Step 4:
Foundation
The long awaited day came. We stopped
by one day and found a hole where our grassy lot once was. I have never
been so excited over a pile of dirt in my life. It was a beautiful site, literally.
It only took about a week to dig
the site and pour the foundation. Unfortunately, this was also the
stormiest week of the summer and of course things couldn't go too
smoothly. We went to check out the site and found the back wall to be
cracked and buckling in.
This caused a huge set back. Our
project manager had never experienced this type of issue before and handed the
repair work off to their engineer. Honestly... This was the most
stressful part of this whole process and we considered paying the cancelation
fees and walking away due to extremely poor communication and customer
service.
It took 6 weeks to get the
foundation repaired. During which time we checked in weekly with our
project manager who consistently told us, he was not 'dealing with it' and that
he was sure it would be back on track the following week. It wasn't until
on the 5th week that we demanded to speak with his supervisor and have some
sort of answer that we were told it was confirmed to be the following week and
that we were not behind schedule because our framework was not scheduled until
6 weeks after the original foundation work. Whether we were feed
lies or got lucky on our demand timing we will never know, but sure
enough by the following week we have a new and perfect looking foundation.
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