2 Site Work 2.1 Job Utilities 2.1.1. Job-Site Telephone Service. You shall arrange for job-site telephone service to be in place at or as soon as possible after the start of the work; we will have provided the permanent underground telephone cable to the job site, as described at 2.2.4 below, by the start of work. 2.1.2. Temporary Electrical Service. You shall arrange for job-site electrical power as required for the work. We will provide primary electrical service to its final location, as described at 2.2.3 below, as quickly as the local utility company will comply with our timely request; if a temporary connection to the utility lines is not immediately possible or is uneconomic, you shall provide temporary electrical power by means of a portable generator until a permanent electrical connection is feasible. 2.2 Permanent Utilities & Services 2.2.1. Access Road. We will provide, by the start of the work, an access road suitable for construction equipment delivery to the job site. 2.2.2. Well. We will provide a water well suitable for use as the domestic water supply for this house, including a pitless adapter, pump and pump-control equipment. You will supply a buried water-supply pipe from the wellhead to the building site and a buried pipe containing the necessary power and control wiring to the wellhead from the house. 2.2.3 Electricity 2.2.3.1. Primary Service. We will arrange with the local electrical utility company for pole-based delivery of primary (high-voltage) service to a point in the vicinity of the building site, with stepdown to secondary service on the last pole. We anticipate that the final pole will lie east of the site by not over two hundred feet. 2.2.3.2. Secondary Service. You shall provide an undergrounded connection for secondary service from the utility-company-provided last pole, as described at 2.2.3.1 above, to the house service-entry point. 2.2.3.3. Siting. The trench, as described at 2.7.2.4 below, shall follow the shortest practical route. You shall consult with us on possible routes before doing any actual work. 2.2.3.4. Capacity. The secondary-service lines shall be capable of supplying a minimum of 200-ampere service to the building site, but conduit suitable for a second 200-ampere line shall be included in the trench as a reserve against future expansion; the house panel, as described 8.1.2 below, shall be 200-ampere service. 2.2.3.4. Utility. You shall consult with and obtain all needed permissions and permits from the subject utility company before undertaking the electrical service run. 2.2.4. Telephone. We will provide underground telephone- service cable to the job site. 2.2.5. Miscellaneous Service Wiring. We will provide, in the same trench as the telephone cable, power and control lines for the automatic gate opener described at 2.9.1.3 below and power and signal lines for an intercom at that gate as described at 11.3 below, run to the gate location in conduit. 2.3 Pads 2.3.1 House Pad 2.3.1.1. Pad Preparation. You shall clear and level a pad area as required for the construction, keeping to the practicable minimum all disturbance to the natural site. You shall site the pad where shown on the site drawings. 2.3.1.2 Orientation. The major axis of the building shall be oriented such that the southerly face of the house faces true south. You shall determine true directions by transit sighting, not by use of a compass. 2.3.1.3. Preliminary Building Layout. You shall do no post-clearing site work until we have inspected, on the site, and approved the proposed location and staking out of the building on the pad. We will be timely with such inspection, so as not to unduly delay the work. 2.3.2 Garage Pad 2.3.2.1. Pad Preparation. You shall clear and level a pad area as required for the construction, keeping to the practicable minimum all disturbance to the natural site. 2.3.2.2. Orientation. You shall so place the pad as to accomodate a foundation placed with its east edge parallel to the west edge of the house foundation and 16'1-1/2" west of it and its north and south edges collinear with the corresponding house foundation edges, as shown on the site plan. 2.3.2.3. Preliminary Building Layout. You shall do no post-clearing site work until we have inspected, on the site, and approved the proposed location and staking out of the garage on the pad. We will perform that inspection within 24 hours of your request for it. 2.4 Water Tank 2.4.1. Tank Size. You shall install a water-storage tank of 2,250 gallons capacity, so shaped as to not exceed 8 feet in width or 6 feet in height (exclusive of float-valve attachment). 