Our drywell project is completed! We sweated it out on one of the hottest days of the summer to finish it. I’ll keep the narrative brief, with photos: Below: Filling with rocks. We elimated our “rock pile” with this project. Our rock pile was a collection of various rocks, bricks, broken asphalt, and broken cinder [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 23, 2007
Today we progressed more on our drywell project. The hardest of the project is behind us! Last week, I bought a very large plastic garbage barrel (I could not find a regular rain barrel) and drilled a 4-inch hole in the bottom side. The kids laid about a foot’s depth of rocks at the bottom [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 26, 2007
We are digging a hole outside the house, in an inside corner where two exterior walls meet. The corner is a juncture where two very steep gable roofs meet. During a rainfall, thousands of gallons of water come rushing down the roof right into this inside corner. My old stone foundation can’t handle it anymore, [...]
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
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