Water and Your Foundation

Greeting!

With the hot dry summer upon us, taking care of your home's foundation should be one of your top priorities.  After all, for most people, their home is their biggest investment.  And not taking care of your foundation can cost you tens of thousands of dollars.

With that said, I am going to post a series of videos created by R Michael Gray, a Texas Professional Structural Engineer whose specialty is slab-on-ground foundations for single family houses. While Mr. Gray talks about slab foundations in Houston, the same fundamentals apply to the DFW area.

The first video speaks to the fundamentals of slab-on ground foundations. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me!


Now enjoy this 7 minute video: How Texas Slab Foundations Work

Bluebird Park - Final Plat Approved

Greetings!

Well, we have some good news, Glen Rose City Council approved the final plat for Bluebird Park on July 9th. This means that we can finally get down to developing the land and building houses. If this seemed like a long drawn out process, it was! It involved 2 reviews and approval by Planning and Zoning and 2 reviews and approval by City Council. This amounted to about 4 month's time!

So as my wife Suz always asks, what now? We are going to bring in fill dirt to the fill in the low spots, bring in the utilities, pay the surveyor to mark off & survey the land, and build the road. It will still be a while but we are getting closer.