The footings and crawl space walls.

As the project continues, thought you might want to see what is being built.

 

This is the front and north elevations.

The walkout has a garage, recreation room with wet bar, bedroom with bath, laundry. 

The main floor has the master bedroom and bath, office, 2nd bath,

open concept living, dining, and kitchen. 

 

 This is the rear and south elevation.

 

When we got back from Pentwater Homecoming, the footings were in.

Footings looking toward the south.

Footings looking toward the north.

Footings looking southeast. 

Footings looking northeast.

Footings looking west.

Our corner of the garage.  This is where John has been studying the plans

and making sure everything is correct.  The shelves hold the cedar shiplap

that was salvaged from the old cottage and will be used

on the feature wall in the living room.

Getting the forming up for the concrete walls looking southwest.

Forming looking east.

 

 

 

 



The Excavation - big hole!

John was able to move all the root filled dirt to the front for removal. 

This shows what a nice big backyard we will have. 

About 10 tents if a bunch wanted to come visit!

While getting clean fill piled up for backfill, John came across the "remains"

of an old outhouse. A one hole. 

And a little further back a two hole.

Also found an old septic tank - empty.

Bobcat was able to move with no problem.

While the scaffolding was up for the garage, I took a picture from what

would be a similar view from our bedroom.

Tommy the excavator and Paul the truck driver

moved all the root filled dirt to John's airstrip. 

View from the road as the pile goes down. 

Digger starting to get to the correct depth. 

Digger working more in front of the garage area. 

Digging continues. 

And continues. John walking carefully next to the hole.

Depth readings were taken as we got close to the bottom. 

 

Digger in the sunshine.

22 truck loads day one and 23 truck loads day two. 

Each load was approximately 20 - 23 yards of sand.

Towards the end of day three.  John doing the measurements

while digger and bobcat stockpile fill. 

The final hole looking southwest.  

The final hole looking northwest.

 

From Joy's deck.  You can see the two huge

piles of sand on front and back of the hole. 

Surveyors placing the corner pins for the house.