Grace, Paige and Hannah actually did most of the work this week since I was working some pretty long days. Last Saturday I brushed a sealant on to the foundation where it will be below grade. (That's the black stuff that you see on the foundation.)
Over the course of the week, Grace picked up several utility trailer loads of gravel, some PVC pipe and some landscape fabric. Then she laid down the fabric, threw a couple of inches of drain rock beside the footing, laid out the pipe, covered it with several more inches of rock and then folded the fabric back over her creation. This is to whisk water away from our foundation and into a small french drain that I have yet to dig. (Actually, now that I think about it I'm going to get Jesse to do it...) I helped shovel in the gravel - it's pretty sweaty work. You can see the (almost) end result in the picture below - the fabric isn't folded back over yet.
I know you wouldn't think that Grace did this - if only because she doesn't show up in the pictures. There seems to be a fairly stringently enforced rule about not taking pictures of Grace while she's working on the house. I'm going to try to bend that rule more in the future
There's Norman in his typical supervisory capacity...
We hope to take siding off the house tomorrow; as well as finish up a few foundation details. (We have to backfill yet...)
Tomorrow we are getting a bunch of lumber and hardware delivered. We're not quite ready for it but we don't want to have to wait once we are.
2 comments:
"Hey, way to go!"; "Looks real good!"; or "You guys are sure working hard!"
Thanks! (you're my favorite; don't tell the other kids though...)
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