Footings and Foundation

When the forms come off tomorrow the house will look big and green. Apparently fresh concrete initially looks green. Rob said he has never seen so many concrete trucks for pouring a foundation.

Hole

Becky and I took a drive over to our lot this evening and found a hole and some big piles of dirt.

This hole was supposed to be there a week ago, but a week ago today we were under 6 inches of snow and it had rained quite a bit before that.

The forecast is for nice weather for the next few days, so we should see some good progress in the next while.

It begins again

On August 26, 2009 we signed an agreement to purchase a lot. Today 8 months and 2 days later the lot has been staked out and the actual house building begins. Getting to this point has taken much longer than we had anticipated. This is due to the fact that it is our first time through this process as we are doing what is called a self-build. The process we have completed was the part of house building that Rob was unfamiliar with.

So we will keep this blog updated on the progress. The digging is supposed to start on Monday.