Now that the area is prepared, you need to get together with your excavator and decide where you
are going to position your house on the lot. The excavator will then mark out all of
the corners and prepare to start digging the basement.
Here is the excavator pushing the topsoil
Our lot has a high water table so we were unable to dig down the normal five to six feet
that a normal basement is dug, so we will have to compensate later by bringing soil in
from the rear of our lot to build up around the house.
Here is the excavators digging the footers
The first thing the excavator does is to push aside the topsoil so that it can be spread
on top of the ground again at final grade. This provides a good soil for grass and
flowers to grow. After the topsoil is removed, digging of the basement commences.
Here is the basement before we started forming the footers