Once the foundations were in and the drilling completed, Bill filled the insides with sand and topped it all off with gravel. This allowed for backfilling the outsides of the foundations and below grade walls. As some of the piles of earth where ‘put back,’ the shape of the landscape began to re-emerge. And the insides were ready for the next stage: laying the under-floor plumbing and drainage pipes.
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- good day for working
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- shovelling in around footers
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- tamping down
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- protecting the walls
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- drain tile
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- taking shape
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- adding gravel
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- back footers too
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- shaping outside cottage
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- filling inside
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- by hand too
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- root cellar more protected
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- can you imagine?
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- livable soon!
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- heading home after good day’s work
This work was done on September 1st and I’ve only now been able to post. Before doing all this Bill helped his wife milk cows before dawn.