This weekends progress & digging shots..

We were out this long weekend digging. We had to get the top of the crawlspace lowered by about 6 inches to meet code (distance to wood). We're going to encapsulate the crawlspace but the building code doesn't account for that apparently. They also made good progress on the retaining wall for the driveway. Even with the large amount of rain I think we'll be able to finish this part of the project in the next week.

Driveway retaining wall being formed

A view from the road looking at the driveway

What we dug out. The requirement was 18" from the lower wall.

View looking down once complete

Timelapse 2/1 through 2/8

Backfilling 2/5/14

Finally got all the dirt that was piled in the garage area put in its proper place behind all the foundation walls. Needed a long excavator to get to the uphill wall.



Excavator putting dirt in its place!



View from bottom



View from top

Wood Recycling!

So this weekend was about waste removal. We had 5-6k worth of form boards and wood that was used in the construction of the foundation. We got a dumpster up for recycling of the wood. Unfortunately in order to recycle we had to remove all the nails. So this weekend 2 of us went up there and pulled nails out of hundreds of boards and filled up a dumpster for boards to be recycled.

the pile!

almost done with the pile!

at the end of the day.. dumpster mostly full

We still ended up keeping alot of the 2x12's since theres still a ton of work left to do that may require some wood.

Waterproofing 1/29

Waterproofing going in along the perimeter foundation and along the retaining walls.

Construction Timelapse 1/18 through 1/26

Pics from this weekend 1/25 - Drainage work!

This weekend was about the perimeter drain around the foundation. We laid class b permeable drain rock (8 yards worth) as well as all the perimeter french drain & solid pipe. This type of rock has recycled concrete aggregate.

Foundation walls with forms off

Base layer going in

Tools of the trade

Buried french drain on the top

French & solid drain going downhill

view from top corner

another view from the corner

Filling behind main retaining wall