Up Hill House - page 21 of 23

  • 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

    Plans submitted for permit
    Plans submitted for permit
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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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