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dropped Bill off at the lot, and I went to help at soccer registration.
When I returned to lot, I found that he had started digging the foundation.
He used the lines we had errected to find the edges of the house while
we were planning as his guide.
This was my first indecation that we were finished interviewing builders and were going to build the house ourselves. The trench is hip deep and knee high. |
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the second and third legs of the foundation trench.
Bill swung the pick ax and removed the largest rocks. I shoveled the rocks and soil he had loosened and filled the wheel barrow. Eric helped remove the rocks from the trench. |
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Bill
then wheeled the debris down our drive.
This is just some of it on the driveway heading toward the street. |
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Eric, almost 10 years old. We used 2x4 boards to float over the trench and make the key to which we would later bolt the upper foundation forms. The foundation footing is reinforced with rebar tied with wire. |
| After the first concrete
pour and the removal of forms.
We learned that when you order two trucks worth of concrete you should tell the dispatcher to send them an hour or two apart. It was increadibly exhausting work. The drivers of the two trucks took pitty on us, and helped. |
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Detail of where we
stopped the pour. Large rebar left exposed to tie it to next section.
We did not dig or pour a section of the front of the house. The cement truck was able to get into the house and pour the using his chute. This meant that we did not have to hire a pump truck in addition to the cement truck. |
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