Did You Say Tomorrow?

Sometimes things move very slowly and then other times it is like right now. The contractor that is going to do the masonry work had his next job put on hold so he called the contractor that is going to dig the basement and asked if he could start tomorrow. The reply was that he could adjust his schedule, so if it doesn’t rain earth moving starts tomorrow; Wednesday, June 1, 2011. (By the time you read this the walls should be built and I should be on my way there to do the carpentry work. I will close this time gap soon.)

I was just sent three pictures to get us started, so let’s take a look and get ready for this project.

The first piece of equipment to arrive was a crawler with a bucket on the front. Adam, my nephew’s son yells out, “Hey dad, you want me to dig where?” His dad’s response was, “You don’t anywhere. You just watch.”

The orange lines mark the corners of the basement. On the left side of the picture is where they dug to remove the old foundation and construct the pier. The water you see is not a good sign. That is not surface water, but ground water. The basement floor is another five feet below the water in the hole. I wonder how serious this is going to be. We will know when they bring in the backhoe and start digging.

All the soil from the basement and new site drainage has to go someplace. Jon, my nephew, removed two sections of fence and the shrubs to make way for the truck to back in with the soil to fill in the natural hole found there.