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 …
The guys were out there first thing Wednesday to finish installing the pump to mitigate any potential water issues with our engineered footers. They put in the 20” PVC pipe yesterday. Today they assembled the pump and the PVC pipe to it and dropped it …
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 …
Most houses I have lived in the gutter downspout ended in a concrete pan that directed the water away from the house. Our new house will move the rainwater away from the house through buried drain pipe. This is how they put in the downspout …
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 …
