Home stretch!

I met with Josh yesterday on the way home from Lincoln City to discuss some issues we were having with the foundation plan.

Bad news:  Our "Tall-Crawl" aka daylight basement was going to require Engineering because of lack of lateral support for the back wall.

Good news:  Josh thinks there is enough in the foundation budget to cover most of the costs to pour a slab.  The slab will provide lateral support for all 3 concrete walls, and is something that we would have done anyways further down the road.  Plus it gives us a LOT more usable storage downstairs (like, 1560 sq ft).  Can you say temporary shop??

It was either spend $1000 now on Engineering plus whatever funky they would require... or buck up and spend $3k - $4k now for the slab and eliminate the Engineering costs.  $1k now and $4k later, or $4k now.  Easy decision.  Especially since we had budgeted $15k for the site prep costs, and I've spent about $800 so far on rock for the road.  Good thing we have an excavator!  Taking DIY to the next level, and saving about $10k.

In other news:  I picked up about 800' of conduit and PVC today for the water, sewer, communications and power.  Were going to finish up the dig-out and run our conduits this weekend.  Josh said our floorplans will arrive next week and we can apply for permits at the same time.  Were about 2 weeks out before the foundation is poured!

Conduit!

No pics of the build, but here is Tyler :)