It’s been a long road to get to this point, but we’re finally ready to start framing the house. Grapes and his crew brought in another 69 loads of dirt to complete the backfill around the house and inside the foundation walls for the basement and garage slabs. With the backfill in place, Copperhead Plumbing…
Category: Foundation
The house is taking shape
The foundation of our new home is finally complete. It took a long time to get to this point, but seeing the shape of the house rise out of the ground has been really exciting. Toma Construction had their work cut out for them as they installed all the wall forms and reinforcing rebar without…
It all starts with a solid foundation
It has been an exciting couple of weeks as we finally received our approved building permit from the county, received power to the lot from the electric company, and poured the foundation footers. The footers proved to be the most interesting of the three big milestones to see take shape. Since we are on a…
We’re diggin’ the foundation
Bob Grapes made short work of the foundation excavation. It took him less than a week to dig out the footprint for all the footers and piers. Luckily he only ran into a little resistance from one of the large rocks on our land, which he took care of with his industrial sized rock hammer….