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February 03, 2006
Digging to China
Well, not literally, but I'm sure that Dana thought that that was what I'd asked him to do. Last Sunday, in the midst of an horrible flu, Dana broke three holes in the basement floor and Trent dug them out, all so that we can pour footings for the new beam. We're hoping to pour the concrete tomorrow afternoon, and will likely be putting the new beam in place the following weekend.
We discovered that the trees' infiltration of the space underneath the basement slab is rather more significant than we'd anticipated. On the left hand side of the following photo is a barely visible tree root, which, while it seems a bit bigger than most, doesn't appear to be all that big . . . until you realize that its diameter is larger than that of my wrist. Yikes!
The slab's in pretty rough shape in places, so the holes aren't all that pretty. But, aesthetics are secondary to structural integrity, particularly considering that we'll (eventually) be putting a raised subfloor throughout the basement. On the plus side, when it comes time to dig the holes for the sump pumps, the only place that'll likely be at all difficult will be the hole that we need the least :-)
Posted by plainstext at February 3, 2006 10:55 PM
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