Welcome to Our CapeHouse Adventure

Welcome to the house building adventure of Terry Legere and Linda Allen.

As we have been approaching our golden years, we decided that we did indeed want to spend our senior years on our property in Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick.  Although Terry has a large garage to serve for his hobbies of jukebox restoration, wood working and '57 Chevy restoration, the small 2 bedroom winterized cottage would not be big enough to accommodate Linda's genealogy and crafts hobbies.  So the decision was made to build a house and continue to rent out the cottage.

After several years of working on house plans, we hired a draftsman in 2023 to draw up official plans to be submitted to the NB government for a building permit.  We received them a months later, but too late in the year to start the process for a permit as ground would need to be broken within a certain period of time (ie 6 months).  So we waited until late winter/early spring.

The application for a building permit was an adventure in itself.  Had to pinpoint on an aerial digital photo just where the house would be located.  Had to have an inspection of septic viability.  Even though a entrance from the road for cottage access has existed for over a decade, had to get verification that access was possible.  Had to have a stamped documentation from the flooring/truss company (even though a confirmed order not yet placed) of their plans.  And then we need to have an engineer sign off on the structure of the wall of windows in the living room.  Money, money, money even before we could put a shovel in the ground.

In late April/early May, people from the construction company that would be doing the foundation visited the site and said they would be ready to go in a couple of weeks.  We didn't yet have the building permit in hand, but Terry had been informed it was pending.  It was received a few days later.

A couple of weeks later, no word from the construction company, so Terry contacted them.  So sorry, existing customers had additional jobs, so we got bumped further down the list. :(

Late in the day, on Monday June 10th, Terry got the phone call he had been waiting for.  They would be on site the next morning to start The Big Dig!

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