Dirt Work is done and we have a foundation!

Hi All,
The rumble of heavy machinery is gone, which is bittersweet, but now we're on to the next stage; build the house. Susan and I have decided to act as the general contractors (and in some cases the sub-contractors) to build our house. There are a couple of things we absolutely won't do; concrete and sheetrock. This past Saturday the forms and trenching started for the foundation.

The rough-in plumbing and forms in for the house foundation

The pad for the garage / shop

By Tuesday afternoon all we needed was concrete.

The garage is in the foreground, the house is closer to the pond

A better look at the house pad

Wednesday, today, was concrete day. We were both really nervous. Everything else can be fixed relatively easy but if this is wrong, we'll have a mess. Past the point of no return now...

By the end of the day, here's the foundation for the house.

Sure hope we got this right

Not much more to happen on the house until after the first of the year when we frame it. We are going to help professionals with the framing. At least that's our plan!

That's all for now, take care.
Brian