House Stuff
May. 31st, 2013 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenGardening is poking along, but we did some more clearing this morning, between/in-front-of the two lilac bushes that are to the left of the south end of the barn. We're not trying to clear everything out, but I'm hoping to get most/all of the garlic mustard and stinging nettles out of that spot. Valerian and Jerusalem Artichokes will be going in. The chokes are sprouting in the pots I have them sitting in (with almost no soil!), so they need to go in this weekend. I wanted to put them in today, but I'm thinking I want the soil in the area to rest overnight, and see if anything we missed recovers and pops into view.
This past Wednesday was Day 0 of the basement getting re-done. We got the call from BIL R to clear everything out of the basement, which we did with help from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
loosecanon.
Day 1 - Thursday morning they showed up and removed the floor vapor barrier (heavy plastic), started figuring out how the concrete pours would work, removed the stairs that go up to the first floor, did elevation sitings between the river and the house and decided that a drain would be expensive, so we'll still have a sump. Screw-jacks have been moved to other temporary support spots, old footings dug out.
Day 2 - More work on leveling the floor by R's guys. Plumber is removing older pump. Newer one will be temporarily raised up for the pour, then put back in place.
Probably nothing over the weekend, but I don't know yet. Concrete pours will be sometime next week. One of the windows will need to be opened, to make it simpler to pour. R wants to get the concrete by gravity if at all possible, as pumping costs $700 per use and he's trying to save us money. First pouring will be supports and part of the floor, second pouring will finish the floor. Because of some interesting...features...of the basement, the floor will have two levels. Also, there's a big rock in one corner that they're working on coming up with a best solution for -- it'll be staying as far as I know, because it's in a corner and probably goes under one of the walls of the foundation.
This past Wednesday was Day 0 of the basement getting re-done. We got the call from BIL R to clear everything out of the basement, which we did with help from
loosecanon. Day 1 - Thursday morning they showed up and removed the floor vapor barrier (heavy plastic), started figuring out how the concrete pours would work, removed the stairs that go up to the first floor, did elevation sitings between the river and the house and decided that a drain would be expensive, so we'll still have a sump. Screw-jacks have been moved to other temporary support spots, old footings dug out.
Day 2 - More work on leveling the floor by R's guys. Plumber is removing older pump. Newer one will be temporarily raised up for the pour, then put back in place.
Probably nothing over the weekend, but I don't know yet. Concrete pours will be sometime next week. One of the windows will need to be opened, to make it simpler to pour. R wants to get the concrete by gravity if at all possible, as pumping costs $700 per use and he's trying to save us money. First pouring will be supports and part of the floor, second pouring will finish the floor. Because of some interesting...features...of the basement, the floor will have two levels. Also, there's a big rock in one corner that they're working on coming up with a best solution for -- it'll be staying as far as I know, because it's in a corner and probably goes under one of the walls of the foundation.
