Property Challenges

Developing property is not for the faint of heart. In the last two weeks we learned that there was too much water in the ground for our contractor to pour the runners for the house. To resolve the problem, he ended up excavating another six feet down, laying down a plastic barrier and then hauling in rock to raise the lot to ground level. It took 19 truck loads of rock - 37 tons - to fix the problem. The entire process may need to be repeated for the garage. This is what the runners look like before they are filled with concrete.

When the concrete dries, the support beams are placed in the sections without the concrete. The house will be delivered tomorrow, April 2, unless the wind is too strong.

We got a kick out of the box containing the building permits. I'm not sure that anyone would actually climb back there to look at the permits, but at least the box is there.