Monthly Archives: April 2018

Thursday, April 5, 2018

By Nina Macdonald | April 6, 2018

Still no caissons.  They dug out the area up top right behind the garage, where our 10,000 gallon water bladder will go. We are getting it from http://tufftechbags.com/largertanks.htm. 

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

By Nina Macdonald | April 5, 2018

I was confused about what they were doing on Wednesday.  They were digging out the foundation for the garage before they dig the caissons.  So just some work with the backhoe. The blueish cement you can see in the picture is the old garage floor, which has a blue epoxy coating on it. The new […]

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Tuesday, April 3rd

By Nina Macdonald | April 4, 2018

The surveyors came yesterday and planted flags for all the caissons for the house and garage foundations.  Some for the garage were right in the middle of two oak trees.  We met with the contractor this morning and he called the structural engineer to talk over how to change the underpinnings so we wouldn’t destroy […]

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