Day 1: Groundbreaking

After many months of home design and permit application, groundbreaking day began!

At 10:00 am, Steve began digging out the roots of the oak tree. There was a large amount of nice looking "topsoil" down around the roots. This soil was piled up separate from the more sandy soil located on top. During final landscaping, the topsoil will be spread out for the garden.

After a day of digging and moving soil around the site, the initial cut for the home is nearly complete. Here Georg, the GC from Integral Construction, and Steve are seen checking flatness of the slab subgrade with a LASER level.


I feel good now that things are started. Today was a pretty dramatic change for the site. Until the next post, thanks for reading.