The retaining wall project has been moving along quite fast! Mark has been spending lots of weekday time working on the walls and Ryan helped on Sunday as well.
Prep work completed hereFirst rows going in (these will be covered by dirt). Also drainage going in.Starting to build up the one wallSunday’s progress!
The wall looks so great- I love the pattern! I think we’ve decided to wait on the door install till spring so we can order the correct height door we want/need (78″ instead of the standard 80″). It’s hard to get and wouldn’t come in until cold/snow has arrived. Safer to just wait till spring and get the walls done for now.
Mark picked up 2 more pallets of block today and I hear him out there on the tractor so I’m sure I’ll have more updates soon!
As I mentioned before Mark has been working on some outside projects around here while his tractor is here. The lake front looks amazing with all the clearing he did!
Hello fall 🙂
As you walk up the side of the house you can see the huge pile of dirt we have going…
This will be used for filling in behind retaining walls – and hopefully down by the lake if we get permit approval for that wall next year.
And the excavation by the house is coming along. This will be a big project – we have to build retaining walls on either side, a door for the basement (install that) and also insulate, put in drainage, some footings or something – I don’t know there’s a lot!
While we have the dirt Mark has been putting it up where we’ll split the driveway so it will run down by the side of the house here. Probably where we’ll build something for the boat some day.
This past weekend Ryan finished up the trim on the outside of the sliding doors so they are ready for winter. He also got the baseboard done around the built-in on the right side. Not bad for one day of work. Most weekends will be about 1 day each until his vacation in November when we hope to finish up the office I think (and also probably work on this basement door project).
Some great progress on the house this weekend. Ryan has been working on the built-ins in my office/sewing room (I’m so excited!). The base cabinet pieces are now done.
The bases were done last weekendThis one even has baseboard around itAnd the right one – just needs baseboard.
Note the wires – we had to move the outlet that would have been down below/behind the cabinet. Luckily the wires are long enough that they can just be re-located up in the bookcases that will be on top – we can’t put the boxes in because they will go directly into the bookcase backs so for now – loose wires. (Electricity is off to this room of course).
And while ryan did that his dad worked on our back yard/lake front area with his tractor! It looks amazing. It’s even better today after 2 more days doing cleanup and raking it out.
This was Monday progressCurrent progress
And separately Mark has also been starting the excavation that will allow us to put an entry to the basement on the side of the house. We planned on getting a back hoe but so far this has been working pretty well 🙂
