As a quick update, we broke ground on Wednesday (04/05/2017) but the rain caused the "footing" step to be delayed to Monday 04/10/2017. What they did is excavating the site with large machines and grading the land to promote proper drainage. However, the engineer found some unsuitable soil (which is not good enough to hold the weight of the foundation) on one part where the foundation will sit on so they would have to continue to dig until they hit better soil, then replace the bad soil with lifts and dry soil that is more suitable for the foundation. That adds 2 more days to the delay so the footing is now pushed to Wednesday 04/12/2017. Below are a few photos of the site. We paid extra to have a premium home site: we won't have another house right next to us on the left side (if we're facing the house) nor behind us; from the back of the house we will see only trees and a pond on the left of the backyard.
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