5-2-07: In order to make our basement lighter, and safer (in case of emergency), and to try and correct the drainage issues we've had with this house, we decided to put large windows in the playroom, the room right under the living room. On Wednesday, Mellissa came over and helped us remove all the bedding plants, then our friends, the Huntingtons, brought over their excavator to dig out where the windows would go. The first picture shows Guy, Marcus and Sheridan down in the trench. The next day, the concrete cutter spent longer than we thought he should, to cut out the two 4' x 4' holes in the concrete foundation, and the window well installer used this big crane (picture 2) to get the massive things into place. The last picture shows the window wells in place, but without the backfill, or windows--they came on Friday. On Saturday, Guy backfilled, and we got the bedding plants back in the ground. It was cold and rainy all the days we were trying to get this done, and now this week it is hot and dry. I hope the plants survive. I will admit that this whole project (which isn't done, of course) had me rather nervous, especially with excavators and cranes driving across my front yard, but I think that Guy actually really enjoyed himself (he took work off and was directing all the maddness). There is certainly a sense of accomplishment that we've gotten this far.
5-2-07: In order to make our basement lighter, and safer (in case of emergency), and to try and correct the drainage issues we've had with this house, we decided to put large windows in the playroom, the room right under the living room. On Wednesday, Mellissa came over and helped us remove all the bedding plants, then our friends, the Huntingtons, brought over their excavator to dig out where the windows would go. The first picture shows Guy, Marcus and Sheridan down in the trench. The next day, the concrete cutter spent longer than we thought he should, to cut out the two 4' x 4' holes in the concrete foundation, and the window well installer used this big crane (picture 2) to get the massive things into place. The last picture shows the window wells in place, but without the backfill, or windows--they came on Friday. On Saturday, Guy backfilled, and we got the bedding plants back in the ground. It was cold and rainy all the days we were trying to get this done, and now this week it is hot and dry. I hope the plants survive. I will admit that this whole project (which isn't done, of course) had me rather nervous, especially with excavators and cranes driving across my front yard, but I think that Guy actually really enjoyed himself (he took work off and was directing all the maddness). There is certainly a sense of accomplishment that we've gotten this far.
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Wow!! What a project! Sounds like it will be wonderful when it is all done!
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