In May we got a lot of rock deliveries to patch up the road in the worst spots. As time has passed we realize we will be putting rock down on the entire driveway. We were hoping to avoid that as it ain't cheap! Oh well, it will make our road a lot nicer and easier to drive up, mostly during mud season. We bought a blow torch, yay fire!
We want to use it to treat wood that will be outside. Shou sugi ban, is a Japanese technique for treating wood. You burn/char the outer layer (driving the liquid out), then sand it and treat with linseed oil. We only did the burning part for the post on our mailbox. TBD how well or for how long this will work.
we have a mailbox! This was a milestone
This is my amazing friend Heather helping out on the land
Build site dug and ready for a basement!
That's all I got for May, in June things got more exciting. The basement went in and Matthew started a leave of absence. He was going to retire, but they really wanted to keep him and we decided a little more buffer wouldn't hurt. He goes back in October but only part time.
setting up the forms
pouring the walls
finishing work
cut my hair, thinking I'll go even shorter soon
after the forms were taken off
I forgot to mention I helped Bill put in a drain for our basement. In the right corner of this photo you can see the drain. We placed it one inch below the level the floor would be. We then attached a pipe that went under the footing and wrapped around the outside of the basement along two walls until it reaches a ditch. This photo shows the before rock...
This is after four hours of shoveling rock and leveling it out... I fell alseep at the dining table that night.
We moved out of our apartment and into the hunting cabin. This is our outdoor shower. We use a 5-gallon bucket of water and a cool pump attached to a hose and shower head.
Backfilling around the foundation. Missed taking photos before this step. We added perforated pipe, above the previous drain pipe, and wrapping around the entire foundation. The pipe was surrounded by rock and wrapped in landscaping fabric (to keep sediment out and allow the water to drain through without clogging the pipes).
This was when were were almost done backfilling
Separate day, I didn't get the whole process, but those two protrusions on the right are precast cement piers for our porch. We helped Bill place them, it was pretty tricky.
The floor got poured on the last day of June, and we were officially ready for Unity to arrive with the house!
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