Saturday, April 21, 2007

Front Porch Excavation


The concrete guys will be back on Monday to pour the footings for the front and back porches (the deck footings are already done). They'll also be pouring concrete pads for all three stairways. You pour pads when you need something other than dirt on which to terminate the bottom of your stairs, unless you want your bottom steps to rot off. One of our early lessons in home ownership: earth-to-wood contact equals trouble.

We're not quite finished with the excavating. We need to run plumbing and electrical out to the garage, so we'll be trenching for that as early as next week.

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