Then they sprayed on a rubberized moisture barrier onto the outside of the basement walls that will end up being below ground. That's to keep any moisture from getting into the basement. The guys doing it had to wear suits and masks to keep the stuff off of them because Scott says that once it gets on it just has to 'wear' off.
The black stuff is the sprayed-on rubberized water barrier. This first "row" of it is sprayed just above what will be ground level later. According to Scott, the rubber-like stuff will not come off if you get it on you so the guys doing the spraying wear suits and masks.
The above picture is along the left side of the house. They put these yellow pads onto the house up to just above ground level on both sides that will eventually have dirt against the basement walls above the bottom of the garage floor footer level. The pads protect the rubberized sealant against being cut or having a hole put in it by a rock or something when the dirt is put back in against the walls. It sticks to the black stuff since it is very sticky until it dries.
Note the yellow pads stacked up to the right of the guy spraying. Later he'll put them on the wall.
Then while the barrier was still sticky they attached these yellow pads that were about 3/4" to an inch thick. They are there so that when the dirt is backfilled (put up against the walls again) there won't be any rocks or anything that can hit the rubberized barrier and poke a hole in it or cut it. That would allow water to get up against the concrete wall if it did.
Later they will put in a trough along the bottom of the walls so that pipes with holes in them. They will have a cloth-like covering to allow water to enter the pipes but to prevent dirt from going into the holes so that the pipes don't get clogged up. The pipes will funnel any water that comes down through the dirt against the basement walls to drains leading down the hill away from the house. One pipe will go from the left side of the house down the hill. Then drains from the front of the house and from the retaining wall area will go under the driveway and then down the hill on the right side of the house. Thus, any underground water is routed away from the house.
Our road turns off the road from which the view below is seen and it goes toward this valley. Our house also looks south toward this valley. Right now the trees on our property are between our house and the valley view. We may cut some later to get a clearer view, but for now we're going to leave the trees at least till we live through 4 seasons up there so we can see whether we want to cut them or not. After all, the view is good, but we also like trees!
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The basement walls, etc are at:
Pictures of a neighbor's bull are at:
Pictures of a neighbor's view:
Pictures of the view from the road that runs through the bottom of our land:
2 comments:
This blog is really a nice way to document everything. I'm really enjoying it. Thanks very much Rob. You may convert me into a blogger some day ;-). Tom
At the bottom of your blog page, I clicked on 'comments' and got this little box to type in. As I recall, when I've tried before I cuoldn't get anything that looked useful so I just backed out.
This gives me 3 choices for Identity purposes: Google/Blogger; Other/ Anonymous. I'm goint to sign my Google username and password and hope for the best.
Barbara
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