Construction on our new house began the week of January 23, 2017.

Our builder, Brad Cooper (http://www.mc2homes.com/), has been extremely helpful in leading us through the house building process and is doing an excellent job so far.  We are doubly appreciative of his efforts on our behalf since he is not going to be completing the build.  He is going to be taking the build through the sheetrocking and taping and we will be doing all of the finish carpentry, cabinetry and flooring ourselves.

I am certain that I am the worst type of client for Brad to have since I know just enough about construction to be able to formulate really stupid questions and harass him by constantly reminding him of the obvious.

By the end of the first week, they had leveled the ground, dug the holes for the footings and poured the concrete footings.

The concrete they used for the footings must have been some specialized kind of concrete made specifically for footings.  I picked up a piece of the concrete slag and was surprised at how light it was compared to similar sized piece of sidewalk concrete.

Tina and I have been visiting the build site, which is about a 45 minute drive from our rental house, every Saturday.  The photos above are from the first Saturday we went there.  We were both extremely surprised how small the house looked with just the footings poured.  It really did not look much bigger than a small garden shed and we were both left wondering where we were going to put all of our stuff.