Day 15 - Walls!

No rain today or last night, so there was a lot progress today! They started with the walls this morning and made a lot of headway. The huge piles of blocks started turning into real walls.


Here is the view from the cherry stump. After tomorrow I am going to put together a series of all of the photos I took from this spot.

Here you can see the area of the window well in the basement bedroom. It is the hole that is starting to develop in the wall. This will hold a large egress window required by DC building code (and most other parts of the country as well as I understand).

A lot of blocks still remain, but the pile is certainly getting smaller.

Here is a view down the ramp. they left a hole big enough to drive the bobcat through. I'm not sure of all of the different things that they still need that thing for, but it is a really useful thing to have around.

Here is a view of the window well that will be in the bedroom.

Sorry about the sideways photo. This free blogging software is far from perfect for images - for some reason they are not inclined to make it easy to store a lot of huge files on their free service.

This will be the stairwell up from the basement. There is a huge cement casing at the far end of the photo. I am not sure what that is for, but the more cement, the better - right?

A view down into the pit from the side. You can see the gap for the bobcat and the opening for the bedroom window.



Here is a view of that huge cement casing. I imagine it is there to ensure that the stairwell doesn't cave in - a problem that the old retaining wall suffered from, so I'm glad it is there.

Not too much room for doing the water proofing.

The wall ties into the existing foundation in a pretty simple way.