September 15, 2012

It's been a disappointing week. I was so excited to see the surveyors staking out the lot on Wednesday, unil I did some measuring and found the stakes were ten feet off. My builder reassured me the stakes were in the right place, that they purposely offset the stakes by 10 feet. Unfortunately when the excavator finished digging on Thursday, I realized the 10 foot offset was in the wrong direction, so our foundation was staked at 20 feet off. It's not that we have a big lot to begin with. Now that we are all on the same page, the surveyor can restake, the excavator can redig, and we might end up with a foundation this week. I knew there would be issues throughout this process; I'm hoping they get a lot smaller from here.