Despite the extreme cold, our excavator had the heavy machinery back on site this morning.  The backfill wraps up the foundation stage of our project.  

The underground phase of a project has a certain element of risk and unpredictability. Contractor selection is essential here and we were fortunate to have picked all excellent operators. We appear to be right on budget as we move into the framing stage of our project.

Underground and utility or basement work may be the stage of building where the most money is spent yet the least amount of progress is visible. To date we have incurred significant cost to demolish, survey, dig, connect sewer, pour and prep the basement for backfill. Cost of work to date on site plus the design and permitting fees likely exceeds $75k at this point of the process. We will describe the costs of infill building in a future post. 

Here is what we have to show for our $75k.