I can’t believe how quickly they can work–they put the forms up and poured the foundation in one day (Wednesday). This is significant progress any way you look at it.
Here’s some of the pics I took–I’m taking pictures at an unprecedented pace now, and just selecting from them to present a thread of how the […]
We now have a bunch of gravel in the basement. Plus the county seeded the shoulder along where they graded the road.
Ever one to miss the obvious, the first thing I noticed was that chalk lines had been snapped along the footings, marking where the forms for the walls will go. I missed seeing the […]
When we went out last night, the footings were poured. Things are moving along pretty quick now.
What’s a footing, you ask? Check out these pictures. They go under the basement walls.
So, as I understand it, these need to be inspected, and then the forms for the basement walls go up, and the concrete gets poured […]
How much dirt is in a hole that measures 61 feet long by 35 feet wide by 10 feet deep?
None!
Excavator Mike finished the job yesterday from what I can tell. Not a single rock in sight either. Now I have a 15 foot tall pile of dirt to climb up. some of these photos were […]
I just added /casa to the GeoURL database, as much for the amusement factor as anything else.
So, once I get populated into the db, you should be able to
Today’s the day Excavator Mike got busy. There was a lot of action on the site today as Excavator Mike started in digging for the foundation, plus the county road crews dumped a couple truck loads of gravel at the end of my drive and packed it and graded my entrance quite nicely for me. […]
I followed the example of my friend Stan and went the “Classic” tractor route. I bought a 1952 Ford Model 8N yesterday from this guy named Homer who lives out in Holden (that’s way out in the country–an hour and a half drive from us). So now I’m a member of the tractor owners club.
Homer […]
What a hassle–we thought we’d get to dig this week, but the bureaucracy has thwarted our plans. Since the kids get such a big kick out of coming out to the place, they were as impatient as we are. So, we figured, why not let them get a head start on the digging?
We equipped them […]
This weekend our excavator graded our driveway and laid down gravel. Since our building permit hasn’t been issued yet, that’s about all that we can do. It’s a small amount of progress, but it’s significant. It’s starting to feel like we’re building a house. It definitely looks like we’re building a house now.
The driveway goes […]
Okay, so I’m interested in (among other things) energy efficiency. And of course, that’s a no-brainer, because you save money. To quote the Jerky Boys: “I need dough like anyone.”
So I have been looking at appliances, and it came to my attention that the washer and dryer are significant energy consumers in a typical house. […]