Back filled and ready for a frame

Friday and Saturday were devoted to backfilling and general clean up around the site.

Besides backfilling around the pad we also installed an additional 1" and 3/4" conduit along with the already 2" conduit leading to the garage and back filled this trench as well. The 2" will be for the feed to the sub electrical panel in the garage and the other to conduit will be for cable and possible internet feed in the future.

Some huge rocks were excavated when this trench was dug so backfilling had to be done a little more carefully so as not to crush any of the conduit. It made for a lot more manual work to just to get the area cleaned up.

This week will be geared towards getting the
SIPs delivered according to my schedule. Right now it is looking like the day after Thanksgiving which would work out perfectly. This may be a long shot right now but I will no more as the week progresses. I have actually brokered my own truck through SWIFT trucking. If I can in fact make this work it will save us a considerable amount in shipping.

The SIPs are from Enercept out of Watertown SD. I could have purchased them locally but when it came right down to price and my vote of confidence in the local supplier I had to go with http://www.enercept.com/

We received the contracts and shop drawings and have all of them approved so they should begin this week manufacturing them. As I mentioned it may be a long shot for a week from Friday delivery but who knows. Along with the possible Friday delivery I will also need to get a 6000 pound fork lift with a 42' reach delivered to the site to off load the SIPs as well as have it for installation of them. This will most likely come out of Flagstaff. I have done a lot of calling around and just have to confirm the delivery date at this point.

Our hopes are still for a raising of the frame the week of the 27th of this month. I will be speaking with Alan this week to get a better idea if this is still holding true. So far the weather has been cooperating, I just hope the trend continues. Here are a few more pictures of the backfilled pad.