Coming and Going

The lumber delivery from ADMoyer had to wait until the the Rahns concrete truck left to get into the driveway and unload. It was a cold and windy day that didn't even get out of the 30's, but it was sunny and a lot of work got done. John, Dan and the 2 Steves poured a 3" slab of concrete (that's one more inch than the code requires) over the black plastic moisture barrier which covers the thick layer of stone.


When that was done, Dan slathered water-proofing tar over the outside of the block wall.


Then they laid the french drain and back-filled the whole foundation with stone. It's just a concrete rectangle now, but soon there will be a whole building here!


I etched the date and our initials into the wet redi-mix.


Meanwhile, Stevie and his dad continued to load up the debris from the side porch demolition.


I had meetings with several people this morning. Jason, the Comcast technician, connected us to internet service.

Then Paul from Garber's Well Drilling came to assess the old well. He said in no uncertain terms that the hand-dug well should be filled in and covered. John will start to deposit chunks of concrete and stone in there. He told me from the beginning that he needed a hole to bury the cement from the stairs and sidewalks, so this is a perfect, accessible location for that. While Paul was there, he collected water samples from the only running faucet in the house, the upstairs tub. I also discussed the layout of the domestic water supply from the well. He said the expansion tank should definitely be in the basement, and a pipe to the barn and the electric feed to the pump can be laid in the same trench. He's going to submit a bid for that work, minus the trenching, which John said Steve can do with his equipment. Paul suggested replacing the water pump at the same time as long as everything's going to be dug up, so he'll include that as an option in the bid.

Leisure Equipment delivered the ATV that they serviced. I think from now on we'll service them ourselves. All they did was replace a battery and sparkplug and change the fluids and filters, and they had it for over a month. We could do that in an hour for about one-third the price.

After all the meetings, I split another 5 wagons full of wood. Here's how the woodshed looks now.