Amazing House Blog

I’ve spent a little time off the blog for fear of saying nasty words that should not be typed. But, now that I am feeling a little better, I shall vent.

Well, we finally got the soil engineer out there to take a look at the last footer that we needed to pour so that he could tell us to dig it a little wider so we could finish pouring. Well, he told up that we need to move the whole house!!!! Yep, that’s what he told us! The footer, it seems, is over old fill dirt that was never compacted correctly and we would have to build an enormous retaining wall if we wanted to keep the house in the same spot. It looks like it will be cheaper to just move the whole dang thing ~25 feet to the east. So, we keep going and will hopefully pour the footer (again) this week or next. Bye-bye bank account!
On another land front, I got a call from this guy who said he is under contract to buy 130 acres east and south of us and he plans on developing it. He wanted to know if we wanted to sell!! I have to say, I thought about it for a second, and then I remembered the promise that I made to this land to try to preserve it. So, I am trying to look on the bright side. Hopefully, he will build without tearing the mountains apart, we will get a good road to our house, and we will have some nice, new neighbors.

Part of our wood framing, under a few inches of snow

Lots and LOTS of insulation!!

Setting the rebar in the footer.

Ready to pour the concrete

Surveying the progress

Here comes the concrete

Don’t walk under the concrete chute!!!

Leveling the footers

We got ~2/3 of the footers poured. The inspector said that the ground was too soft in some parts. So we have to get a soils engineer out there to inspect. (POOP!) Otherwise, things are going well!! We are all completely exhausted (from the house and the new clinic and being parents and life), but Toby has had some wonderful help on the house from good friends and seems to be having a great time building.