okie boarder's house

In Our area they factor square footage of house, bedrooms, and bathrooms into figuring size of septic as well as soil makeup. But back to my original statement on impacts. Impacts may be a local term. By impacts I mean the new construction tax/fee that surely every municipality collects up front prior to issuing permit or may be part of the permit fee itself. Here, this fee is figured by many things including those in my open statement. Average 3/2 2500 sq ft house= $20k. If you figured the actual cost per toilet for new construction prob $8k when all said and done. If OK doesn't have their hand in this fee, I'm packing up and moving out.

Thought I would post some pictures of the property. It doesn't look real "pretty" right now since things are just starting to green up. You can get a pretty good idea of the layout, with it being more in dormant mode, though.

Here are some views from the south side of the property looking north and northwest.

Back (east) side of the property.



Further west...



Looking more NW...



Looking north around the mid section of the property west to east...



A few more views from the south looking north...









Here are some views from the west side of the property looking east.

Near the SW corner...



Mid area...our son is standing around where we want to put the house...



Near the SW corner...



A couple near the middle, looking east and NE...





These views are from the NW corner of the property.

Looking SE...







Looking east...



Looking NE again...



Looking north from the SW corner...wife (pink shirt) is at the NW corner of the property.



Looking east from SW corner...



Looking ENE from SW corner...

Went out to the property and took some new pics. These are pretty much the same views as I posted earlier. Obviously, things are filled in and much greener than they were in those last pics. We are working on cutting up a few of the downed trees and getting the wood split so it is ready for our first winter in the house.




















This picture is about 30-40 yards into the property on the south side close to the middle east to west. The nearby neighbor's dog kept coming over to see what we were up to...LOL

So, we had a lot of area cleared with a standard brush hog and the contractor had the dozer guy get started. With where we want the house, it looks like we will intrude upon the low area on the south. We also hadn't cleared that far, so it was time to stop and decide the next steps. This weekend, an acquaintance/colleague was able to pitch in to clear everything else we needed, along with some of the thicker stuff a normal brush hog wouldn't get anyway, using one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2adjkAfyvQ

We got all the area cleared we need to do some more extensive dirt work, and then some. We cleared some more areas to the north of the property, along the back of the property and created a nice open spot in the woods as a "pasture" that has trails leading in and out from where it is cleared by the house and across the back fence/property line.

The extra dirt work will start tomorrow to establish a different low lying area for drainage and prepare for the final house pad development...should be some good progress this week. I didn't get any pics with my phone and we still need to download off the good camera, so I'll get those posted once we do.

Some pictures from tonight...the pad is basically done other than some leveling tomorrow.

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Our wood pile is starting to shape up. Between the tree we cut on our place and the wood we cut off a construction job, we're getting a good pile to split. This is about half of what we have.



Heck my wife will burn that much in a week up here.

Nice looking lot

We had some additional dirt work done for drainage before final layout and placement of the house. There will be additional dirt moved around and the final grade will finalize the look, but the rough grading and drainage is complete.











The layout is complete and the trenches are dug for the footings. This next week should finalize everything for the footings and piers, and get them poured.

So, we worked with the local fire department to plan for a controlled burn of everything in that drainage creek. We were trying to get something scheduled for Saturday morning, but they didn't seem to have people available. We were headed out the to property to put up our deer stand Saturday morning and got a call from the fire chief...they burned for us Friday evening. Now that we have that done, we can move some dirt and address the drainage issue the city wants addressed. We were bummed we didn't get to see the fire in person, but they did post a picture to their FB page.

Before and after shot my wife took.



During the burn.



End results.















Deer stand set up and view from the stand.

The forms are up for the stem walls and being poured in a couple hours.

Looking Great!! How many sq feet was planned?

Took this picture Saturday, from the road to our south. It gives a nice perspective of the layout from a little further away.

Thanks! Yes, the concrete will just be burnished (some people call it). Basically, power troweled about twice as long as you would for a shop floor, so it gets super smooth and a bit of a shine to it. Like this...









I use photobucket.

More progress. Sand and steel is in and they are almost ready to pour the slab.

Yes, they did do compaction...that is their normal process. It was pretty solid...I walked around on it. We are expecting a lot of rain over the next few days and the slab pour won't be until next week, so we'll see what happens. They still have work to do to elevate the steel and tie into the stem wall, so they may do another compaction during that process. I'll check on that, though. It would be good to know for sure and make sure they have taken the correct steps. I would bet they do as this builder is very particular. If they didn't, he will get it taken care of. He hasn't seen this progress in person yet since he's been gone this week, but I'm sure he'll be looking at it carefully when he returns.

Jerry,
I'll comment on this. With pex, (or any system) the prefered method is to "home run" all the supplies. This mimimizes fittings so you only have the potential leaks at the manifold and then at the point of use. The worst thing that could happen is if you "tee'd" a tap in a line and the pour over it with concrete and then have a problem.