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Hello again! First I want to share some things that I didn't on the last post that I think will be interesting for anyone wanting to build. 

Our land slopes from south to north quite a bit, and John has always wanted a daylight basement. (What we are doing doesn't have a lot of daylight though, due to his greater desire for a storm shelter and safety! 😊 John is a safety nut!) So we had to grade the pad and wound up making two levels to place the containers on.


After the pad was leveled we had the holes dug for the footers. They wound up being about 2.5 feet wide by 4 feet long (the width of a backhoe bucket!) We were hoping to dig down 5-6 feet, but when they got to about 3 feet they hit solid rock, which is what we were aiming for anyways. 



You can see in the backgrounds of these pictures how dense the trees were. While we were waiting on things to get moving John rented a skid steer to clear out some of the trees and brush so that we could get the crane in and set the containers without any trouble. The skid steer was amazing for pushing over and uprooting trees, instead of an overgrown jungle, most of our yard looks like a park!

In the midst of this waiting time, we also got some advice on building a cinder block wall around the containers and then we would set the framing, insulation and siding on that. We plan to insulate the ouside and leave as many of the metal container walls as possible on the inside! 

So they dug a footer for the block wall all the way around the perimeter. This was so neat because I could finally visualize the size of the house. 


As you can see in the above picture, we have two footers for the "basement" container stack in the back and two footers for the front stack. (The one on the right is the one we framed around because of the infamous blowout 😣) 

The base for the wall is poured also!! Yay!! So excited to see progress! We bought and had delivered 1000 cinder blocks and a truckload of sand!

Thanks for joining our adventure!

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