The demo people came on Wednesday and removed most of the rock from the house site and took it up to the rock pile up the hill, but their bobcat broke down again and they had to stop. They came back today and finished the job. This was necessary because the surveyor is coming on […]
Tomorrow morning, Ted is meeting the contractor at the County to pull the house and garage permits. We were not allowed to pull them until after the grading was approved. Two weeks ago when the house permit had finally passed all its hurdles, we discovered that the Fire Authority had requested an additional line on […]
It rained quite a bit over the weekend while I was in NC at my Father’s 95th birthday party. The grading inspector came on Monday and approved the house and garage grading. Ted and the contractor are now allowed to go pull the building permits for the house and garage, but it is going to […]
I have not kept up-to-date this last week due to too many other things to do, and how many pictures of dirt fields do you want to look at? Last week they finished digging out, removing rocks, and compacting down the house foundation area. Around all the edges, were the rocks they hauled out. Here […]
At lunchtime, the pit was considerable deeper than the picture below shows. I didn’t take a picture, and by evening, it had been filled in and compacted under the watchful eye of the soils technician.Meanwhile, Pete was busy building a wall out of concrete pieces that will support an additional gabion in the western gully. […]
I went up to the house about 1PM and there was a large hole in the area where the house will be. The dirt has to be dug out to 3 feet deep with all wood and rocks bigger than 6 inches removed, and then the dirt has to be put back and compacted. The area […]
Well, the second version of the Pre-check meeting on Thursday went off without a hitch. The inspector lectured us for half an hour, gave us a long typed message about grading rules, and left. Since it was going to rain on Friday, any digging work was delayed until Monday.