This week is mostly filling the gaps between foundations, water proofing the foundations, placing footing drains and back filling with gravel and dirt. We have too much dirt and luckily a friend/client for whom Steve was building an addition needed the dirt. It was great, he just moved it from one project to another. The front of the house looks much cleaner now without the high piles.
Confession: As I stood in the dining room looking out on the completed foundation I suddenly realized that I had made a moronic design error. I looked down on the new crawl space over which we are expanding the dining room and realized that I could have created a corridor to connect the new basement to the existing basement. It is hard to describe here without looking at the plan but it was a very belated AHA moment that even my husband and contractor could not believe we did not think of it. The original plans had the basements connected but when we revised them to scale down the project that connection was lost. Our house was built in the late sixties and has only a partial full basement with a lot more crawl spaces. The addition is adjacent to the garage and a crawl space so the connection was not obvious. It should have been but sometimes when working on something for so long one becomes blind and loose fresh insight. Steve was as bugged about it as I was and we stood there discussing what it may take to make it happen. The amount of money and work it would require was prohibitive. It would set us back weeks. So I had to forgive myself and move on.
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