Site Clearing

Finally some "real" progress.  Site clearing has begun...

Site Planning

A lot has been happening the past month, unfortunately most is nothing to look at :)  This includes getting the construction loan, bids and doing a lot of site planning.  We are inching toward finally breaking ground and in preparation planning where to clear the lot.  The house corners have been staked and I finished flagging off the locations today for the house, well, septic and driveway.  It will be something similar to this:

And for fun, here are the staked house corners:

And a shot of the walk way from the house site to the septic field marked off:

Site Survey

Although still initial, this outlines how things will lay out on the property including house, well and septic location.  Also highlights some of the bigger trees on the heavily wooded property.

The Lot

Went to check out the lot today.  When we original purchased it 5 years ago, I went ahead and had a survey done, as well as well and septic locations flagged.  Needed to be sure they still were.

While I was there, I took a couple of pictures of the creek in the back...

And there is a lot of construction outside of our neighborhood.  I personally think it's great since there wasn't much there before hand.  Wife isn't too happy with a Wal-mart coming in, but I certainly am :)  It's not really that close to us, we are nestled back in a few neighborhoods which is all deeply wooded, but the Wal-mart is coming on the major highway that leads away from our neighborhood.

Licensed!

Banks have really tightened up requirements for owner-builders.  Basically, unless you are a GC you can forget it.  And you need to own your property now outright.  Well, as of a few days ago, both have been checked off the list! :)

Official Plans

We got our official plans back a few months ago, here they are in impossibly small print to make out any details ;)...

Latest Basement Plan

Haven't posted in awhile because our timeline has moved out to early next year for breaking ground.  However, we have been slowly finalizing plans and preparing.  Here is the latest version of the basement plans.  Of course this will all be unfinished, so it's just a pipe dream for now, but still fun to think about anyway :)