February 22, 2005
Good Weather for Building (Day 43)

Concrete evidence.As you can see in this photo, the driveway for our house-in-progress has been poured. In fact, it was poured yesterday, even though yesterday was a scheduled non-work day.

Weather has been an interesting non-factor throughout construction. Because we had to sell our current, er, our first house (we are still living in it, insofar as we are renting it back from the new owners, but it's not ours any longer) before we would be able to close on the new house, we opted to ask the builder to delay building until we got the situation with the first house squared away.

The one major concern we had about delaying was that we would be asking for construction to take place during the three nastiest months of the year in our part of the world, weather-wise. The heart of winter is the heart of the rainy season in the Northwest. This can interfere with roofing and painting, etc., etc.

I realize that ain't nothin' compared to building in February in, say, the Boston area (our former residence) or Buffalo, and I don't even know if builders *would* construct a house in those areas at this time of year. But home construction continues apace in the Seattle area during the winter months, rain and occasional snow notwithstanding.

But aside from a couple of weeks where it was overcast and generally drizzly for maybe five days out of seven, the weather has been remarkably favorable throughout the construction process. I'm told that it's brutally cold in Boston and Buffalo. It's raining (raining!) in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Torrential downpours have led to murderous mudslides in Anaheim Hills, CA. But here in the Seattle area, it's sixty degrees (F) and sunny.

Of course, we're going to pay for this weather, later. If it doesn't rain during the rainy season, that doesn't bode well for our water supply in the summer. In weather, as in economics, all news is bad news.

But not so in construction. In homebuilding, sixty degrees and sunny is good news. If this weather holds for just a little bit longer, they might even finish painting our house-in-progress before we move in.

Yee-ha.

Posted by on February 22, 2005 06:10 PM in the following Department(s): Building a House

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