House Construction Part 2 - Footers and footer forms are dug and placed

They have dug and placed re bar for pouring the footers around the perimeter of the house. I have pictures that I will post as soon as possible.

Just an update on the basement layout. There will be an entry door in the center of the front of the basement. There will be a window on each side of the door on the front of the basement. Then on the right side if you are looking at the front of the house there will be a 9 foot framed out area that will have two 4 foot doors that swing open for an 8 foot opening. The purpose for this area being framed out like this is to have the potential to put a 9 foot garage door in place of the double doors to have a garage in the basement.

The footers should be poured today after the footer inspection is complete. I will continue to post updates as progress continues.

Dug out footprint for house



Another vantage point of dug out footprint



Right side of house footers, this is where two four foot double doors will be in basement



Left front corner of house footer frames with rebar

House Construction Part 1 - Land and summary of things to come

Pics of general floor plan and layout

Potential top floor layout, merely a company template though

Layout of main floor, which will be minus optional kitchen layout

Company picture of exterior of house, ours will be without the attached garage

Ground has been broken in what is the beginning of the the construction of our new house. The land is 0.60 acres in what is essentially an open field with a gentle downward slope from the back of the land to the front, which meets a main state road. The digging began yesterday and they pretty much finished digging in preparation for the laying of the foundation. Stay tuned I plan on posting some pics as progress continues.

For those wondering what the layout of this house will be I will give a bit of a summary of the setup. The foundation will be a full unfinished basement. The main level of the house and the only finished part for now will be 1320 square feet. It will be two bedroom and two full bathrooms with the potential of at least two more bedrooms added to the top level. It will also have the potential for another bathroom added to the top level as well as one to the basement. The living room will be about 13 x 21 and the kitchen/dining room combo will be roughly the same with potentially a foot or two shorter length. The front of the house will have a full 8 x 48 foot covered porch. A general layout of the house can be found here: http://www.cbsmods.com/plans/display/84 . The top level of this cape cod style house will be 880 unfinished square feet plumbed for a potential bathroom. The top will also have three equal sized dormers.

We are very excited for the start of this endeavor and I will continue to post updates along with media.

Pics of undisturbed land:

Front view of land from state road

Looking from front left corner across majority of property

Looking from front right corner towards back of property



Back right corner looking to front of property, main state road is visible