The day of ground-breaking is fast approaching!
After a massive flurry of calls between myself, our builder Dennis, and our lender over the course of this week we appear to have arrived at a (hopefully) firm date for breaking ground on our new home.
If things stay as planned (and it sounds like now, after all the phone calls this week, it should) Dennis will be breaking ground on Tuesday, April 17th. The hole would be dug that day and the 18th, with the concrete trucks showing up to pour the footings that Thursday and Friday.
As you can see from the pic below, the trees are all cleared (thanks for all your help with that over the winter Dad!!), the wood piles are gone, the logs have been sold off, and the brush piles have been turned into large piles of wood chips.
The guys in the survey department where I work came out and staked the 4 corners of the house Thursday of this week, and I have a meeting early Monday morning at the site with Dennis and Joe (Joe will be the day to day on-site guy.. he'll be completing the staking of the house this week, shooting in every corner and wall of the foundation) to go over a couple things.
Robin and I have a Monday evening meeting with the siding, roofing, and lumber supplier where we'll go over our options and bring home samples of roofing and siding so we can make our selections on both.
We have more meetings to set up for the coming weeks, the next big one after this will be the meeting with the window supplier.
While all this is going on, Robin is searching for a place for us to rent from May through August. It's turning out to be a tough search as decent rentals don't seem to be easy to find.
Below are some more pics of our cleared out lot....
Below are some more pics of our cleared out lot....
