Construction Week 4

We made some pretty good progress this week and we are finally almost ready to pour our slab! Woo hoo!

On Monday, after the pier engineer passed the piers, our excavator came back and leveled the pad since for forms truck messed it all up with all the dirt they dug up.

The pier truck also came for the workshop and dug all the piers for that!

Then on Wednesday the trenchers showed up to trench the beams for the foundation.

The plumbers started on Wednesday and finished up on Thursday. The inspector came today (a private inspector we hired since we don’t have city inspections) and the plumbing passed inspection. yay!

Hopefully next week the foundation company will come back and fix all the forms, dig out the trenches, and put the moisture barrier up. Then we will have a soil moisture test and one more inspection by the foundation engineer before they pour. Exciting!

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Construction Week 3

Well, it was a very frustrating week with set backs. We were supposed to get our piers done on Tuesday but the pier truck  got there and broke down after 8 piers =( We were so bummed but it happens. So they weren’t available to get the piers done and have the concrete lined up again until Friday. We finally got all 66 piers dug and poured on Friday! It was crazy watching all these concrete trucks do their thing! It was such a relief to finally get it done! Even though, we probably would already have a slab if we didn’t do these extra piers, I am so glad we will have a nice strong foundation that hopefully will never have to get fixed. We had to fix our foundation in The Colony twice in 7 years so doing this now was a no brainer! Now, we can move on to plumbing!

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Construction Week 2

Not much happened this week as far as construction. Apparently, concrete is in high demand right now so there was quite a wait for the piers trucks and concrete trucks. The only thing we got done this week was the Form Survey which is basically just a new survey of our land to show that the forms were on our property and not encroaching on any property lines. We were all good there! We did go this week and pick out our brick and stone. We choose Old Hickory for the stone and Commercial Antique for the brick. I hope it ends up looking great! It is so nerve-wracking picking things!

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Construction Week 1

We have made a lot of progress in just the first week! First, we got the excavator out there to level an area for the workshop and the house. Then we had him bring rock in for a temporary driveway and parking area in case it rains. Next we met with the workshop guy to get that all squared away and pick out our colors and options. He should be able to start building it in two weeks which Shannon is VERY excited about! We also got a port-a-potty delivered. Sorry I don’t have a picture of that but you can use your imagination =P.  Lastly, we got in touch with the foundation company and got on their schedule. They already came out today to get started on placing all the forms. So exciting to see it coming together! I think we did a lot for just the first 4 days!

The boys loved watching the bulldozer and dump trucks.

Next week we will have the piers put in for the foundation (we have a ton of those), rough in the plumbing and floor electrical and get a form survey. After that, we will be ready to pour the slab!

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Construction Loan Closing

We closed on our construction loan! It was a long process of planning and tons of work but we finally closed! Woo hoo! Time to start building. We are super excited to get started. I will try to keep updating the blog through the process!

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