First Week on the Site

We had our first week of site work this past week. We had to work hard to lay out the four corners of the house in order to begin to work towards setting the foundation. Our first step was to clear the back part of the site. We had to clear about 20 feet of brush and trees from the back part of the site.







Our next step was laying the initial four corners of the house. Thanks to Sam's dad we were able to lay these out in a single day and accurately.We got a unique opportunity to learn a little about surveying and have a little fun in the process.








After laying these out we began to look at the floor heights for the subfloor of the house which by code has to be 18" off the dirt. We found out that if we did that we would be looking at about a 4.5 - 5 foot gap at the low end of the site between the dirt and the sub floor. We had a dozier come out to level the site. With the site leveled we will be able to lay out the four corners again and begin to set up for the footings.