The surveyor showed up. He spent a day with tripods, laser beam machines, and other magical devices and then, towards the end of the day, there was a lot of good old fashioned hammering. As soon as he left I walked the job site and found 2″ X 2″ wooden stakes pounded into the rock at each corner of the house And this house has a lot of corners, fourteen of them, I counted and then I double checked. Twice. He sprayed each of the fourteen stakes bright pink. Now we can move on to the foundation walls. Finally.