Started our dig Monday the 15th. We were 1 week behind due to heavy rains the week before.
Calamity didn't wait long to strike as we hit a natural spring while digging our sun room. By Thursday we had the footer poured in the main basement area but have not poured anything at the sun room location. The water from the spring has made it a muck pit. Still discussing options on what to do but may lose the sun room altogether (will be very disappointing). The condition of the dig all week was very wet and sloppy in the basement. Hopefully it doesn't cause future issues with the footers that were poured but everyone is pretty sure they will be fine. Our neighbors graciously allowed us to trench our gravity drain across a small section of their property to get it dumping into a big ravine. Big plus on that one!
One shiny new electric pole in the distance.
back sun room (swamp) with some useless gravel at the moment.
Garage footer trench into main basement
Garage area.
New electric service installed.
Buddy guarding vehicles.
Me wondering what kind of fish to stock in my new expensive pond.
Footer forms laid up around the garage.
Basement forms going in.
Roman Aqueduct. (Get the idea I hate water now?)
basement footers poured (minus Sun room).
Buddy contemplating a new career path.
Footer drain pipes in place. Need gravel.
Buddy and a porta potty. 2 of my favorite things!
Wow, I'm really sorry to hear about your problems Bill!
ReplyDeleteHas the water gone down at all and are they going to do anything to ensure that water doesn't enter the house? We put extra stone on one side of our house for the French drains because of extra water. Good luck man.