Excavation, of a new home pad, is extremely important and should be taken seriously. This is one of the biggest investments a person will have in their life time so there must never be any short cuts taken in this area of new home pad, construction,. You will not be able to see in thses photos all of what goes in to the constuction, of a new home pad, but rest assured there were no shorts cuts done on this site. Excavation, of all trees and shrubs were tahen out first. Then the excavation for the new culvert, and installation of it done next before the cut and fills on the main new home pad,. This new home pad, had two levels a lower level and an upper level, each had to be compacted, before the concrete walls were constucted. After the concrete was completed the the home, was built on the new foundation,. The other new home pads you will view were single level dwellings, that also required compaction before the concrete foundations could be poured.