2.4.2. Tank Type. The tank shall be steel, of a type intended for domestic potable-water storage. The tank shall have the usual top inlet and bottom outlet plus a lidded inspection/access port on the top. It shall include the standard fittings for placement of a float-actuated switch. The tank's interior shall be coated completely with expoxy applied by a licensed applicator and guaranteed by the coating manufacturer. 2.4.3. Siting. The tank shall be located in a room in the enclosure between the house and the garage, as shown on the design plans and described at 12.4 below. 2.4.4. Supports. You shall place the tank over a pattern of cedar or redwood boards of sufficient size and spacing to adequately support the tank and keep it level while yet keeping it from contact with the concrete floor slab. 2.5 Septic System 2.5.1. System. We will timely provide a septic tank and leach-field system suitable for this house, with sewer pipe running to the immediate vicinity of the house sewer-line wall passage. 2.5.2. Field Protection. The system field area, when installed, will be staked out such that its boundaries are apparent, as by string markers. You shall take care that, to avoid soil compaction, no vehicles or heavy equipment enter the field area during the work. 2.6 Electrical Grounding System 2.6.1. Location. The main house ground shall be located within 12 inches of the north-wall perimeter of the house, at approximately the location that the main electrical service and other pipes and conduits enter the house. 2.6.2. Nature. The grounding system shall be designed in collaboration with a licensed electrician such that it conforms to all requirements of this specification, including all code compliance. It shall not require any continuing maintenance, such as salting or watering, to maintain its conformity to those requirements. 2.6.3. Resistance. The resistance to true ground of the installed grounding system shall measure not over 5 ohms. The system shall be designed to meet the resistance criterion in all weather, including ground freeze to reasonably expected depths. 2.7 Pipes And Conduits 2.7.1 Trenching--General 2.7.1.1. Timing Of Trenching. You shall prepare trenches as required and described more particularly below for all pipes and conduits that will enter or leave the house other than those which we will provide, as described above. You shall place all corresponding pipes and conduits in those trenches and shall complete filling and covering of those trenches as appropriate for each pipe or conduit before final grading and backfilling. 2.7.1.2. House Entrance. All pipes and conduits except the cold-water supply, described at 2.7.3 below, shall have their house-access end break grade within a few inches of the foundation perimeter on the north side. Each shall be aligned with its entrance path as shown on the house plans. Passage of each such pipe or conduit through the house wall shall be as described elsewhere in these specifications. 2.7.1.3. Maps. You shall provide us with clear diagrams of the final placement of each trench, conduit, or pipe such that it can be readily located for any possible maintenance or repair. 2.7.1.4. Supplied. We will, as described at various places herein, provide for trenching, placement, and burial of: the telephone cable to the house; the intercom and road-gate power and control cabling from the gate location to the house; water pipe and well-pump power and control cables from the well to the house; and a complete septic system including sewer piping to the house. 2.7.2 Trenching--Specific 2.7.2.1. Main Electricity-Supply Conduit. You shall bring the house electrical line from the nearest power pole to the house by underground supply. The trenching and conduit shall be as required by code and the local electric utility company for such undergrounding. 2.7.2.2. Outdoor Electrical Supply. You shall provide buried and suitably protected cable or conduit, as may be appropriate, to bring electricity from the service area described at 2.7.1.2 above to outdoor electrical sockets located, roughly, at each of the four corners of the overall structure and approximately at the midpoint of the two long walls. 2.7.2.3. Outdoor Water Supply. You shall provide buried piping at a suitable depth from the tank room described at 12.4 below to outside freezeproof standpipes located at, approximately, the same places as the outdoor electrical taps described at 2.7.2.3 above. 2.7.2.4. Satellite-Antenna Wiring Conduit. You shall run cabling, as supplied by us, from the house to the satellite- antenna pad described at 2.8, running it inside standard 2-inch electrical conduit. The conduit at the antenna-pad end shall be overhung in an upside-down "U" to preclude rainwater entering the pipe, and shall break surface just outside the pole-support pad. You shall bury the pipe at least 1 foot below grade. 