Day 2 with the crew and apprentices was another success. Our town inspector came at 9am (we passed!) and the cement truck came around 10am to dump 14.5 cubic yards into our bond beam form, buttress forms, and the footer. We also did some pack-out with the leftover cement. After lunch (my mom served us baked ziti, caesar salad, watermelon, italian bread and butter, and brownies), a couple groups worked on finishing the tires in our wing walls, while another group chipped away and dug out the rest of our greywater planter cell. The crew and more apprentices started bolting in the wooden forms that will hold the glass between our greenhouse and interior space. And a very exciting part... Mike set up our doorway!
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| This beam will be a pillar in the house. |
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| Footer being poured by the cement truck |
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| Pouring into the can wall to create the bond beam |
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| Chad evening out the wet cement in the bond beam |
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| Phil teaching us how to place the anchor bolts into the still-wet cement |
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| Extra cement used for pack-out |
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| All hands on deck for pack-out |
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| Cisterns almost completely burried |
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| Momma about to serve lunch |
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| Group working on wing wall |
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| Beau preparing the short tire wall for the vaulted entryway |
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| Chad using the cistern water (which is now flowing into the house!) to fill buckets for the cement station |
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| Justin and Brian at the carpentry station |
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| Mike and apprentice Torbin preparing our main doorway |
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| Pack-out |
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| Men in the trench! |
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| Michael and our beautiful doorway! |
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| Beau at the fasteners station (screws, nails, etc) |
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| happy tire wall : ) |
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| preparing to line the greywater trench |
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| cistern water flowing into the house |
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| Justin and Phil studying the plans |
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| Jacob's working on our vaulted entryway |
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| prepping our footer for the wooden framed wall |
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| Gary and the kubota |
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| Doug smoothing cement |
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| Happy Beau |
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| barn loft view |
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| LOTS o' cement! |
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| rocks for the bottom of the greywater planter |
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| I don't know what these are for right now... |
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| hard work in the trench! |
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| starting to pack-out the stem wall |
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| The boss overlooking progress |
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| so much going on! |
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| pillars in greenhouse hand-peeled and sprayed with a bleach solution to keep from greying |
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| Gary and the kubota |
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| parking up the driveway |
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| Beer:30... our 4:30 drink with everyone to mark the end of the workday |
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| Tiffany and my mom |
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