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I wanted to thank everyone who was interested in my house construction. Despite how much I hate blogs this would be the easiest way for me to share the progress. No talk about me standing in line at Target or other stuff no one cares about. Just construction, Good and bad.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Slab demolition and the hole

Reality is really setting in now. I'm about to head to Austin, Texas for work and there is a huge hole in my basement. Jason Dorpinghaus who is a friend and jack of all trades has helped me with the slab demo. He did the work on this one while I was at work stressing about it. We had to cut the trenches to each of the new fixtures and then dig down to the existing sewer line. In the end the hole is about 4' in diameter and 4' - 6" deep. No turning back now!

Before Demo



During demo... a little dusty

A little muscle needed



Sewer line is about 3' - 6" down



Pouring the concrete to fill this in is going to be a little harder than I originally anticipated. I have three friends coming over to help with that next weekend. Hopefully the weather is OK so we can mix the concrete outside. I'm off to Austin first thing in the morning because my flight tonight was canceled. 

3 comments:

  1. holy crap! that's quite a hole!
    Hey, i have a question.. how are are you getting rid of all that demo garbage? :)

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  2. Every time my neighbor goes out I throw some in her yard.

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