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Comments (2)Great blog! I just read through a bunch of it. I started a thread a while ago for people to link blogs all in one spot, if you want to add yours there. That way people can have links to a bunch from one spot. :) I will be following your journey! Here is a link that might be useful: Blog Thread...See MoreHome Building Progress Blogs
Comments (7)I think I am the original blogger haha. Except I just got my own www and use that. I started about 15 years ago when the kids were small and have always done that to keep other family updated, etc. so when we started building the house, I turned it into our home "blog" I use frontpage, even though it has been discontinued, it still is good enough for what I need. Here is a link that might be useful: Our Home Page...See MoreIt's June 2013! How is your build progressing?
Comments (99)We have finally been making some great progress!!! Right now we are working through interior trim, and the exterior is getting closer to complete. Stone is done and is having the grout done! Hope to be starting the finishing coats of stucco next week!!! Then we can move on and pour our stamped concrete pool decking- as well as the stamped turn around by the garages! We are hoping to be in by the first or second week of August even though our contract with our builder says July 29th move in date (yes it was in writing- silly on his part.) Side note- We are planting our 500 grape vines on Sunday! We also got offered a Co-Op for a local winery. We are considering it!! :-) Front stone going on! (dont have a finished picture of the porch yet sorry :-( ) Garage doors after install! Working on grout on the stone on the back of the house!! Covered porch framing finally finished- cant wait for them to come back and case the columns on the back porch! We decided to do a cedar tongue and grove stained porch ceiling on the front and back porches. :-) Grout complete on the carriage garage. We did a dark charcoal and I think it looks amazing! Pool ready for the hot tub and stone on the block wall for the hot tub and ready for the stamped concrete to be poured! Cabinets going in! Love the detailing on the hood! Espresso stained Island- the front will have espresso stained wainscoting with an 18 inch over hang and corbels /posts Entry way ceiling painted! Wainscoting in the upstairs hallway going in! Can't wait to see it painted- our trim is SW Creamy! Tray ceilings in the hallway with the crown in! (dont mind the miss matched doors- some of ours were not complete yet and they sent a filler to set the door! and it drives me nuts!) Site built steps started going in! Only the basement has been done so far! Crown going in the bedrooms! Everybody's homes look fantastic!!!! So jealous of those who are further along!!! :-)...See MoreFloor Plan Review / Ideas for Small Upgrades
Comments (31)I posted the following in the landscape section over at GardenWeb, but hoped ya'll would have some suggestions as well. There is an additional picture there as well which has the plot map with some notes on it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Everyone. I have run into a situation in my new construction where I am having drainage problems. Not necessarily for me, but for my two neighbors. In trying to be a good neighbor I'm wondering if you have any ideas to help me out. My property lies between two completed houses. The house to my right (off screen in the picture) was having some drainage issues on the front corner of my lot which is the back corner of their yard. They have trees planted and it is the low spot of their yard where the lawn slopes to. There is a bit of slope coming from their lawn towards mine, but I would only estimate it as 4' over Compounding the problem there is that the drainage ditch along the road there overflows it's banks and comes into both of our yards when there is a significant rain or snow melt. When the county inspectors saw the water there (possibly after being called by the neighbors) they required me to put a swale in my yard going from the front of my yard along the side and all the way to the back yard (light blue in the drawing). Not something I really wanted, but hey... life, lemons, lemonade, etc.. My plan was (in the future when money grows on trees) to make the swale into a dry creek bed with river rock and boulders. All draining to a large pond at the end of the swale (to be built later as well). The pond would probably be roughly a 20' by 30' oblong shape. Also along the swale I planned to put in a culvert and road so I could reach the far back corner of my lot where I will build a shop and vegetable garden. The swale is in now minus any landscaping or rocks and after this springs snow melt the water was running sometimes over 8" deep all the way to the end of the swale and washing out the dirt in the neighbor to my left's tree line. The big culprit, in my opinion was that the ditch along the road was draining through my swale and not through the developers planned drainage to the north (left in the picture). You can see in the plot picture that the easement has drainage heading between two lots to the north of me. Either way, I want to be a good neighbor and try to slow down the velocity of the drainage in the swale and had a few ideas I would like to run by everyone. First, I wonder if putting landscape fabric down and then small gravel in the bottom of the swale (larger rocks on the side and then a few boulders interspersed as well) would slow down the drainage or speed it up? Second, If I were to put in a smaller depression/mini pond along the swale's path before a culvert and road crosses it would it slow it further? Finally, could anyone verify that the pond as a catch basin at the end would be a good solution? I'm hoping that by landscaping the swale now, unfortunately as an unexpected expense, and following it up with a call to the developer and county regarding the ditch flowing through my yard and not their designed location will be enough to fix it. Any thoughts on this and also how to landscape/plant along the swale would be appreciated. Here is a link that might be useful: Other forum...See Moregbsim1
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