It's official, we started building our house! I don't think I've ever been so excited to see a hole in my life. We hired a worker to dig our walkout basement with a track hoe, if you could've seen this guy work you would've been impressed. Not that digging a basement is impressive but the fact that this man could use such a large machine and use it to dig a very precise level hole was very neat. I'm sure hubs would be rolling his eyes right now if he knew how I was describing the excavation process.
Here hubs and I are standing in front of the basement while the track hoe digs. We look tiny. When hubs had staked it out I thought it looked small; no wonder he shot me an if looks could kill look. Hehe.
We also hired the local grid road maintenance workers to build up the road and most of the lane into our yardsite with a Yuke tractor and thank goodness we did because we misjudged how much dirt there was to move in order to have the correct slope from our walkout and away from the house and ended up hiring the Yuke worker to excavate our walkout and landscape around the yard.
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It is so much fun to watch the excavation work! You are finally on your way! I do wish we had put a basement on our house, it would have been great to have the extra room!
That is a big hole! Can't wait to read more, I love to see home building processes.
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Thanks for stopping by my blog and for following! I'm following you back! Can't wait to follow the progress of your new house! Have a great week!
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Following you from follow me back Tuesday, I would love a follow back.
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Barbara
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Thanks for the follows. It is a big hole and yes it will be niceto have the extra room, especially with the 4 kids...the basement is really for them, kind of a games area, craft room, theatre room and hang out area. We hope they spend more time at home with their friends because they will have the space to entertain in privacy; my son is going to be 12 in December so anything to help him and his friends keep out of trouble.
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