Started digging, stopped digging. Water problems.

[jbaker]

Re: Started digging, stopped digging. Water problems.

Why do they want the oven so far from the house?

The owner wants to create another living area in the yard. He has plans for a pergola in the general area also, possibly gardens. I understand how he's imagining it, but I too think it's a mistake to put it so far away. It will limit the use of it after the initial newness wears off.

Maybe the water situation is actually a good thing. Gives us time to rethink.

[jbaker]

My death has been greatly exaggerated...

Though I've not been heard from for over a year that doesn't mean I went away. Here's a shot from this weekend. This thing may actually get completed within the next twenty years or so.

[Ken524]

Re: Started digging, stopped digging. Water problems.

Looks good! How did you decide to do the foundation?

[jbaker]

Re: Started digging, stopped digging. Water problems.

We dug deep....about 22". Filled with trap (?) rock, compacted. Drainage pipe in at about 12" down or so. Rock came up to about ground level.






Then the pour....this was last year, in the fall.

[jbaker]

Re: Started digging, stopped digging. Water problems.

Seems we're limited to 4 images per post? Here's the fifth:




The slab made it through the winter. I was able to lay the cement blocks without having to do any leveling. Either I placed the form correctly last year, or the gods were kind to me and made the needed adjustments over the past 6 months.

[Neil2]

Re: Started digging, stopped digging. Water problems.

You don't need the sonotuble below the visible part. Unless the hole is caving in on you, just can just fill it directly with concrete.

[jbaker]

Re: Started digging, stopped digging. Water problems.

You don't need the sonotuble below the visible part. Unless the hole is caving in on you, just can just fill it directly with concrete.

Are you in the right thread sir? I'm not sure if we were asking / talking / mesmerizing about sonotubles......

But of course you are welcome here. We all are. 'Cuz we're cool like that.

[jbaker]

Minor Progress over last weekend

Some of the platform pour floor is in, steel just laid over the top to see if we have enough. Still deciding if we'll be pouring a ledge over the front etc before the outside form gets built. Bricks stacked in front to get the visual.