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Rebuilding The 11 Dollar House™ (continued from Page 2) |
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In the next few weeks, I got the footing set up, and by the beginning of June, we had it poured. |
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There's my Dad, enjoying a late spring day while we wait for the pumper truck and the cement truck to show up. |
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I'd like to say that I had lots of pictures of setting up the foundation, but I think I was too busy. We used Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) for the foundation. They're a bit like giant StyrofoamTM LegoTM blocks. You stack and stagger them, laying in rebar horizontally and vertically every 16 inches or so, and when you're done, you've got a six inch concrete wall poured between a five inch thick polystyrene sandwich. It makes for a pretty cozy basement, and when you're ready to finish it, you can just attach the drywall directly to the forms (no need to do extra framing or putting in a vapour barrier). If you want more information about the forms, go check out the Advantage ICF System website. |
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July 2007 to September 2007 There's not much to show here. I could have a picture of a shovel, I suppose, since other than time spent away on holidays, mostly I was busy moving road crush and pea gravel and other similar materials in the process of backfilling the foundation, along with putting a dimpled membrane on the exterior walls and weeping tile along the footing to ensure a nice, dry basement. Still, there was enough to do before the house movers finally had an opening in their busy schedule to put the house back in place in the first week of September. |
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They had to slide it over a couple feet to the south before dragging it forward, so a little dish soap a well placed hydraulic jack or two later, and VOILA, the house was lined up and ready to be moved to its final location. All it took at the end was a little body English, and kersplat, the house was nice and flat and level for the first time in decades, probably. Year Two started with an addition off the back. To see what happened from September 2007 to September 2008, go to Page 4. Or jump to Page 1, Page 2, Page 5, or Page 6. |
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