With the car week behind us, it is time to get back to the new house build. The excavator crew are back at work building the retaining wall that we need along one side of the house. The natural terrain falls off pretty fast there, so the geotech engineered a wall structure. It uses 80 of these 4000 lbs concrete ‘lego’ blocks that interlock, and each layer has this cool geogrid metal fabric that extends under the driveway to provide slip support. This brings us up to almost 2.4 million pounds of concrete total in construction so far.

We also have all 10 electrical panels installed with the large conductors mostly complete. Circuit termination can really get going now. I need to get working on the transfer switch configuration, and get the 16kw UPS on order.

Lots to do in the coming months… time to get cracking!