Banks

I finally finished my loan application today for a construction loan. Ouch. I spent so long on it, I can't believe it. They wanted page after page after page of info. I had to submit so many documents, my head could have spun around.
I started it two weeks ago when I was home with a nasty cold. I sent the last of it in today. Yahoo.
On top of it, I am so scared of getting a loan since I have never had a mortgage or any loan this large before.
I hope it goes well.

Concrete slab

Slab all finished a few weeks ago.

Up close to the sill plates I framed myself. Concrete guy wanted to pour up to them or else throw a board across. I didn't want that because then for the rest of my life I would be stepping over 3/4 inches of board. The double sill plate is his first choice, so I made it happen with a lot of research and tools, and frustration. End result in my work = pride.

Colorific

What about this color scheme?

I am definitely not going with beige.

Connecting septic field

The excavator has to add soil to fill in a valley between the septic field and the knoll where the house is going. He was able to use my own material from piles dug out earlier. I had to get County approval first to make sure they were cool with it now being sand in that location.

The location is not where the drainage will be. This goes there the septic pipe will run from the tank to the d-box - above the field, below the house.

Backfilling Septic Tank

Septic tank backfilled

The backfilling is all set. Pipes from the house to the distribution box next.

Backfilling septic tank

The septic tank has been leveled and sealed up. Time to backfill. 

Sealing septic tank

The excavator climbed inside and sealed up the weeping hole. The maker leaves a tiny hole in order for water to seep out while the tank sits in the yard waiting to be sold. This way the tank doesn't fill up with water which would make for a heavy and troublesome load. On the building site the hole gets filled with a stub of pencil and then coated with thick tar.

Daylight drain

The daylight end of the footing drains is seen here at the bottom of the frame. It is a black corrugated perforated pipe. The open end here is facing downhill toward my intermittent stream.

Septic tank

County requires the septic tank 10' minimum from the house.

The transom for leveling.

Septic Tank

I arrived just after the septic tank was set in the ground. If only I hadn't taken the long way to the site I could have seen it lowering in the ground. It is a 1,000 gallon tank as per the County Health Department.

It all went well.

Backfilled foundation hole

The retaining walls will be made later on, so this front corner steep grade won't be the finished grade for the corner. It will be a gradual slope.

I am so blessed that the ground was all shale. I got to use what was dug out of the hole for the backfill. 

The white material is a fabric used to cover the top of the footing drains.