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We have Superior Walls!

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Drone Shot Taken & Sent to us by Our Neighbors Superior Walls put in July 25, 2017 and we visited the site the following day.... During the selection process Darryl and I did a significant amount of research and chose a product called Superior Walls for our foundation. The standard would have been a poured concrete foundation and in our state, NY, concrete block foundations also used to be very common. Superior walls were an a option on the Master Selection sheet. The cost of the upgrade to Superior walls for our home, the Avalon, was $10k. Yes, a bit pricey, but a future benefit for us when we finish our basement after close. Everyone keeps asking us what Superior Walls are so here is my very non-professional description. Superior walls are manufactured in a factory and are basically precast 4'x8' (I think), pre-framed (for drywall) and fully insulated foundation walls. According to our research they offer a dryer basement that will be less susceptible to mo

We officially broke ground!

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On July 19th we were scheduled for our second Pre-construction meeting at the model home with our PM and SR to review final changes. In preparation for the meeting we visited our lot the day before to walk the property and check out the stakes they had put in the dirt to outline our future home. A friend told us about a cool app on the phone that we used to trace our exact property lines. If you want to check it out it's called LandGlide and it was very accurate based on the stakes the PM had set. While there we were also checking out all the other houses to see which exterior stone we would like for our home that would go well with our Twilight Shadow siding. The stone was the last decision we had to make in regards to selections and we wanted to choose it before heading to the next day's meeting. Back to the pre-construction meeting... To my surprise, when I pulled into the model home on Wednesday morning for the meeting and looked up the hill towards our lot the exca