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We spent the majority of the week filling the trenches on the inside and outside of the foundation. We were also hit with a record breaking heat wave. The temperature started in the comfortable 90’s and went up from there, staying above 100 for most of the week. Yikes! We started working on the exteriorContinue reading “Entrenched”

We have a helper! BJ, the brother of our friend Nikki, is here to help for the summer. BJ drove up with his RV last week and set up camp. We’re very excited to have another pair of hands, especially for the heavy lifting. To prevent BJ from leaving any time soon, we fenced him in.Continue reading “BJ’s Arrival!”

The excitement continues! Our concrete contractor, Matt, and his crew set up forms and a ton of rebar for the footing. There are rebar reinforcements running lengthwise around the perimeter, plus a ton of hoops (the things shaped like top hats). The lower halves of the hoops will be in the footing. The upper halvesContinue reading “Concrete!”

Over the last two years, we… Chose a building site Installed a temporary electric panel Drilled a well Added several feet of material to the downhill side of the building site Removed material on the uphill side of the building site Staked out the final location for the building Started building a retaining wall RelocatedContinue reading “Getting Up to Speed”

We changed our initial monolythic slab design to a more traditional stem wall and floor design. The footing, stem wall, and floor will be poured in 3 steps. We hired a local contractor for all of the concrete work, including setting up the forms and rebar. We did the prep work ourselves. Sam leveled outContinue reading “Prepping for concrete”