Yes, We've Finally StartedAfter getting our building permit approved and picking it up from the township on October 30th, we finally began the real work on our addition just before Thanksgiving.
The Tuckfield-Team-Plus-Ben spent a beautiful warm Sunday afternoon disassembling the sunporch on the back of our house so we could begin constructing the foundation for the addition. The sunporch enclosure was mostly made of aluminum, so pretty much everything got taken apart and carefully folded so it could be stuffed into the back of the van for scrap - even the roof! And before anyone asks: no, Ben didn't go to Hillsdale College...but Grandpa and Grandma Turner used to live near Hillsdale and they got Ben his favorite working sweatshirt. He calls it his "inside out sweatshirt" because the smooth part is on the inside and the fuzzy part is on the outside. |
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After taking the sunporch apart, Aaron laid out the stakes at the outside corners of the addition site and it was a group project to run the strings from the floor level of the current house to the stakes so we could determine the full depth of the crawlspace excavation. It looks like we're going to have to dig down about 18 inches for the whole crawlspace area besides trenching the footings 48 inches below ground level. After prepping the yard, that's going to be the next task.
My job in all of this was to make hot chocolate and soup for lunch. I'm not used to sitting on the sidelines while people are working, especially when the work is being done on our house. My solution was to find a project inside and work on that - hanging Grandma's painting and piano awards over her piano, which has been something I've been meaning to do for at least six months. It was good to get it done...now that we're about to start construction on the room where Grandma's piano is moving to! Oh well. It'll look good in the meantime.
So. Next up: foundation work!
My job in all of this was to make hot chocolate and soup for lunch. I'm not used to sitting on the sidelines while people are working, especially when the work is being done on our house. My solution was to find a project inside and work on that - hanging Grandma's painting and piano awards over her piano, which has been something I've been meaning to do for at least six months. It was good to get it done...now that we're about to start construction on the room where Grandma's piano is moving to! Oh well. It'll look good in the meantime.
So. Next up: foundation work!