. When we started building the house, we were happy that we could get a corner plot. But little did we know that having a corner plot comes with some limitations. As it turns out, building a wall around the house with a plot at the corner of the street has limitations on the height of the wall. This is a regulatory requirement. The reason for it is the visibility is affected for the vehicles when driving around the corner if the wall is too high.
When the building permission was approved the allowed height of the wall was 80cm from the street level. But when the wall building started, we realized that the street itself was slanting on both sides of the wall and the corner of the street was too low. So when the wall was eventually completed, the sides of the wall were less than 80cm high, where as the corner was more than 80cm high.
How high? approximately 2 bricks high on the corner.


Now we have to fix the height of the wall on the corner, but we do not have much time to do it. When Karlskrona Kommun sent the letter in beginning of October, about the height of the wall, they sent it initially to our old apartment address. By the time the letter returned back to Karlskrona Kommun due to wrong address, and by the time Karlskrona Kommun figured out our actual address and sent us the letter again, 2 weeks had passed. But this did not change the deadline to fix the height of the wall. The deadline is 31st of October, i.e. end of this month.

When I realized that we had just a week left to fix the problem with the wall in order to avoid any penalties from Kommun, I started panicking. I called all the contacts at Myresjöhus and the sub-contractors to get help. The sub-contractor responsible for building the wall then assured me that he will get the wall fixed before 31st of October. Now I just hope everything is sorted out within time to avoid penalties, even if it means that we will have to tear down the good looking wall that is currently standing there. I am just hoping that the wall will still look nice after the height of the wall is lowered at the corner.

But this is just one of the bumps. Recently the guys put the balcony in place with the nice looking aluminium and glass frames. They then proceeded to install the drain pipes for the balcony, which is when we realized the mistake that another sub-contractor had made. The drainage pipe on the ground to which the drain-pipe from the balcony would connect, was placed on the wrong side. Which means there was a mis-match. The person who did the ground work placed the drainage pipe in the wrong spot. Now that is a silly mistake. However, the sub-contractor said that it was not a big issue and he can just dig the ground a bit and move the pipe in the right place.


Additionally another drain pipe on the other side of the house was placed very close to the surface of the ground. And it is causing problem to place the slabs for the steps.

But the sub-contractor assured that he will fix both these issues before the inspection.

I was really hoping that all these issues are sorted as soon as possible, but I don't have high hopes for that because it is raining a lot outside. And I do not expect the guys to do any digging or wall-fixing work out in the rain. But hopefully these issues should be taken care of before the deadline. Now we just wait and watch.