Wood and Stone

A site to track our progress as we build our FirstDay Cottage Canadian house kit. Come on in, get a cup of coffee, set a spell and follow along on our journey or join in if you like. Check back for the weekly update (usually by Wednesday when things are going right) to see what we are currently up to!

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Clean bill of mental health

I may not actually have a clean bill of mental health, but I do feel much better now. After talking to the foundation contractor and the architect yesterday, they both told me that the footings for this house are way over built and that even if the posts stand on the edge of the footing, they are OK.

We also met the foundation contractor today to go over one of the side effects of the footing move - where the tub should be in the basement is impossible. We would need to move it out 2-4 inches. into the room to make it work. He agreed to cut out some of the footing in the location so that we can at least get in to work on it later.

The water service sleeve was left out as they have a concrete drill to put the hole right where we need it instead of guessing, we just hadn't heard that yet. Now that we have these things worked out, we need to wait for the footing to be cut that so we can finish up our plumbing.

We tried to get some of this done in the rain that was falling at the site, but in the meantime, we will get started on the radiant heat tomorrow night, assuming it isn't raining.

Sean, chilling beneath the front door

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