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Site Work Preparing for Precast Foundation

Bob teams up with Michael Shiels, the project's general contractor, to discuss the foundation prep work that is underway.

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Bob teams up with general contractor Michael Shiels to discuss the foundation prep work underway. The home site began as a wedge of raw forest on the side of a hill, but the contractor's team has sliced a shelf out of the hill in order to lay a flat foundation.

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