1/15/11 - Underground Plumbing Completed and it has been Backfilled

Well, they've made a little progress this week....the underground plumbing has been completed.  We choose to have the basement in the bathroom pre-plumbed, so in the future when we finish the basement we will not have to jack-hammer the concrete to put the plumbing in.  It will make it much easier to put a bathroom in to the basement in the future!

Here is a picture of where they have placed our sump-pump.  We are very please with this location, because this is in the area of the basement where we will be putting in an additional bedroom (sometime down the line), or will make it into a workout room.  Just happy that it won't be out in the entertainment area we plan to build, with a bar, pool table, and big screen TV.

 This picture shows the plumbing that has been done for our bathroom that we will put in down the line.

Also, we are now able to get an idea of what our yard will look like.  Though the yard hasn't been completely graded, they have backfilled the dirt around the foundation.  Below is a picture of the front of the house.  On the left side will be our front porch and on the right side will be our 3 car tandem garage.

Here is a different view of what our garage looks like.  I took the picture from the back of the house.

 Here is a picture of the back of our foundation standing in the southwest side of our back yard.

And one more picture of the back of our foundation, from the southeast corner of our yard.  Yes, it's a pretty small yard, but we have a nice sized house.  I guess there has to be some give and take.  :-)

 

And this is the street we will live on.  Kind of a lame name, but better than some of the others, like, Mimosa or Triple Crown.  We think the people that named the streets must have been watching some horse racing while drinking Mimosas.  

 

Come on already, I want to see the framing start!  Get the basement poured!