Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Building a House: From Slab to Vertical Construction Excitement! #shorts

29 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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Two hosts watch the final concrete pour before the main slab, marking the real start of their house build. Once it cures in days, vertical construction begins, the phase they find most exciting because the house actually takes shape. The lot is nearly an acre, with four weeks of underground pipe work most people never see.

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We have one more pour before we pour the big slab, and that's kind of like in my mind, it's like a start of a project because usually from the time we pour the slab, we can start going vertical in the next couple days after that. So the vertical part is really the really exciting part for like me, and that's when you start to see a house, and we're not too Catherine and I are both visiting the lot, and we see the stakes out there.
It's a big piece of land. This is almost an acre of land. And it's so fascinating, right, that they are laying out all of these pipes, all of this stuff that no one ever thinks about. The fact that that's a 4-week process is amazing.