Breaking Ground

Let the digging begin! We broke ground on January 21, 2009. Although it's not the ideal time of year to begin building a home in the midwest, it works for us!



As our excavator, Mark (we call him Miracle Mark!), began digging, he hit solid rock about 2 feet down.







Luckily, Mark was able to bring in some reinforcements! This guy operated this machine for 3-4 days. He was able to take out an additional 3 feet of the rock. It was an amazing process...and noisy! It brought a few of our neighbors up our hill to check out what was taking place!

If you look closely, you can see the layers of soil and rock. This machine is digging out the frost wall on the walkout side of the basement.

Mark adds gravel to prepare for the concrete guys.