(click any picture for larger view)This is the site we saw when we drove up on Thursday Sept 1st. The backfill around the garage and inside the garage has been completed. There was so much going on today that I'm not sure if the drain for the one parking stall was placed. (I forgot to look.)
In this picture Tawny is running at full speed, like she always does when we're out at the land.
Freda is standing by the window for the main bath.That window and wall sure seem tall!!
When we got to the house today, Tawny was all excited. Who am I kidding, Tawny is always excited when we come here! Anyway, she was running around the house and wanted to come up to where Freda and I were, but she was a bit too scaredy cat to do that. So I asked her to sit so I could take her picture. We need to have a holding tank for the septic, and that tank should be going in this area. Since the tank wasn't placed before the house was backfilled then this dirt will need to be dug up again to place the tank...
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Hey Big John,
While it is true that tract builders can build one of their cookie-cutter houses in 90 days, they are rarely able to do so these days. This is due in large part to the tight supply for the skilled trades. In addition, tract builders build many copies of each house design, and therefore can stage the materials a long time before they are needed and schedule their crews on a rotating basis.
That's one reason why tract builders are sometimes able to build a house in 90 days.
However, custom homes are rarely completed in 90 days - 180 days is more the norm for traditional stick built custom homes. In our case, the ICF blocks and the radiant heating take a little more time to install that typical construction.
Hope that helps.
Mark
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