Electrical Meter & Conduit Placed

We had a relatively dry day yesterday so on the way home from work I stopped for some additional photos.  I saw that the electrical items were set and that our steel beams were on the ground across the street.

Lot Backfilled

Plenty of rain in the last 36 hours in this area.  I haven't been by the lot, but Kari sent some photos of the site now that the dirt is pushed back in.

The good news is that the egress window is in the right place and it looks like the two hopper windows are properly formed.

When I initially saw the dig it looked like the sanitary and water service came in at a different location than the one we had discussed at the Pre-Con, but I am not worried about these as they'll end up in what we plan to be a storage area regardless.

I did see in my other pictures that the hole for electrical sleeve under the garage was drilled.  I'm hoping they put the conduit in place before filling and will have to check next time I'm on the site.

Foundation Forms Removed

Yesterday (Day 4) brought the removal of the concrete forms.

Pan shot of the site.

Pan shot of the site.  Lots of progress in four days!

View of the front stoop.  Lots of sun this week!  It was over 90F on Friday!  

Delta MS Waterproofing Material

Garage door location.  What are those cutouts on the side walls for?

On our weekly call, our PM let us know that early next week they will be back-filling the site then awaiting the lumber delivery to start framing.

He hasn't given a time frame, but my best guess so far is that once we start framing we'll be in that phase for around 10 work days due to the size of the home (based on what I've read on other blogs).

I didn't take pictures of it, but the development is really starting to clean up!  Many of the completed houses have now received some topsoil and some have been hydroseeded.  The model got new sod and all around it received new soil and seed.

We stopped in today and gave our SR a gift for his birthday and noticed that the map on the wall is filling quickly.  He discussed that the start schedule has a couple houses on it each week through mid June, so we'll see lots of action in the community over the summer!

Footers Done & Foundation Poured - Whoa!

So, from the looks of it things are moving at a very fast pace!

Tuesday they dug the lot.

Wednesday they poured the footers.

Thursday They formed and poured the foundation walls.

I assumed I'd get there and the forms would be up today, but I definitely didn't expect the concrete to have been poured already!

I spoke with the PM yesterday and we discussed a few things.

#1 - My company was finally fully approved to do the low voltage pre-wire inside the home.

#2 - The gas line is essentially a disappointment.  The meter has to go on the side at the northwest corner 3' in from the front.  It will need to enter into the garage.  He agreed to have me out after framing starts to meet with the mechanical contractor to discuss the path of the pipe.  I have some ideas here that should make this work.

#3 - Because of our rear garage door, he did not go as deep with the foundation as initially planned. With the initial height, the base of the garage door would have been too low and grading would have lead water towards the house. The house is now being built 8" higher than originally planned.  He wanted to ensure he communicated this as he had previously told us that our driveway height/slope would be the same as the neighbors and now it will be a bit higher.  No worries from me on this!

Without further adieu, here are some pictures.  Ignore anything that looks like a ripple in the panoramic shots - they are the stitching points from my phone's camera.

Shot from Kari's house.  This was in the morning today.  Looks like they were laying down some stone.  The footers were already complete.  Concrete forms were inside the truck in the foreground.

The scene when we drove by tonight.  From the northwest corner of our house (the corner in the center of the picture is the outside corner of the garage).

Closer to the inside edge of the garage.  Ignore the edit out of people from the picture!

Near the northeast corner of the house.  The rear garage door will go on that back wall to the left and beyond that is the morning room cutout.  In the background center right of this image you can see Kari's Sienna!