Building the Barndominium Step 1 – Preparing the Site and Getting Ready to Pour the Foundation

Reader Contribution by Jim Christie
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Things are starting to move along pretty quickly now. In previous posts, we’ve put the road in and gotten the well dug (with some drama) along with some other descriptions of the land and our reasons for moving from Australia to Texas. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be going from a relatively bare and unused piece of land to something with a relatively large building on it.

We’re constructing something called a Barndominium. The basis for the building is a steel building from a basically stock design.  To that, we’re adding a very large porch (12′ wide by 52′ along the front and 52′ down the west side, all covered). Inside of half of the building, we’re constructing a 2 bedroom home with relatively large rooms. We’ll be talking quite a bit about the construction of the home, so we won’t put that in this post. Today, we’ll describe the activities undertaken to get the site prepared.

We selected a site on the property where we could have a somewhat level area as well as having some nice trees to provide a good vista both from the house and from the porch where we will do a lot of outside living. In some of the pictures, hopefully you’ll be able to see that, but I think we have a very nice area that’s relatively close to the eastern border of the property but not too close to any buildings on the eastern property. Also, we have quite a few trees on the east and south sides of the building, providing a nice backdrop as well as good screening. Access is down the road from the main road to the north and around the west side of the building to the garage area.

Here’s a picture of the leveling operation:

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