The gentleman we spoke to at Clayton Homes recommends the Magnolia. It is an off frame modular. The website shows two exteriors, one with a higher peak to the roof than the other. There are dormer, shutter and shed roof awning options. It is one …
Nobody wants to live in a flood zone. Even if you never have a flood, you have to buy flood insurance. It can also make it harder to sell your house and it will probably sell for less. Every community has a Flood Insurance Rate …
A packet came from FEMA today. They want to make very sure that we have flood insurance and that we get it that insurance for the building only covers the contents if we buy insurance coverage for the contents. You might be interested, if you …
Whether you are building a tiny house, play house, workshop or shed on your land, you need to prepare the spot. The first, VERY first step is to make sure your building is not going to flood. Even before you plan the foundation, you need …
The grader has finished. The lot is above flood plain and everything angles away from the house. The grader pushed the dirt up to the edges of the new concrete. There was gravel everywhere. The grader measured for where the gravel driveway was supposed to …
In earlier posts I talked about our Engineered Footers*. Excavation Report – Engineered Footings > One part of the engineering is this well. Finally we see what they are doing. We hit a spring when we were digging for the foundation and had to have …
Late in the day the graders showed up and started moving dirt around again. There is a lot of dirt. From Dartmouth, you can’t even see there is a house being built back there. It looked like they were just rearranging the piles. But they …
Last week someone showed up and marked the block. I think this marks where the ground will come to when the house is done. The forecast was for rain and can-you-believe-it snow. We got the rain, but somebody else got the snow. It is April! …
So, the engineer has been out to the land and has issued his Excavation Report. We are going to have to put in Engineered Footings. The standard footings are included in the cost of the house. We have to pay extra for anything beyond this. …
Can you build in a flood plain? I am guessing you can, or there would be no houses in Florida. I started doing the research. How flood plain are we? It looks from the survey as if we are only at the edge of the …
