WOW,Sounds like what i am going thru now.
We have a cottage like yours in laconia,got a builder name from a friend .
He came out and we met and told him what we wanted to do.
He said he could do.
next we got his architect to draw up some simply plans, we are 60 feet from water, so we first needed to get survey, go to town apply and get PBN from shoreline enforcement, all set, took a while
Can't change footprint, house built 1900, no problem.
My builder gets ready to pull partial demo permit, Question asked by Laconia , do you know if you have asbestos , don't know, ok got to hire some one to do survey, came out, took 37 samples, at $35.00 each, plus 300 fee.
$1500 later, last week, found 9 areas. now they ( the asbestos co, who happens to be the same guy who did the survey) wants$9200.00 remove.
we started this project last fall and are almost there to start,
I have gerat confidence in the guy we hired, but start early. Get all your ducks in a row before you start,
I will keep you posted.
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