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Homestead Construction #3 – Progress on the Foundation
After a busy week of working on the foundation, it is nice to sit back and look at some pictures. Once the house pad was excavated down to a roughly level pad, some base rock (clean 4″ minus) was put … Continue reading
Homestead Construction #2 – Drainfield Installation
The drainfield for the septic system is now in place. It took three mornings of digging trenches with the backhoe and using pick, shovel and rake to level the trenches. Instead of a pipe on gravel drainfield, we are using … Continue reading
Homestead Construction #1 – Introduction and breaking ground
This series of posts is intended to briefly capture the main phases of construction of the house. The house will be a high mass, passive solar home. A wood-burning stove will be used for cooking and to provide supplemental heat … Continue reading
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