Mike started digging the hole in the backyard to accommodate the footings and stem walls. He was told to go ahead and dig to about the depth of the bottom of the footings, and then the soil test would be done to determine how much, if any, compacting would need to be done. He dug out LOTS of dirt and it was all hauled away by the city, thankfully, during the spring clean up this month, so we didn't have to pay to have it hauled away.
Well, it was a LOT of compacting.
After he dug out all the dirt for the footings, he had to go two feet further down and one foot wider than the width of the footings and add road base. Dampen, compact. Four inches deep at at time.
That was a lot of road base and a lot of compacting. But he and Larry did it. Doug Gardiner also helped a bit with the digging.
Mike also bricked in the guest room window. It would have been un-usable under the new addition, so it was blocked off and will be re-finished. Another, different window will be added to the north side of the room when the rest of this is finished. That north side of the house is an important access point to all the contstruction going on, so we can't have a big ol' window well there for people, tools and equipment to fall into!
Digging and digging, compacting and compacting. It seemd to never end! And that trench was SO DEEP. Larry was standing at one end and held up his arm and you could barely see the top half of his arm, holding it straight up over his head. Amazing amount of dirt dug out and placed all over my yard, over the tulips. Under the Apple tree, on the lawn. So much dirt!
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