Feb 16, 2011: The Deck Begins

"Hey", you thought, "wasn't this house already done?"

Well yes and no. We had put off adding the deck until later. Now is later. So I'm going to update this blog with pictures as the deck is built.

Forms (boards) and footers (boxes) being prepped for pouring concrete later.

It's not officially a construction project until the porta-john arrives.

When we built the fence, we put in a gate so equipment could get in easily (primarily for bushhogging the back lot, but also for this deck work). Guess where I'll be reseeding in a month?

View of the forms for the deck from West side of the house.

Fritz (right) and Wolfie (left) checking out the deck on the South side of the house. It's a wrap-around about 1/2 up each side (slightly more on the West, slightly less on the South)

Dirt mounded up to fill in and level before the gravel and concrete. Also you can see the Romeo and Juliet balconies we left in anticipation of building the deck later.

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March 21 - Some material delivered

It rained hard and then remained wet for a while so not much happened. Specifically, the wooden supports for the footers were removed. But then it looks a lot like it did before.

Footers near the entrance.

Footer detail.

Some material got delivered, though.

Perhaps the most important piece of construction equipment.

Some forms for the basement walls.

Gravel for the basement floor (concrete to be poured over the gravel)

Random pictures of the land

Since so little was done over the week, we took some random pictures of the land.

Our stream.

A bridge over our stream to our field. That's also our ridge in the back. 6.2 acres is a lot of space.

And here's a pictures of Silver (left) and Fritz (right) in the field across the bridge.

And here's Silver saying hi to Beowulf - a neighbor dog. Lots of dogs in the neighborhood. At least on our street, there's about twice as many dogs as houses.

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