Woo Hoo We are Digging It!

OK yes that title is corny, but a little corny every day keeps the smiles :)
Well, we did not start on 10/14 as anticipated.  The work started on 10/24.  The foundation has been dug and the next step (which was to occur on 10/28) is to add the footers (have to have that reinforcement to keep the house standing!)

The photo isn't great because of the sun glare, but you get the idea.. it's a hole.  When I saw it I kept saying it's small, why is it so small?  Forgetting that it's the foundation and not really the footprint of the house. 

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UPDATE:
Much work has occurred during the week of 10/28/13.  We now have foundation walls.  The walls being up makes the footprint look much bigger than it did when it was just a hole.  Within these walls are the storage space, the Furnace/Water Heater storage space, the powder room, the exercise room and the finished basement space (man cave).

Egress Window in the basement

 

Foundation Walls

 

 

Peeking in the egress window at part of the basement

 

 

Next week will be a busy week.  On schedule are:
Removing of the forms for the foundation, do waterproofing, install the water and sewer lines, install powder room plumbing.  Weather permitting, the concrete for the garage and driveway will be poured... then the week after starts the framing. 

 

It's getting exciting!



And the Countdown Begins

We had our pre construction meeting on 9/30/2013.  During the meeting we met the project manager and reviewed all of our selections adding any clarifications as needed.  We also reviewed the blueprints.  Funny to see the house drawn up in such small scale.  Overall with the morning room and the finished portion of the basement we will have approx. 3,700 sq. feet.  See we didn't need that bonus room after all!

We also went to the lot to walk it and learn about the grading.  I suppose I must confess.  Rob walked the lot, I went about half way... the grass and wildflowers were up to my knees and all I kept thinking was that if any of natures creatures jump, slither or land on me I'm going to fall out right on the spot! So... It was best that I refrained from moving in any further.

Our neighbors house is almost done and he doesn't have any windows on the side of his house so that's a nice perk.  The neighbor on the other side is about 2 weeks behind us in schedule so for the most part once we move in we won't have to deal with too much construction.

Since we are getting our build now, the season impacts timing of many things.  If it is cold then our driveway will be gravel until it is warm enough for the builder to come back and do asphalt.  Same with exterior painting.  Landscaping wouldn't occur until the spring.  So when we do move in (sometime in January or February) there will still be exterior work required in the Spring.

Current start date of our build = 10/14/2013

Once we have our stakes in the ground and the building begins the blog will be updated with photos.