Excavating

Hey there!

Progress is coming along on our “house”!

We had a teeny tiny minor setback but we are back at it. Daniel’s friend was up the lot over the weekend scooping the big rocks out of the ground. Unfortunately, he hit the stakes that were set on the corners of our house from our engineer, so we had to have them come back on site to reinstall them. Luckily, that same day our excavator got to work!

I was on site today to check out the progress. I got some great aerial shots of the .88 acres of land that was cleared for our house. Because of the walkout basement we had designed on our blueprints, we thankfully only have to dig 6 feet towards the front of the house and 2 feet towards the back. This was crucial for us considering Westrock Hill Township is full of boulders; everywhere. From the looks of it today I think we will be safe to say it doesn’t look like we need to blast through any granite.

Here are a couple before and after pictures of whats happened within the past couple weeks. 🙂

November 25, 2017

December 6, 2017

Here’s a short clip of them digging!!

They officially formed the foundation today and tomorrow they are pouring the footer’s! By next week they are hoping to have the walls formed to continue this amazing journey!!

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Here is a photo of the first moments of concrete hitting the ground. Daniel was up there to meet the inspector and check out the site. He sent me this photo today. (12.07.2017)

Daniel also met with our builder today and ordered the lumber. That is expected to arrive in about a week and a half. At the rate that we are moving, we might potentially have a full framed house by New Years!