Up Hill House - page 21 of 23
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Forms off
Fresh new concrete. Lots of clean up to do.
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Concrete poured
Today we finished up the forms and the first truck showed up a little before noon. 3 trucks later we were done. It was a beautiful day to pour concrete. Mid 70’s, nice cool dry breeze.
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Foundation walls in progress
We stripped the footing forms and formed up the foundation walls today. We were on schedule to pour, but a storm arrived at lunch time. Pour tomorrow. Pics in progress.
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Footings!
The foundation guys started on Tuesday. They poured the footings on Wednesday. I took Thursday and Friday off to help with the foundation walls. Here’s a few shots of the progress so far.
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Building Permit... check!
It’s official. We’re building a house!
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Well done.
460 feet. 20-25 gallons per minute. That’s it until we get power to the site (another long story). Then we install the pump. Then we get water.
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Drill baby, drill!
I took Monday off to take Bernie to the vet and hand-deliver our building permit to the county inspection office.
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Gravel for Driveway
They added the top coat of gravel this week. It’s now a smooth drive up to the house site.
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Permit plan set
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Stone culvert progress
As we wait for out building permit, we’ve been busying ourselves with a few small projects. One is building stone walls over the culverts at the road. I thought I could finish the project over the July 4th weekend, but I only got one side finished. Will hopefully have the other side completed next weekend.
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