The yellow flags are hard to see in the photos, but we met the builder early this morning to stake out the house location. Lots of standing in the cold while Matt did math. 🙂 Then he walked out, looked around, and hammered a stake into the ground. What? No measuring to find a corner? Nope. He just started somewhere, and it ended up being just right North to South and also how it was oriented to the street. We chose to move it 35ft East to maximize our backyard space. Otherwise it was shockingly accurate. And by the time he worked his way around the house and angled garage, he was only 2 inches off the measurement on the last wall! Considering he's working on uneven ground with measuring tapes tied to flexible stakes, it was crazy close.
Excavation starts Wednesday. They'll knock down the big hill that is under the future garage and push that dirt into the valley of the back yard to start to level things out. We think we need to correct approx 15ft of elevation drop. Whether we address that with a retaining wall or a slope is yet to be decided. We need the excavation guy to check the drop with his tool. Then we'll know what we're dealing with.
The site is about to change again!
