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Land and Site Prep

17 photos · Jul 2022 to Aug 2022

01 · Land and Site PrepThe mini excavator arrives, first cuts into the slope.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepRaw cut earth where the pad is being carved out.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepThe valley under grey cloud from the uncut grass.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepGrading the building pad, tracks in fresh soil.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepPallets of block and bagged material staged on site.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepA pile of reclaimed brick and stone dropped on site.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepThe new access road cut across the slope.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepThe car parked on the fresh dirt drive.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepLooking up the dirt drive to the main house.Jul 202201 · Land and Site PrepA block wall going in, buckets and wheelbarrow on the gravel.Aug 202201 · Land and Site PrepBatter boards and string lines set on the leveled pad.Aug 202201 · Land and Site PrepExcavator on the access road below the main house.Aug 202201 · Land and Site PrepStanding in the staked footprint, tractor with the box blade.Aug 202201 · Land and Site PrepRaking the graded pad flat.Aug 202201 · Land and Site PrepSite cleared and the building footprint staked out, sod cutter opening the new access path.Aug 202201 · Land and Site PrepThe footprint sprayed out on the graded pad.Aug 202201 · Land and Site PrepThe leveled pad from above, forms going in.Aug 2022

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Foundation

31 photos · Aug 2022

02 · FoundationVapour barrier laid over the gravel base inside the forms.Aug 202202 · FoundationPoly over the slab area, working the perimeter.Aug 202202 · FoundationTying the rebar grid inside the forms.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe full rebar mat tied across the slab.Aug 202202 · FoundationRebar mat with bags of mix stacked all around.Aug 202202 · FoundationClose on the rebar mat, more mix staged.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe crew mixing concrete by hand, bag after bag.Aug 202202 · FoundationAround the mixer, feeding it bags.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe mountain of mix bags beside the mixer.Aug 202202 · FoundationMixer set over the forms, crew ready to pour.Aug 202202 · FoundationPlacing concrete into the slab forms.Aug 202202 · FoundationWorking the mixer over the rebar.Aug 202202 · FoundationPouring off the mixer into the forms.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe rebar mat in the forms, mixer and bagged concrete staged.Aug 202202 · FoundationWide shot of the pour under grey sky.Aug 202202 · FoundationPlacing concrete from the edge of the forms.Aug 202202 · FoundationScreeding the wet slab.Aug 202202 · FoundationFloating the wet slab flat.Aug 202202 · FoundationTroweling the slab edge smooth.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe freshly troweled slab in its forms.Aug 202202 · FoundationFloating the surface, mixer still running.Aug 202202 · FoundationFinishing the slab surface.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe finished slab, smooth and still formed.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe cured slab, forms on, tidying up.Aug 202202 · FoundationSlab and forms, buckets and tools.Aug 202202 · FoundationEdging the slab.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe finished slab with a chalk line snapped across it.Aug 202202 · FoundationForms starting to come off the slab.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe thickened slab edge, aggregate showing.Aug 202202 · FoundationLow panorama across the finished slab.Aug 202202 · FoundationThe slab poured and curing in its forms.Aug 2022

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every section but Misc, in one image