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| Installed 6 mil vapour barrier in the crawlspace, graded down to the sump. |
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| Covered the vapour barrier with 4 inches of sand. |
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| Compacted the sand with a Red River jig. |
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| Pressure treated plate bolted to the top of the wall, ready to receive floor joists. |
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| Pressure treated plate bolted to the footing, ready to receive walls. |
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| Saturday, September 17 in the afternoon: With the bracing removed from the concrete forms, it's now time to complete the crawlspace with fill and vapour barrier. |
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| Started filling with sand and noticed the sump is already full of water: the weeping tile outside of the foundation is doing its job. |
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| Sloped grade to the sump. Now when it rains a pump will be required to keep the crawlspace from flooding. |
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| To prevent flooding, trenched an overflow pipe running from the sump for 60 feet down hill towards the lake. |
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| The overflow pipe connects to the weeping tile at the base of the footing. |
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| The last 30 feet of the overflow pipe runs into the bush and is made of perforated pipe allowing water to leach into the ground. |
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| Socked weeping tile being covered in stone. ICF walls are waterproofed from top to bottom and over the footing to divert water to the weeping tile. |
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| Weeping tile covered with stone. |
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| Footing and weeping tile partially back filled and covered with 4 feet of R15 rigid insulation sloped away from the wall. |
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| This is the area below the screen porch covered with the R15 frost shield. Partially back filled on left side. |
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| Interior bracing removed and piled. 4 inch pipe roughed in to carry flow from weeping tile to the sump. Tile enters below footing in four places, once under each wall. |
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| Area under the frost shield prepared by back filling to the top of the footing and the top of the pads on which the piers sit. This is the area under the deck between the main cottage and the guest cottage. Eventually, the entire excavated area will be covered with the frost shield which will be covered with fill to the top of the piers. |
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| Waterproofing and frost shield of main cottage completed. |
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| Building site was visited by either a bear or the building inspector. |
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| Top of ICF's trowled and still wet. Walls will be attached using the bolts extending from the concrete. |
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| 36 inch footing extends beyond the wall, inside and out. The ICF wall is 4 feet high. |
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| This pile on pad will hold up the deck and the roof over the deck. It will be fully buried. |
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| Growing back quickly, the forest is trying to sneak in. |
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| Our red pine logs cut last winter and sawn to size in August. |
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| Maureen shopping for the wood for the screen porch and decking. |
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| Zack's saw. |
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| Zack at a pile of white oak. |
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| Sample timber showing the rough sawn finish of our rafters. |
