Excavation

This post should have come up a couple days ago, but here it is!

So, the excavation is nearly done, all that remains is to widen the ramp that the house will travel up the hill. Tommy and Mike Lequire are meticulous in their excavation. As you can see in this slideshow, the hill has undergone some serious changes.



After the septic and drain fields passed inspection, Tommy began work on digging the basement. His biggest fear was that he would hit significant amounts of rock and would have to hammer them out with a hydraulic hammer. As I type this I can hear him hammering away on some rocks, but fortunately, there was nowhere near the amount of rock that he had expected.

Since I repositioned the house to angle and face down the driveway that comes up the hill, the dirt wall at the back corner is much higher than I had originally anticipated. That is where Tommy ran into the most rock, but it is all dug out now and ready for the house to be pulled in. The ground is nearly level now and the once the house is set over its final location, I can form up for the footers above the ground.

The biggest concern about digging the footers out was that due to time constraints, we might not be able to get the concrete poured prior to the rain that is expected tomorrow. I had no desire to scoop buckets of mud out of the footers if it decided to rain on us.

Listening to: Iron and Wine "The Boy with a Coin" found at fingertipsmusic.com