Help-With.com - House Construction Progress

2-1-06	We have a "Real" address: 332 Driftwood Point, Pell City, AL 35128. Check out the "Directions" Page for how to get to out home as well as other location/map type information. Well drilling is now complete: 105 feet of casing results in 65' of water in well with greater than 15 GPM inflow. Waterproofing of walls starts. Finally the weather starts to cooperate and the rain slackens.

2-7-06	Not only do we have a new temporary power pole but we have a new power meter. Meter reading starting at "00000" - just watch this baby spin when Christmas lighting time comes. The submersible pump has been installed. The well 105 feet deep and has 65+ feet of water standing in the casing. Water is started to pump and flush the collected mud with Rita and Harry observing. After a few hours it is obviously MUCH cleaner, and after three hours, almost clean enough to drink and very cold. Pumping at more than 30 gallons per minute has no effect. Creates our very own delta formation at the river's edge. Yesterday we had over four inches of rain in 24 hours! John O. - our contractor asks Rita to please STOP praying for good weather.

2-9-06	We have "French Drains" - We prefer to call them "Continental Drains" since we are boycotting everything French. These drains will keep our basement dry and toasty in wet times of the year. Now we need fill dirt to cover them and fill the garage forming. Also, we have found the stone Pattern/Style we want for the center part of the front of the house, see last 3 photos. Except, we do not want any brown stones, like the one in the lower right of the third photo. This stone is on "Our Lady of the Lake" Catholic Church here in Pell City. Met with John O. To select final windows and exterior doors order. Changed height of the "His" vanity to be +4 inches. Saw tiled countertops at John O's Sisters house and much liked them.

2-10-06	Some fill dirt arrives at the lot. To be used for fill in the front of the house.

2-13-06	Fill dirt has been placed into basement crawl space, filling it about half way. Block laying for basement walls is underway. Pic3 is lower level and others are upper level. They used water from our well for mortar-mix. Rita gives advice to foreman of block crew.

2-15-06	Photos of the inside of garage shell with garage floor supports in place. Walls of basement are completed. Entryway for water to access into crawl space from well. Truck dumping fill dirt. and workers tamping down the garage fill dirt. Last three photos are of a catfish skeleton found on our lakeshore. I could not spread my hand wide enough to grasp the head. See dollar bill for scale. Estimated the fish to have been about 40 inches long and weigh 30-40 pounds. See? They are there for the future!


2-16-06	John O. supervises the filling of the garage area with fill dirt and getting it tamped down so that cement can be poured over the entire floor area.

2-20-06	Garage is filled with dirt and gravel laid in preparation for the cement floor. Water proofing is completed. Photos of "crawl" space and lower floor level. Let's not forget the view from the upper level wall. Extra blocks are buried in crawl space.

2-26-06	Garage floor is still waiting for cement, it's raining soooo much. They finally laid the block for the porch/entryway supports.

2-27-06	The main floor dryer vent is installed under floor of storage space.

2-28-06	We get to the lot a bit late and the floor on the lower level has been poured already. The cement was pumped with a pumper truck that was still onsite. A corner in the garage was not completed. The last cement truck arrived and the pouring of that last corner proceeds. Later in the day, after it has dried a bit, we put the finishing touches in the corner of the garage. On the way to the lot, we pick up a huge (1 foot across) turtle from the road, and set him/her down at the lakeside. He finally comes out of the shell and makes his break into the lake - only footprints remain.

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