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Being delivered
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Front half set. We did not realize there was a slope up to where the house sits until it was there :-)
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Back half set
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Utility stickers for reference
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The best pic so far that shows the length of the house.
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View from the side of the lot
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Strapped down
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The straps connect to 3 foot stakes that look like big drill bits
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The 2 sides of the house grounded together
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Lots of straps - that is a Good Thing :-)
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Hitch assemblies tucked under the halves. It never occured to me that the hitches are ours too
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Now to figure out how to extend this elevation over a porch
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Slight miscalculation of the turn into the propery
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Rain run-off really, really wants to run down this new ditch :-(
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Where we hope to put the house for dad from the side of the house
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Where we hope to put the house for dad from the back door
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The septic guys are here - Taylor & Son - They have my recommendation - we would use them again.
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Digging the first of the leach field lines
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First 100 foot of leach line. No one notices that we buried Darth Vadars head in our yard :-)
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Starting the second line and they blew a hydraulic hose. The main arm is no longer mobile.
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First leach bed line
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Bad hydraulic line is not a problem for placing the tank
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Getting the tank input to align with the house output
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Filling to the top of the tank which is just above ground
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They did an awesome job smoothing out the leach field
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Ellen has a HUGE flower bed to work with - pre-tilled :-)
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The well guys are here - Bouknight - NOT recommended - rude, did not want the job, wasted our time and theirs
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Underpinning done and front and back steps in place
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Well attempt 2 - AAA Well Drilling
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Reference for water line run
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And the other direction
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This is what the drilling crew left behind
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A second crew connects the well to the house. This is what they consider "finished" - pipes and wiring exposed under the well cover.
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When they left, the pipe and wire run were buried, but after 3 days of rain...
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Lots of cave-in where the pipe run trench was only surface-filled
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This would not have provided freeze and crush protection :-(
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We are happy with the well itself, but if you use AAA, plan on having a lot of clean-up landscaping to do.
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There are 2 recesses in the trees the perfect sizes for the sheds
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But the well went between where we wanted the sheds and their truck was still there - so sheds went on the other side of the house :-)
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This actually looks like a good parking spot for my car.
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Gonna need a custom ramp. The white shed (riding mower) will need 18 inches of rise. The gray shed (storage) will just get a single step.
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Now with RAMP
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Our personal lumberyard begins
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The sheds come with locking knobs which are trivial to get through.
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These are the locks I added. Had to solve a couple of issues along the way...
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Some of the bolts had to go through the outer trim, the door itself, and the framing 2x4. I didn't have 5" bolts
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The answer is to drill a hole from the other side wide enough for the nut and the socket driver and deep enough to meet the end of the bolt.
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Electrical meter on the house ready for hook-up
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The electrian was right - the wires from the pole were too short.
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So MCEC just spliced a bit in when they connected :-)
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My Internet uplink and some funky grounding work
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Trees and low spots prevent a driveway straight from the stub driveway from the street - so it will immediately turn right and follow a line between the trees to the house.
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Here is Paula demonstrating the right turn :-)
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