Once all the "plans" have been done and redone and yet pondered on again AND again, you start the next stage… foundation. This is the beginning of the framing for the foundation.
Then they pour…..
And then it has to cure…….
And while these pictures make it look as though it was a matter of a few days…..IT WAS NOT. We have remodeled homes, built one with a builder, built our little barn living quarters mostly ourselves except the foundation and framing. But this is a new endeavor to build a whole house. We have been dreaming and envisioning of this while living here for 12 years (if not longer). The plans took 4 years, we went through several versions, then all the quotes and decisions and re-decisions took another year, then we started! Only to find out the drop of of the land to be graded we figured was about a foot to a foot and 1/2 was actually approximately 4 ft. Next came the halt of foundation to decide on Piers. Some were as deep as 20 ft. Hmmmm…. All means delays of course and then…..The normally dry hot summer of Texas especially after several years of being in a drought and record breaking number of days for 100 degrees or more, this year……once we started……rainy….. But then again that wasn't the only delays. If you want to be your own builder, the hardest part (and we heard this before many times) is getting your contractors to show up and work! Never understood that…don't they want to be paid? Anyways…so it goes.
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