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The
Start of construction was fairly swift for our home.
We met with our construction supervisor, or
builder, the
week prior to construction and laid out the location and
position that the house will be built.
The process took about an hour and we had a good
idea of what to expect in the coming weeks as
construction progresses.
The first stage of any home is obviously the
foundation.
The site was “graded”, or leveled off, for the base of
the house and its surrounding area to sit level and to
channel water away from the home when it rains.
Our home will be built on a “monolithic slab”
foundation, a single piece of thick concrete that
supports the entire home.
Some homes are built with crawlspaces or
basements, depending on the terrain, climate and buyer’s
preference.
The first step for the foundation involved the crew
marking the foundation boundaries and digging
trenches along them.
The trenches are then filled with steel
reinforced concrete to make a sturdy platform for
the masonry work.
The next day after the concrete is poured,
masons lays cinderblocks and bricks around the
perimeter of the house and the major load bearing
points. Oddly
enough, at this point, the house looks very small
compared to what you might envision it to be.
We actually went to the home site with a tape
measure to make sure we didn’t get a “miniature”
version of our home built by mistake.
Sure enough, it was the right size, and as we
have come to find out,
looks will be deceiving throughout the
construction process.
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