Thursday, August 23, 2012

Our Big New Dirt Pile

They've dug our hole!!!.... While there's not much to see, we are clearly moving forward! they've put in the general location of the driveway and have dug a hole that kind of resembles the shape of our house. We are stunned by the size of the dirt pile.... where are they going to put all this dirt once the house is up??? We snapped a few pics today on the way home from work.... We're hoping they start on the footings before the weekend :)










Its hard to actually see the size of the hole, but its basically about 3 feet deep in the back at the morning room and about 7 or 8 feet deep at the front.  So we're guessing the back of the house will be elevated off the ground about 4 feet or so which is what we wanted.  In the second picture you can see the beginnings of some plumbing.  Its not entirely obvious from the pics but because the hill leading up to the house is so steep they dug the driveway down about two feet at the top to make a more level driveway.  This will lower our garage about a foot or two and we're a little worried about how this will effect the overall look of the house. We asked if a retaining wall would be necessary, they said a retaining wall wouldn't be necessary and that the land should grade nicely... a couple steps might be necessary however to get up to the the front door or around to the other side of the garage.  I guess that's all hard to see right now with just a big dirt pile...so we'll see.


7 comments:

  1. We our closing on September the 4th and get our keys on the 5th. Just want you to know that not too long ago we were excited about when they were getting ready to pour the footers and that time has really flown by. Before you knw it you'll be talking about closing! :-)

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  2. Wow! Congratulations on getting our hole! Yay! The big pile of dirt will be thrown in the hole where the garage is located before they seal it with cement etc.

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  3. Yay for things moving forward! I can't wait until we are at this stage too!

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  4. Yes they use the dirt, backfill the area and use for garage etc. They even brought in more dirt for us to build up our lot...the pitcher mound affect. Congrats :)

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  5. Ahhh A big thanks to everyone!!!!! We are sooo excited.. we have heard and seen by our blog family that thing smove right along from here !!!!!!

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  6. Yippee, so nice to finally see progress..i cant wait to see some progress..... we are still at a stand still waiting for our pre construction meeting, the days go so slow ...

    Looking forward to watching your progress :)

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  7. Congrats! I feel like we just broke ground but we have been in our house for three weeks now!

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