Our home starts on a solid foundation

We are now starting to see significant progress on your home, but not without a hiccup along the way.  On Monday April 5th, I took a drive to our property after work to find that the hole for our home have been dug.  It was about 10-12 feet deep, which I was surprised to see considering the fact that the ground level at the back of the house was to be at the same level as the basement floor.  In talking to the excavating contractor, he explained that they had to go this deep to get down to solid earth.  Everything above that was fill dirt.  I new there was fill on the property but I figured it was probably 6 feet deep.  With a very deep hole the contract would be filling it back in a layer at a time. Packing each layer to ensure that the home was on good stable ground.

At this point that I noticed that the garage was located on the wrong side of the house.  We had asked for the floor plan be flipped over, putting the garage on the east side of the house.  Well, the engineer did not flip the plans and I was not shown the plans after the engineers had made the requested changes.  The builder realized that the mistake was going to cost valuable time and money to correct, but this was not the home that we had asked to have built, so we worked out a compromise between us.  The builder is compensating us financially for their mistake and as of today we have a foundation in place, and the basement sewer lines have been laid out.  If progress continues as it has in the past 2 weeks we should see the framing of the home completed in the next 2 weeks.