Teamwork
Milly and Carson move crushed rock from the drop pile down to the bottom of the step footings.
Handyman Challenge
Chip’s always ready to help wherever he can.
Water runs uphill
Using the tractor to grab water from Chris and Jacqueline’s to make a footing pad for a basement post that had to be added.
How deep is a hole?
Carson spreads crushed gravel deep in the step-footing trenches.
A pile of trusses up, posts poured and back filled, and some more wall sheathing up. If you look closely you can see the mammoth rock in the path of the right side retaining wall that has been drilled out with rebar epoxied into it (same with the slightly-leaning sonotube pier on the rock). It’s […]
Trying to line up the concrete sonotube piers for the deck. Kind of important to get this as close as possible as they go all the way up and tie into the roof!
Because our timber posts are oversized, ranging from 8×8 to 12×12″, we are using some threaded anchors with j’s plunged into the concrete sonotubes as opposed to premade collars.
One of two retaining walls (the footings are shown here) that will hopefully hold some dirt back and keep some walls straight.
On a solid foundation
The forms are stripped from the footings as the sun sets on another long day.