So we have the perenial "glass-half-empty" or "glass-half-full" perspectival argument. Because we messed around with with big oaks in the back and tried to work around them, we never did get our land graded the way I guess it should have been graded. So we had the "footings" guy come out and do his footing thing and his comment to Rhett at the end of the day was "Wow...I sure did need to use a lot of concrete." And, "Gee, you sure have a high foundation." (I can't vouch the terms were "wow" and "gee"). So maybe we don't freak out but we are definitely very concerned. No one wants to build the ugly, freaky-looking high-foundation house in a normal neighborhood where most folks have three or four steps to walk up to get to the front door and we need a rope-and-pulley system for hardy visitors. I guess we could also direct them out to the back door which will now be leading straight out onto the dirt pile (below).
So, you ask, what's the "glass-half-full" scenario? Well, our real-contractor-in-everything-but-official-name brought a landscaping guy out to look at the freakish dimensions of the foundation and the landscaping guy said that the high foundation provided "interesting landscaping possibilities." Trees and life-size statues of the saints, I suppose.
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