We'll let the photos speak for themselves for the most. Today was a dig...er big day.
Freddie, good guy that he is, showed up on Saturday morning to dig a big hole for our foundation.
He said that the soil was great -- very gravely, good for drainage. Hopefully that means that we'll have a very dry basement.
It took him about 8 hours to get this hole, plus a couple others dug. In the process, he also pulled out a bunch of trees that were too close to the house.
To take this picture we climbed on top of the 20 foot high pile of dirt next to the 10' foundation hole.
And this is obviously taken inside the foundation hole...It will be interesting to see what Mark decides to do about the original foundation. As the dirt was being moved away from it, it became clear that the rocks that are the foundation are not actually bonded together with mortar (except for on the inside of the foundation). Freddie left a decent amount of dirt next to the foundation so that it wouldn't collapse.
Once Mark figures out how to support the house, if the back foundation wall collapses, Freddie will be back to finish digging the hole. In the meantime, we will have the place fumigated for termites and other pests that will want to eat our house. In the next blog, you'll see photos of the basement, where Leigh and I spent the day shoveling coal.
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