2.7.3 Cold-Water Supply 2.7.3.1. Pipe End. The cold-water supply to the holding tank described at 2.4 above will break grade within the water-tank-room area of the garage-house enclosed area described at 12 below. The entry point shall be in the northeast area of that room, as the exact placement of the tank and its pad in that area dictates. 2.7.3.2. House Entry. The cold-water-supply entry to the house from the post-holding-tank pump described at 7.1.4 below shall be within the water-tank-room area of the garage-house enclosed area described at 12 below. The entry point shall be in the northeast area of that room, as the exact placement of the tank outlet and pump in that area dictate. 2.7.3.3. Wall Passage. A 1" main supply pipe shall pass through the house west wall just above the level of the top of the house sole plate. The pipe shall be rigidly clamped to the house wall at the entry point so as to prevent movement in any direction and the wall penetration shall be thoroughly caulked. 2.8 Satellite-Dish Mount 2.8.1. Location. You shall provide a pad-mounted pole suitable for later installation of a satellite-television antenna. You shall site that pad approximately 35 feet east along a line being the extension of the east-west centerline of the house. Prior to any associated work, you shall verify an exact location in consultation with us. 2.8.2. Pole. The antenna support pole shall be of 6-inch i.d. Schedule-40 steel. It shall be of a length such that it shall extend 7 feet above the finished pad level and at least 4 feet below grade. 2.8.3. Anti-Twist Stablizers. You shall drill two pairs of holes through the pipe such that the members of each pair face one another across a diameter and are themselves of a size to just allow a piece of heavy rebar to pass through. You shall place the pairs so that the rebar pieces are at right angles one to one another and about 6 inches apart; the lower rebar piece shall be approximately 1 foot above the bottom of the pipe. You shall pass rebar as described through the said hole pairs such that rebar extends 12 inches beyond the pipe wall on each side and shall then weld that rebar in place at each exit hole. 2.8.4. Concrete. You shall set the pole, with stabilizers as described, in a concrete pad of 48 by 48 inches area and 48 inches depth. The concrete shall overlay 6 inches of compacted gravel. You shall use mesh or rebar as appropriate for maximum strength. You shall also fill the pole with concrete during the pour. 2.8.5. Setting. You shall place the pole with its bottom roughly flush with the lower face of the concrete pad, with its anti-twist welded-rebar stabliizers embedded therein; the stabilizers shall be set approximately diagonal to the square pad. You shall take great and continuing care when setting the pole, during the pour, and as the concrete sets up to assure that the pole is as nearly true vertical as practicable. 2.9 Gating & Fencing 2.9.1. Vehicle Gate. You shall install a "pipe gate" of width sufficient to fully cross the entrance road at the point where the gate wiring, as described at 2.2.5 above, breaks ground; the lowest member or element shall be at least 2 feet above ground. The gate shall not exceed 300 pounds in weight. The gate shall be provided with an automatic opener as described at 11.2 below, with power provided by the miscellaneous wiring as described at 2.2.4 above. The opener shall be controllable both by radio control and by switch control at the house, with the house control signals carried as part of the miscellaneous wiring at 2.2.4 above. The gate shall swing open inward (toward the house), opening to the left as seen from outside the fence. 2.9.2. Edge Fencing. You shall provide approximately twelve feet of fencing on either side of the gate described at 2.9.1 above, extending on each side from the gate edge out in line with the gate. The fencing shall be eight-foot "deer and rodent" fencing. 2.9.3. Intercom Mount. You shall provide a post, pole, or similar suitable mount for the remote intercom station, as described at 2.2.5 and 2.7.1.4 above and 11.3 below, so placed as to be convenient to the driver of a car or truck of any reasonable size stopped at the entrance gate. 2.10 Final Grading 2.10.1. Timing. You shall do backfilling and final grading only when all precedent work, including foundation construction and underground pipe and conduit trenching and placement, is complete. 2.10.2. Level. The grade at the house perimeter and at the garage perimeter shall be no less than 4 inches or more than 6 inches below the respective foundation tops. 2.10.3. Slope. The backfill grading around the house and garage, considered as a unit, shall be such that the ground level slopes away from the perimeter at a slope of at least 5 percent (1 in 20) for at least 50 feet in all directions.