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@Jagmandave - Thanks for the reply, I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is enough, the water coming off the front yard is what caused the flood in the basement. However there is always a solution so we are going to try this and if it doesn't work we will just have to try something else. I...

Very good eye, in fact there is more water than what you see, basically the entire front yard drains down into those two doors. The excavator put a 12 inch wide 18" deep french drain across the entire front of the building with 4" clean fill to start. When we pour the apron for the front two...

I wasn't happy with the steepness of the driveway, so I had my excavator come back and re-slope it, much better now, unfortunately it is going to need more retaining wall on the far side to hold back the dirt, so that is another project that will start soon. I'm going to talk to the concrete...

Well I haven't been good on my updates, mostly because I have been busy working on getting ready for concrete. Spent the last several weeks working on getting the retaining walls finished while the builders we working on getting the siding, trim and gutters finished. View from the patio...

Well progress is slow but it is moving in the right direction. They finished the roof last week except for the ridge vent, the roof really started to give the building some shape. Untitled The insulation wrap along with roof steel really makes it possible to start seeing the finished...

I agree that it would be nice to have fully covered walkway from the back door of the house to the barn. I have not come up with a good way to connect it yet, I think that a permanent structure would look strange as it would be single slope from the barn to the back door like an awning, and the...

The roofing started to go on today, you can get a good view of the LVLs now that the roofing is starting to be installed. I can't wait to see that truss cut out! Untitled by Kevin Martz, on Flickr Unfortunately this is all the farther they got all day today?

Friday afternoon I drove about an hour to go pick up the first load of retaining wall blocks. My trailer will only haul 70 of them at a time, so I brought the first 70 home. I also had minus and 1" clean delivered on Friday by a friend of mine. I dug the footers on Friday night and my boys (8...

I stayed home on Wednesday to make sure the trusses went up without issue. They brought in a crane as the 30' scissor trusses were relatively heavy. especially with the overhang framed on. Untitled by Kevin Martz, on Flickr Untitled by Kevin Martz, on Flickr The trusses went up in a couple...

The following Tuesday my wife called me at work to tell me that the siding had been delivered and it was the wrong color. I could not believe it, I had her send me pictures of the packing list, and indeed the color name was different as was the supplier. The color was supposed to be Ocean, we...

The contractors guys spent the next week and a half digging all of the post holes by hand, I could not believe that they did not have a tractor or skid steer with an auger, but hey he is paying them by the hour so that is his business. The holes got completed right before we left for our family...

We left for Kentucky lake the weekend before they were supposed to start and came home to, well less than before, but still water in the basement. I decided this problem needed to be fixed once and for all and spent Sunday afternoon digging down to the footing along the exterior foundation wall...

Been a while since I have updated as the project got delayed by the county for a solid 8 weeks. After my last post the contractor called a few days before he was supposed to start and informed me that the county was going to require full engineered prints for the build due to the vaulted...

Saturday I was supposed to be Crappie fishing with a buddy, but I figured with all the excitement over the weekend it was best if I stayed home and got some work done. I worked on the final coat of mud on my basement bathroom, then decide to go out and tackle cleaning up the mess of trees that...

Well it was quite the week for this project, but we continue to move forward. Grading was finished last Tuesday. Wednesday night brought 4 inches of rain that I was not prepared for. I left the house rather early to make a sales meeting about 90 minutes from the house, about 10 minutes away...

Grading is complete! Material delivery should be the end of next week. It’s strange after waiting over a decade for this it is very surreal to see it actually coming to fruition. I parked the ranger in it’s new home to give this a since of scale. Had to take out a few more trees than...

It official, the ground has been broken. Got some digging done last Tuesday by the contractor. Unfortunately it started to snow and has been raining since so we are waiting for things to dry out to get the rest of the grading done and get the gravel down. Ran into an unexpected piece of Romex...

I’m going to try and stick to the plan of keeping it empty until finished other than my truck and sxs. The area where the lawn are storage will be is going to be unfinished so worst case I can pile some stuff back there over the summer and slowly move things out. Talked to the excavator and...

In other news, this guy spent about an hour walking around the property last Thursday. Untitled by Kevin Martz, on Flickr Apparently permits are being pulled and I'll know in the next week or two what they don't like about my plans. luckily I had already staked off the building and patio...