Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Breaking ground: the house!

Step 1: dig holes bellow the frost line and down to the sub soil.

  step one: dig holes

 Step 2: fill holes with sand (well, the non-lazy way is to fill with gravel and tamp it first. But we already had sand and didn't have gravel.)

  Step two: fill holes with sand

 Step 3: drop in urbanite, and level. These pieces are old concrete flooring from Duke University.

  step three: fill with urbanite. Level.