Saturday, February 20, 2010

More Site Prep

We have now gone nearly two full months in the middle of peak snow season without any major snow storms. The two feet or so that we had from early January has largely melted away and is at most 6 inches or so in the woods. We have taken the opportunity of the minimal snow cover to do some serious site prep. Taylor construction, the company that put in our road last summer has dug our septic field and will be finishing that as well as bringing in nearly 60 dump truck loads of fill to even out our house site. We are doing the foundation grading work now to allow it a few months to settle before we pour 200 cubic yards of concrete on it for our giant monolithic slab. Here are a few pictures from the work that has been going on, the best of which (and Lorien witnessed this) was when a dump truck got stuck trying to leave the site and the excavator just pushed him out... excavators have to be the coolest tools ever invented.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is great you guys!! The timber frame looks fantastic- I LOVE the color. good job, lorien. So how does the one wall stand up while they assemble the second one? Are there two cranes? MORE PICTURES!!!! I want to see it from all angles. can't wait for the SIPS....