May 23, 2015

The guys were here working today (on a Saturday). I think it's starting to become clear to all of us just how much more work there is to do here. We had a set back with the ramp going into the barn. The previous ramp (which went down to the basement of the barn) had been filled with sand many years ago. The ground water mixed with the sand and basically created quicksand. Matt had to arrange for loads of rock to be brought in to displace all the quicksand before he could build a ramp on top of it. But, the fix was successful and we're moving on. They should be able to pour cement next week in the floor of the corridor/laundry/utility room. Then they'll finish the walls and plumbing and electrical. After that it's on to the kitchen phase of the project which might be the most extensive of all of this - certainly the most detailed.

This is where the garden door will be that leads to the back yard.

I'm standing at the entrance to the barn looking toward the house. Where you see the big sheet of plywood is roughly where the hallway ends that will take you into the kitchen sitting area.

Bentley surveying the workmanship of the new concrete wall.

The door on the left goes into our TV room. That's why we have to go outside on the deck to get into the TV room (through the patio doors in that room). The garden door on the right will be removed and a wall will go there.

This is all the heating and domestic hot water lines that will run through a channel under the floor. They connect the barn heating and water system to the furnace and water pipes in the house basement.

Bentley checking that the gravel has been "tamped" sufficiently to prep it for the concrete.

One ramp wall up (on the right) and the form for the second one is built - just waiting for the concrete to fill it.