{"id":185,"date":"2008-08-21T20:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-09-06T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T17:38:08","slug":"survey-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/08\/21\/survey-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day after <a href=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2008\/07\/30\/day-zero\/\">the deal closed<\/a>, I called a few surveyors to see who charged a reasonable fee and could come out to the property in short order.  It turns out they are all in the $3000 range, but some of them will charge you an hourly fee with a &#8220;not to exceed&#8221; number (better).  I ended up going with Brent Eble and Emerald Land Surveying, Inc. who were able to come out to the property the very next day and charged an hourly rate with a not-to-exceed number of $2900.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks later (today), I received my survey drawings and 3D CAD file with a total bill of $2695.  Not bad.  I&#8217;ve already forwarded the file onto my architects and they told me everything looks great, but unfortunately, I am not able to easily import the CAD file into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sketchup.com\" target=\"_blank\">SketchUp<\/a>. I plan on mucking around with some design ideas in SketchUp, so it&#8217;s a bit disappointing that the surface mesh the surveyor provided doesn&#8217;t seem to work very well in the only modeling app normal people like me can use. It imports, but as a series of lines instead of a true, clean surface mesh. I&#8217;ve already tried to re-convert the .dwg file from AutoCAD and ArchiCAD but since I don&#8217;t know those apps very well, I&#8217;m not making a ton of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the important part is that the survey is now done so the architects can get going on the designs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/survey.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"297\" class=\"framed\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Good old-fashioned drawings from the surveyor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after the deal closed, I called a few surveyors to see who charged a reasonable fee and could come out to the property in short order. It turns out they are all in the $3000 range, but some of them will charge you an hourly fee with a &#8220;not to exceed&#8221; number (better). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}