Our House Build Update: More digging, and pouring footings

We have made some progress on our house build.  First, David had to do some more digging.  The first dig was just to lay out where the house would sit.  The second dig was to actually dig into the hill a little bit so the house wouldn't sit so high off the ground.

There's David on the Bobcat, digging away and kicking up huge clouds of red dust.  It hadn't rained for a while, so the ground was very dry and hard.  You can see that now he's up on a ledge, above where he dug into the hill.

This is what it looks like from the other direction.  That corner that was left higher than the rest is where the back porch will sit on a slab.  That was the ledge David was on top of on the Bobcat in the above picture.

Now with that digging done, it was time for the foundation crew to come in and start working.   We used McGee Brothers.  They came out and checked it out, and we went to their Greer office and picked out brick the same day.  The next day they dug the footings.  They were inspected the following morning, and they immediately poured the footings. 

Now our big hole is full of a maze of concrete.

It looks like a muddy mess right now, but the next step is to start laying the block for the foundation, which will then be bricked.  If you squint really hard and use your imagination, you and ALMOST see this house sitting there, right?  :-)

Thanks for coming by!  More pictures will come with each step of the build. 

*Note:  While David is the contractor on our build, he will be subbing out some of the work and doing other parts himself.  I will continue to let you know which parts he does himself, and which parts are done by subcontractors.