Mike Goheen, from Goheen Construction, is doing the excavation for our build. He and his guys Mike and Kevin put the driveway in a few weeks back, and now they are digging the foundations. Yup, plural. Two foundations. We’re going to have a main house, a garden suite and the garage will be slab on grade.

We are really happy with the progress the guys have made. Mike is in a holding pattern right now as we figure out what to do with the big hunk of Canadian Shield that’s under the main house. It’s also under the garden suite, but we’re just going to build up. The thing is it’s really important to us that we have the front porch of our house just above grade so we don’t have to have a railing. That means the crawl space needs to be 3 feet plus below grade. But we have our best man on the job! Here’s some photos of the excavation.