Weekly Wrap Up 2/25/22-- Building a New home

 Wow there is so much that goes into building a new home!  We have always bought pre-existing homes so never gone through this process before.  We are building in a new development and we have had several meetings over what we want to include in our home, colors of the floor, door handles, tile work, color of the outside of the house, the front door and even whether to have ceiling lights in which rooms.  While it is exciting it is also very overwhelming trying to predict where to have certain things place in a home that does not exist.  I am not very good with imaging where my furniture will go based on a 2 D drawing, and therefore where I need outlets, computer portals and even a phone jack (why do they even put in a phone jack anymore, who uses house phones these days)!

After several meetings and changing our minds several times, everything was finally approved and all the permits have been granted and the building process has begun.  The company we are using has a system where they send you pictures of every step of the building process, which I love since our house is in another state and we can't simply drive up to see progress.  My husband and I do plan on making a road trip sometime in March for the pre dry wall inspection and to bring my glass work to a storage facility.  

Some of the progress so far-- the project manager so far has been excellent in explaining the progress and answering questions.  

staking out our new home and finding out whether we will have a walk up or walk out basement.  We were thrilled to find out it will be a walk out basement.  

leveling out the ground and getting more good news in that our home lot is not going to require any more than 1 or 2 steps at max to enter.  Since this is our retirement home I am wanting to have minimal stairs to enter and a completely first floor living plan so we won't have to worry about any stairs as we get older.  The basement is being set up for my oldest to have as a mini apartment and the second level is also being set up as a mini apartment for our youngest.  they will still have to share our kitchen and laundry room but they will each have their own space for as long as they like.

Preparing to dig the basement and begin the concrete work.  I did have to ask what the pile of dirt was for in the front of the house. I was told that is where the garage will be.  

Pouring the concrete footings for our house

the molds are up for the walls of the basement -  someone who knows more about home building will better understand what is going on here than me!

Pouring concrete to form the basement walls

Waterproofing the cement

beginning to see plumbing going inside the house

Now we just wait until the cement cures (I don't know how long that takes) and the foundation to pass county inspection.  I will do another post on the building process bit later.