Re: new construction(yet unnamed)
Subscribed! beautiful house. I'm normally not a fan of the extra deep shops, but i think its the right way to do it to compliment the house and the lot. Will you need to build retaining walls or will the foundation be poured to hold back the dirt?
Thank you Joe13 the concrete foundation walls are designed as retaining walls
Subscribed and watching anxiously. Very cool!
One question for you, what did you use to do the compass inlay in the patio concrete? Love it !
MSD shop thanks for your comments. I drew the compass on the patio then cut the design with a concrete saw (demo saw) freehand. I'm pretty proud of that. I then acid stained the compass using the same stain I used on the floors inside the house, then put a coat of sealer on it. (Edit 2/23 added material and photos). My place sits between to lakes and a river connects them. The trees in the area are almost exclusively fir trees with the exception of vine maples, cottonwood, and the occasional pine tree. The ground water is very high. The fir trees surrounding my place are big some of the 6' across at the base. these trees are basically soaking in the ground water. So they end up rotting out from the inside. I really wanted this tree to stay, but it turned out having to come out.
There was some rot in it.
When I bought this property the grade of the property was high. In this picture he upper height of that bank came about out to the log post closes to the house and dove down steeply in about 15' to where the house foundation started. I had a neighbor that was in desperate need for fill dirt, his property was basically a swamp. He brought in equipment and moves 600+ yards of material off my property and used it to get his to drain and dry out, it was a total win-win. It was mostly pit run, with big pockets of sand and hardpan so hard an excavator could barely scratch it.
