Jim started the morning putting more gravel inside the building - makes it feel even more like a real structure now - it has a floor, walls and a roof!
Then it was time to switch gears and start doing some outside work. So it was back to putting up some dimple board.
Then we put gravel down and extended the pipe that will eventually connect to a gutter system.
Going around the building...
Unrolling our new geo fabric - this is great stuff and much sturdier than the Home Depot offering. This goes on top of the gravel covering the footer drains so that the next layer of dirt and rocks doesn't clog up the water flow and cause issues.
Jim pushed dirt down from our piles and I pulled the big rocks out.
Then he kept putting dirt over the area, building it up so he could drive the Bobcat further and further back. Now it's difficult to get gravel in these areas not easily accessible - carrying shovelfuls of gravel would be too hard and too slow.
As he got enough dirt built up, he could drive the Bobcat and dump more gravel.
Of course, no gravel work is complete without lots of hand shoveling.
Then we extended the geo fabric further down...
...and repeated building up the area with dirt.
No more ditch next to the house!
Time to finish assembling the drainage pipe.
Now the pipe is around the corner and will go up to connect to the gutters eventually. Jim will make a T in the pipe as we build up higher to connect to a downspout in the corner.
Wow - you can see how much we built this area up - looks great!
We switched gears once again in the late afternoon and started putting up more waterproofing membrane. The Nudura rep brought us winter guard this time - it's supposed to be stickier and designed to install in colder temps. We were a little afraid that it would be much harder to work with but we're pros at this now - no issues!
At the end of the day, Jim stayed to work on spreading dirt in front of the building, working on getting the grade the way he wants it. Picture to come tomorrow!
Okay, Jim said I had to put this on the blog since I put everything about him on there! As we were working on the backfilling and I was picking out rocks, I put my hand out to grab a rock right when another one was rolling down (duh!). So my finger got caught in the middle. It turned instantly purple - the front side was purple all the way down to my hand - and very swollen. We thought it was broken so I went and had an x-ray. No broken bone - yay! - just badly bruised. Lesson learned hopefully!
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