Site Work

We spent the entire weekend doing site work for our house. Friday afternoon, Adam had two pieces of equipment delivered to our lot - a mini excavator and track skid. He scraped off the grass and topsoil from the house foot print with track skid, so we wouldn't be building on organics.


Then, he had four loads of dirt delivered. One of these loads was rather wet, which caused some issues later on.


Adam then began to spread out the dirt from the piles to raise up and even out the elevation.





Clint (Adam's brother) picked his seat - the mini excavator. He sat up in there for just about the entire weekend. He'd come down when we asked him to do something, but he would always return back to his seat.


We worked until just after dark - around 8:00 pm. Adam and I work up early Saturday morning, made a quick trip to Lowe's and started back to work by 8:30 am. Adam continued to move the dirt evenly across the house footprint.


We had a couple visitors - The Weinstein's stopped by to see the progress. Here, Daryl and Logan take a spin on the track skid.


We spent Saturday leveling the dirt, borrowing dirt, measuring the elevation with the laser level, and compacting the dirt. Our neighbors two doors down had some dirt in their side yard that they wanted us to take - we did so, gladly. This, however, was a messy process. We had to drive across the road to get the dirt and left a nice trail of dirt about two inches deep for one hundred feet. So, we spent awhile Sunday sweeping up our mess.


Actually, this wasn't quite enough dirt and we plan on getting another truck load today. We also started digging some footings and will use that dirt as well. Here is Adam digging with the mini excavator and then dumping the dirt in the track skid.



We spend just about every bit of daylight working. We are tired, sore, and sunburned. But, we made a lot of progress. The elevation is just about complete. We have compacted most of the soil down and have begun digging the footings. We will continue to work quickly - as we are paying by the day for our rented equipment. We hope to start putting in the underground plumbing soon as well. We have not heard about our permit yet, hopefully it will be soon.