1. A Solid Foundation

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Sent: Monday 23 July 2001


This page duplicates the e-mail I sent out on the 23rd of July 2001 except that I have formatted it for the web and the pictures are now embedded in the text. I also took the liberty of shrinking the pictures (they used to be so large you needed a horizontal scroll; more trouble than it's worth).

The crudity of these pictures is explained by the fact that I took them on a very cheap camera and then scanned them in. The camera was so cheap it was _almost_ a disposable. Later on it did break, so maybe it was disposable after all.


Here are some pictures of the house I am working on (actually thus far others have done the work but hopefully this will change soon).

The first picture is right after the foundation footers were poured.
footers

The second picture is of the well being drilled (water was found at slightly over 200 feet/60 meters; the well was continued to 255 feet).
well

The third picture is of the foundation stemwall forms.
stemwall forms

The cement trucks arrived eight minutes after I took this picture, and the pictures of _that_ are on the roll of film that is still in my camera. The foundation is curing as we speak and backfilling will hopefully occur this coming Sunday.

Steve


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