I stopped by today to check out the progress, but nothing new had happened that i could see, but for whatever reason I felt compelled to clean up some of the fallen branches in the wooded part of our lot… It was actually a lot of fun, I always thought peet was making it up [...]
Archive > May 2007
Basement Walls are Standing
It didn’t take long to set, the forms were off of the basement walls the next day and there was some sort of black sealant on the below ground parts of the outside of the walls. There was also some small round gravel spread around the base of the area outside the walls for drainage [...]
Basement Wall Forms are Up
Sure enough, the day after the hole was dug and the footings poured, the basement walls were poured too! Thanks to Jen for these photos. The cement at the top of the forms was hot to the touch, either the sun was hotter than I thought, or there was some sort of chemical accelerator in [...]
Breaking Ground and Foundation!
Sure enough, the next day, the entire hole for the house was dug, and the footings of the foundation were poured! There were huge piles of dirt on either side of the hole that i climbed up just for fun. …
Here we go!
There will be many photos, we’ll try to take some every time we stop by the site. You can imagine the excitement today when we saw this excavator parked in front of our lot! Today an empty lot, tomorrow our very own hole in the ground!
