{"id":1170,"date":"2016-02-22T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2016-02-22T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:46:52","slug":"breaking-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Ground!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I figured I might as well post my house building journey here since it’s one of a kind and I can try to immortalize the experience in this blog.<\/p>\n

It was a long long process but we finally have broken ground on our dream house here in Cayman.<\/p>\n

Our friend and brilliant architect designed it for us. It’s essentially three pods attached by an upper floor which creates some nice usable outdoor space. It’ll be completely net zero using solar. <\/p>\n

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We’ve just put in 51 piles going about 25 feet deep. The next step is the slab and eventually the ICF (insulated concrete foam blocks). We’re hoping to have the structure up in about 4-5 months and the entire process should take 12 months to complete.<\/p>\n

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I figured I might as well post my house building journey here since it’s one of a kind and I can try to immortalize the experience in this blog. It was a long long process but we finally have broken ground on our dream house here in Cayman. Our friend and brilliant architect designed it … Continue reading Breaking Ground!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[43,42,41,44,40],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-our-home","tag-cayman-construction","tag-cayman-dream-home","tag-cayman-islands-dream-home","tag-cayman-islands-vista-del-mar","tag-new-home-cayman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IMbd-iS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}