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Friday, May 30, 2014

Other landfill goodies

Posted on 7:45 PM by cristile



Standing atop our spoils

The landfill also provided us with a large amount of river rock which will be used in our rubble trench foundation. However, we still need to order a couple yards of gravel for the whole site.
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Urbanite

Posted on 7:38 PM by cristile



We were able to scrounge up some urbanite from the landfill to use for our stem wall. We will be adding to this pile over the next few weeks.
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Leveling and digging foundation

Posted on 7:34 PM by cristile



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Test Brick

Posted on 7:28 PM by cristile

Our test brick came out nicely. We will have to save this one for decorating the house.
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Site chosen, ready to dig!

Posted on 7:25 PM by cristile


Now that we chose where our cottage would be, we began the long journey of excavating the site by hand.
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