How Firm a Foundation

 We have a solid foundation….  As we had the excavation going on, I couldn’t help but be reminded of a Primary song – TheWise Man and The Foolish Man.  The jist of the song is the wise man built his house upon a rock, it rained, and the house stayed strong.  On the otherhand…the foolish man built his house upon the sand, it rained, and the floods washed the house away.  Living on the coast, you can pretty much only build upon the sand.  Still, they say our foundation is nice and strong.  

Here is a lovely shot of the forms before the foundation was poured....  I'm standing in the garage.

Here is another of the foundation. 

 We do have a little problem with the garage.  We were told by two people at Adair that our garage would end up lower than the traditional Adair home.  Adair likes to have no steps into the home - ours would have at least one, if not two.  Our excavator also told us that based on our lot,  we would end up with a lower than 'Adair Homes normal' garage - to decrease the driveway slope.  This is our garage/driveway.  

Notice that it looks like it sits up about a foot higher that it should.  That's because it does.  It is higher than the other Adair homes in our neighborhood!  We were told it was the way our floor plan was designed, and it would cost us money to 'engineer' it to be lower.  We are working on fixing this because I DO NOT want a driveway with this much slope!  After speaking with some people in the know, we found out Adair should have informed us of this higher than normal driveway and at the very least given us an opportunity to make a change.  I would have gone with the smaller floor plan just to get a normal slope to my driveway.  

Oh - here is the driveway 'head on'.  Ignore me - Brandon didn't tell me I was in the picture when he took it.  

The framers are at the house today.  While we hope they get started, they may have to wait to fix the driveway issue.... Plus, after the last 3 weeks of amazing sunny weather, today it decided to rain.  Of course - now we have wet lumber.  Timing...