New Home Construction

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I need to do something like that at a cabin we have. I never know how much snow is in the driveway and thus not sure when to call for the snow plow. We rent quite a bit and I rely on the renters to either tell me or I attempt to call neighbors around our place how bad the snow is. There are times when I could really use a camera. Let me know if you figure it out. We only have dial up at our cabin.

I am about to start building my place. Next week we should have the engineered plans ready. I did the site prep myself moving several hundred yards. I will also be building most of it myself. Best wishes on your project. Whats your sq footage?

 

[bmac]

OK. Highbeam asked for a photo of the raw land before the clearing began. Sorry, don't have one. However, here is what the entire 12 acres looked like before work began. This is a photo of the area just behind the silt fence at the rear of the home site.

 

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This shows the opening to the building site from the driveway. The front of the house will be just behind the smoldering pile of brush / roots.

 

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This is about where the excavation will occur, looking from right to left.

 

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Here is the brush pile that resulted from the clearing. It actually grew a little after this photo was taken as the clearing was not 100% complete at this time.

 

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The brush pile a couple of days later. Sorry, I had no one to stand in for the photo for reference. Didn't think about using my truck as a reference in this photo.

 

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On to excavation. I am standing on what will be the front porch looking toward the rear of the site. Most of what you see is the basement floor and the area where we plan to build a pool. Boy, its hard for me to share the perspective with these pictures.

 

[bmac]

From the last picture, I've stepped back a few feet and turned to the left to try to get an image of our hole. As you can see in the background, we're starting to accumulate some dirt piles.

 

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From the rear of the building site. I wised up a little and drove my truck into the hole to provide some dimensional perspective. My "barn" (basement area under the garage) will be on the left side of the excavated area from this view.

 

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Standing in the same position, just panned to the left. I couldn't get far enough away to get the full width of the hole in one photo.