Laying/Pouring the Footing

Laying the Footing

The far section of the below picture is the outline of the kitchen/dining room with the living room to the far left.

The part with the dirt mound in the center is the garage and then looking on to the rest of the main floor.

Pouring the Concrete.

Digging the Foundation

Jacob and Brian measured out the border of the house and sprayed with orange paint. It was exciting to see where the house will be and its shape. Then they had to move a bunch of dirt around to try to make the ground level.

Corner of garage

Back corner of house and breakfast nook.

Moving Dirt

Compacting the dirt

Digging the footing of the house. Jacob used a laser level to get the ground exactly the same depth, but had to hand dig most of the outside border of the house where the footing will go...very tedious work.

Timber

Down went some trees. Unfortunately we had to cut down 6 trees along the perimeter of where the new house is going. This was a very exciting event to watch. The tree cutter did a terrific job and managed not to touch an ear of corn in Dave's garden (although the wind created as the trees fell did make a few stalks lean over a bit). Jacob and Dave trimmed the branches and we saved a lot of the branch pieces for firewood. The logs got picked up by a log truck and taken to Mankee Lumber.