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Footings are being inspected Wednesday. Concrete poured Thursday. Do I need to keep the footings wet to cure, or is that only floors?

Starting the footing forms. 8" is required. A workshop is never big enough. So.... I'm building as big as I can. That's me.... at the back. Pops and me leveling the forms

That photo with with the dump truck was Friday. They worked 7:30am to 11:00am, and hauled away FOUR dump truck loads of rock in that time. Friday was day three of digging. They left me the "small" rocks. Back fence is further onto the property than I want. I'm allowed 1.0m setback, but I end...

There are SO many rocks. I'm glad I'm "paying the man," because I can't lift these rocks, and it only takes about 10 or so to reach the max capacity of my truck. I'd be hauling rocks away for most of this year and next. Digging of the foundation is done (three days). Surveyor coming out...

Day 2 of digging. Probably at least another two more days?

Finally. Digging. And rocks.

Gas guy came by today to work out numbers for running pipe and the furnace and such. Nothing else to report.

I've been teaching for 18 years now. 14 to go. But I'm not counting. (grin) I did my practicum at Delta Secondary School, so we're practically family! The hoist is arbitrarily placed to decide on how it will all work for me. I drew the left post centered on the door opening, and the right...

Met with excavator guy. Off-the-top-of-the-head numbers are much better than I feared. Says they can probably get to it in a couple of weeks. Gas guy coming Wednesday, so I can know where to trench the gas lines from the house.

Excavator coming Saturday to check out the site for a quote. Thinking I need to move a car I have stored in a lean-to over where the gas/electrical needs to be trenched. Car used to be in a garden shed.

Got my permit today. Apparently there ~was~ a delay. Surveyor is next in the queue. Good to get moving on this.

As of today, the house has been upgraded from 100A to 200A. Still waiting on a permit. It's almost 2 months now.....

Still waiting on the permit. Got quotes on garage door, and a suspended furnace. Garage door guy strongly poo-poo'd the idea of windows in the door (widows in a door = poor R-value). I'm thinking more about skylights, but installing them right up near the peak to minimize any water/snow...

Close to 8000lbs of concrete just from this 12'x14' pad, and another wee pad I broke up. Wow. Still, cheaper to dispose of it than to get it, I'm sure I will soon find out.

4500lbs of concrete to the dump, and still more to go.

Thanks! The latest design (parallel to fence) was chosen as the least compromising, because: 1) Marginal intrusion into septic field 2) Ease-of-access/approach for vehicles (and less driving over septic field) 3) Hoist placed on right side of shop (with 3' clearance to wall) allows more...

Busting up the concrete pad from the Green Shed Vid of dropping the big spruce

Applied for a permit today, and contacted the surveyor for marking the dig.

I now have a deposit down on trusses. Refining my structural drawing. Question though - If I were to wrap the outside of the structure in extruded polystyrene, from footing to soffit, would I notice enough of an energy savings to counter the thousands that such an effort would cost? I'm...