Thursday, October 28, 2010

Finished foundation


Today we arrived at Cattail to see the finished foundation! How exciting to come around the final curve and see exactly where the new house will be! Did I take a picture of it? Uh, apparently not. Lots of pictures, but none to show you where the house sits on the lot. Tomorrow when we go back out there, we'll go up the hill across the road and take a photo to show the whole shebang. Today, we focused on a few details.




Notice how when they dug for the sonotubes that will support the edge of the deck, the earth and rocks were placed on the creek side of the ditch. This will really act as a buttress in case of high water. Here's both an upstream and downstream view showing the reinforced creek bank.





Another thing we noticed is that there's a huge pile of dirt and rocks at the downstream end of the foundation. All this is available to move up around the foundation once the septic system is complete. So while the foundation is very tall now, it will eventually be back-filled. The house will sit on a knoll above the creek and the road. But the upstream end should be graded fairly level so that we have only a step or two at most to enter the house from that end.





Here's a view across the finished foundation towards the Phillips' house. Notice the cutouts at regular intervals along the top. I'm guessing maybe glass bricks will go there? No, actually Randy says they're blow out vents in case there ever is flooding inside the crawl space. Inside the foundation you can see more sonotubes to support the central part of the house.


















1 comment:

Julia said...

Can't wait to see more pictures and talk to you guys! We are heading to Nederland this morning with Molly.