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MyFox Colorado Nederland Conserving Water After Major Leak

Click on the link above and then look for the video on the right hand side of the page down in the middle, it says VIDEOS, then click on the video, first there is a commercial (so what's new) then they go into the story. The story includes video of Robbin in the shop, and it is her voice at the end, which is so.... funny. Check it out.

UPDATE ON WATER LEAK

Please keep updated by going to the following link

http://www.town.nederland.co.us/index.php/

The last update posted at 7:15 indicated that the leak has been fixed but that water conservation is still being requested, as it will take 3 to 4 days for the water levels to come up to fire safety standards.

This is a great website for residents of the town and probably should be kept in your favorites for future reference.

BIG NEWS-NOT GOOD FOR NEDERLAND

Unfortunately, the water system in Nederland sprung a BIG LEAK. They were losing 80,000 gallons of water a day. The town has asked everyone to please CONSERVE WATER, till they can fix the leak.

There is a possibility that the town could run out of water, but the Public Works department is working diligently to stop the leak.

Channel 31 from Denver came into Robbin's Shop, Mountain Rose Hair Care, to see how she was conserving water. They hooked her up with a mike for the interview and she demonstrated what she could do to try to help out the situation with her clients.

Hopefully it will air tonight on the 9:00 news. Will let you know more tomorrow.

For more information, check the left side of this blog for local news from various papers. One of the papers is here in Hartford, Ct., so this is BIG NEWS for a little town

More forms for pouring the foundation

Wednesday evening around 8:15, Robbin had a chance to go over to the side and take some pictures from the last several days.

It looks like Thursday or Friday will be the pouring of the foundation. All the boards are up and ready to go.

This is really getting to the exciting part, and soon it will start to look like a building. Next week I would predict that the framing of the first deck will start.

It's A Quiet Time Right Now

Mike has taken a mini vacation till Tuesday, so we are enjoying this down time. More next week.

WEDNESDAY WAS CEMENT DAY

The lilacs are blooming and the cement trucks have arrived to pour our footers.
Don't know their names but they work for our concrete company Tomas Construction. They are waiting to get to work pouring.
The cement truck is pouring concrete into the pumper to pump to the farthest part of the building.
Now the guys are getting started spreading the cement from the pumper.

More pictures tomorrow on the pour, but it looks good.

More Footer Pictures

This shows the footers on the west side of the building
Footers along the east side by the garage
Stepping of the footers from the garage to the main building
An overview of the layout. Looks like a maze, but will make more sense when they get to the walls of the foundation.

THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE HOLE-THE FOOTINGS

Robbin appeared at the site today to find the footings formed and ready to go. EJ and Adam from Arch 11 came up from Boulder to inspect and advise. This is the hardest part of construction getting the building out of the ground. Mike Smith from Lost Elk Builders is in charge and he is doing a good job. He will follow the instructions of the architect and bring something new on the earth that never existed before. It is the birth of something new for Mountain Rose Hair Care and Nederland.

NEW HOME OF MOUNTAIN ROSE HAIR CARE

Robbin designed and put up the sign for THE FUTURE HOME OF MOUNTAIN ROSE HAIR CARE. This is a great idea, as now everyone will know what is happening on 2nd St. Not just the readers of this blog.

AND NOW A DEEPER HOLE

Footing for the rear of the garage.
Len Cole finished digging the footings yesterday. This is the hole for the footing for the garage.

GOOD NEWS-THE NEW NED GAZETTE features Mountain Rose Hair Care in their on-line edition

Nikki and Robbin in front of the sign for Mountain Rose Hair Care. Note the great scissors that won Robbin the best Christmas decorations in a contest at Christmas time this year.
Robbin and Nikki inside the store posing for their picture in a wonderful article written by Marti Lajoie for The Ned Gazette. The Ned Gazette is now published solely on the internet. Please visit www.thenedgazette.com for the entire article.
One of the paintings in Robbin's shop done by her Mother, Pat Everson.

This is the present home of Mountain Rose Hair Care. You can find Robbin and Nikki working diligently here Tuesday through Saturday.

Nothing today, but it did SNOW--What did you say the date was?????

No progress today, but Robbin said that it SNOWED. Nothing stuck as the ground is warm, but it is hard to image in June.

Yes there is a hole

View of the start of the building from 2nd street
West side of the building
Looking from the alley to 2nd Street.See the following posts which show how we got here.c

A pile of dirt and boulders

As Lynn clears the lot he piles the dirt up to use later. This is a pretty big pile
Well, it is obvious where Boulder County gets it name. The soil tests we had done indicated river rock and that is what we have, but big ones. I guess we will have to find a place for these lovely boulders.
The end of the day. Hopefully tomorrow he will come back and dig the footings. It was a hard days work today.

