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Foundation Layout
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" Looks like they did a good job big enough of all they did a great job and they did this in just two days the whole thing -- because it couldn't get a machine in here fallible plantings and and everything here fortunately all the digging was done out by hand but it's -- Charleston niceties he did so it's pretty easy digging bomb he were to begin what do we go down into the hall connects. That's a lot of dig in here that is your I think there's no rocks yet. OK so you off formed -- footings and I guess. This is the area where the new front door is located right so that we create an actual vestibule or airlock here between the new door and the existing door way. Right and then what happens in this corner over here of this is it gonna take the existing -- and bring -- about six feet its own create a mud room yet in this area a case without any of family entrance towards the kitchen right it's obvious ceremonial entrance right into the -- towards the living room. Try and the wall comes out of the existing foundation right down the middle of this flooding -- okay. -- It is easy stuff though it and it. Goddess -- great and it's -- and how how much more to the ethnic what would he's just going to the two inches because you want to put his twelve inch these footings just little bit. So the flooding is 24 inches wide and twelve inches deep right OK now tell me what you've done up here though I noticed you've got this trappings. Nailed on to the sidewalk all over the plant's -- or what this is that this is being. Top of the existing floor on the inside of the house who want to use this as a reference point. Who can. Find out where the top of our walls are going to be when we put into place them all the way around the perimeter yeah that'll be a good reference point throughout -- this part of the construction. We're also going to use them to string lines up Bob they'll tell us. -- that these walls that will sit on the footings. Witnesses that you've got these two. Strings in place which -- They relate to me in these walls will go with -- want to take some steel -- put them into the footing yeah. We decided not longer really talking about the foundation wall here's a detail that's right and you look at it. All the boring today is. The twelve by 24 inch putting right and this is the wall it's got a shelf -- right here in -- wall that's right ms. Steele wants to come right up in this spot so it's critical we get it and -- thought so you want to make sure that it lands in the middle and that's torture. -- Measuring line to the -- exactly good now this portion of the construction is below grade that's what it meant so much excavation just running house itself you stepped down into the area thirty inches 3066 interstate yeah and then the perimeter of course goes along here. And the finished -- Will be fourteen by fourteen by seventeen athlete. And then of course to take to jog here right because. And art and design this we had to deal with the existing -- our existing pitch is going to stay the same and Sonya come already here we have to bring this wall and because of the way it is pitched comes as bit complicated and it's really crucial spot it's very complicated indeed. Well that's interesting though if you look at the conditions of the soil here in the nicest it's almost something like science class but it's all fans. And then just a little bit of play here and then of course the tops all that was brought in during the landscaping and construction period right yeah."
