Saturday, May 24, 2014
Excavation completed
Thanks to the guys at Progressive Excavating putting in a Saturday we now have our basement dug. They dig the hole 3' bigger on each side to make accommodation for the concrete forms that will be used to form the basement walls. Our basement walls will be 10' high and 10" thick. The low side of the hole represents the walk out side of our basement where we will have a door. We are hoping to get the footers dug this Tuesday, then they will have to get inspected before they can be poured.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
We have broken ground!
Today we finally broke ground. We have been very anxious to get started, and progressive excavation came on site today and cut our driveway in and began digging. The below picture is a view from the master bathroom looking back towards the road and garage wall. This part of the house will have a crawlspace beneath it. Hopefully they will begin digging the basement tomorrow.
Our new home construction blog
After much prayer and turmoil Julie and I decided to buy a lot in a new development in Plano. The development is called Fairvue Farm. We purchased the lot about 1 month ago from Bennie Jones. The next step was to put our current house up for sale. I listed our home on Zillow and the very next day we were contacted by a young couple who wanted to come and see the house. We arranged for a showing that next Saturday. On Monday we received an offer and by Thursday we had settled on a price and had the house under contract. We will close on our current house July 21st, 2014. The Lord has been good to us.
We immediately applied for our building permit and $1003 and 5 days later we received it. We also had to have Landmark engineering out on the lot to plot the house plan and stake the lot. The next step was to have the contractor who is doing the basement (Wade Perry) come out and stake the lot showing all of the perimeter walls. This is a picture of the girls playing in their future play room!
The next step was to go to WRECC and apply for service to our new lot. The charge was $250 and this covers the cost of the line that will connect from the junction box to our house. It also covers the meter which they will use to charge me for their electricity :)
We immediately applied for our building permit and $1003 and 5 days later we received it. We also had to have Landmark engineering out on the lot to plot the house plan and stake the lot. The next step was to have the contractor who is doing the basement (Wade Perry) come out and stake the lot showing all of the perimeter walls. This is a picture of the girls playing in their future play room!
The next step was to go to WRECC and apply for service to our new lot. The charge was $250 and this covers the cost of the line that will connect from the junction box to our house. It also covers the meter which they will use to charge me for their electricity :)
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