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Slab poured, foundation complete — now time for some walls!

To my delight, I drove out to the new homesite and found that the slab has been poured for the house and both porches.  When I got out to the site, the crew was busy taking down the edges of the porches and setting everything up to cure.  I am so excited that everything is [...]

Preparing for the slab

This week, everything is heading towards the goal of pouring the concrete slab for our house on Wednesday morning.  Yesterday, the crew was on site laying down plastic vapor barrier between the fill sand and where the concrete will lay.  The plumbing that we had seen over the weekend was complete and all additional plumbing [...]

Foundation, fill and plumbing

It has been a very busy week out on our property.  At the end of last week, our foundation was nearly complete and over the weekend, Harry (the builder) began putting fill into the block foundation.  On Monday, several more loads of sandy fill were loaded into the foundation and everything was brought up to [...]

Building has begun

It has been a few weeks since I have posted an update, but during that time, we have had a lot of activity on our land.  Last week, the builder laid out all the sidewall strings and began digging the footings for the house.  Those were dug and then poured in about a day.  To [...]

Building permit in progress

This week, the builder is working on permitting.  We are hoping to have a building permit within the next two weeks and hoping that work will begin shortly after that.  Jen and I have signed off on the plans, specs and construction agreement and returned those to Sterling Homes along with the first payment. We [...]

Loan closed; money released; building getting ready to start

We spent the afternoon today closing on our construction loan.  With the financing all locked down, we now have a line of credit available to us from Conway National Bank to use for the building process.  We will begin our draw process next week once everything has been booked.  The first draw will cover foundation [...]