The Project is started

Robbin arrived this morning to see machinery. Len Cole is our excavator. He comes from the south, Rollinsville.
Mike checks with Len to work out the particlars to start the digging and clearing of the property
Here is Len working on his machine. He is very much at home . The hole is started.

What is this Rock????

This is a strange rock that is on the property. The builder Mike thinks it might be from a mine or something. It definately have man made marks on it. Perhaps tomorrow we will find out how big it is and what is under it. Lets hope there are not too many rocks, but it is the rocky mountains.

Here we are again, waiting to start. This is the hardest part of the job, getting everything together and bringing it out of the ground. The surveyor set the corner stakes and the set back stakes. The carpenter will now set his boards so he can measure back to put the stakes back after the excavator has dug up everything. Mike is out there as a post weed wacking the grass and setting up his marker.

EJ and Mike will be meeting at 8:30 with the excavator so go over things.

YEAH!!! THE SURVEYORS CAME

The surveyor set his transit up in the street to start placing the building on the lot. They will set the corners and the sides of the building as we are very close to our set back lines and want to be sure that we do not go over.
These stakes show the side of the building to the east, Dr Fixit's property is to the left. Note how wonderfully green the grasses are.
This is a wider view showing the stakes on the right for the west side of the building and the back.
Our trusted surveyors, Chris and Bart. Note that the date today is June 6, 2008, but they still are bundled up in their hats and vests. They were there early this morning and I think that it warmed up later in the day. The day was very bright and windy. In the other pictures, you can almost see the grasses waving in the wind. Always the west wind in the mountains

Possible start tomorrow

No picture today, but keep your fingers crossed we have finally had a
commitment from the surveyor that he will be there first thing in the
morning. The excavator is also scheduled for the afternoon. So we may have a go....

It has been a rough start to date, with many paper hold ups. I still have to get a finalized contract to the builder.

Time to also order the windows, but would love to see something coming out of the ground before I make that commitment. Hope it does not rain.

Reviewing the plans

Mike goes over the plans on the site at the ground breaking on Monday. Last night we had a conference call and reviewed the plans in detail for three hours. My ear just about fell off. But we successfully worked out many details.
Mike reviews the plans with some of his employees
Everyone gets a peek at the plans that are hot off the press. This is the first time that many have seen them, as Adam, E.J and I have been working for all these years (yes it has been years) to perfect them, so that hopefully there will not be many changes as we go along. The Town Manager, Jim Stevens, is looking at the 3D images that we have on this blog. Mike told me last night that he really liked the looks of the building and feels that it will be good for Nederland.

The building will blend with it surrounding environment. One of the principals that I have used in the new building and remodeling that I have done in the past, is to try to fit the project into the neighborhood. In this case, a lot of what I really like in a home or business, I was not able to use.

Nederland has it own unique personality. Having arisen out of the needs of a mining community, a lot of the things that decorated homes in Boulder or Denver and even Gilpin County are not present in Nederland.

The buildings are more utilitarian and functional, I guess the new word is organic. In actuality, the people did not have the money or the ability to transport superficial decorations up into the mountains, they had to concentrate their energy and money for more useful things. Therefore,
Nederland grew from roots of functionality.

After a fire many years ago, the town had to be rebuilt. At that time they had a change to upgrade somewhat. One can now see influences around town of a more decorative style of architecture.

Arch 11, and I have striven to incorporate many of these influences into this building. We sincerely hope that we have succeeded and from all the comments that I have heard we certainly are headed in the right direction.

Kathy and the Sage Ceremony

Kathy, our neighbor and fellow artist, holds the sage that she will be burning for good luck and blessing. Robbin finished her hair and she looks great.
Kathy holding the burning sage and going through the ceremony of North, South, East and West.
More ceremony with the mayor and Jim Stevens looking on.

Ground Breaking Activities On June 2nd

The group gathers for the ground breaking and other activities on Monday, June 2nd at 11:00. Robbin is the second from the left. The dog, Bo, belongs to the builder,Mike Smith who is holding the plans in the second row. Beside Mike is his son, Chris, he is the really tall guy in the back row. On the left of Mike, is Pat, who works for Mike. There are three representatives from Arch11, Inc in the front row.
Looking at what is happening is our neighbor Chris otherwise known as DR FIXIT. He and his son are on the left . In front of the truck is Pat, Chris and David who work with the builder, Mike Smith.
Going over what is to happen next is Marci, From the Laundromat, our new neighbor from across the street on the corner, Kathy from down the street and Robbin.