Here we are pouring the slab at the daylight basement. Next Wednesday, we will strip the forms from the slab and begin installing the deck support posts, and the decking frames. This weekend I have to return the pickup I have been using all summer to Don and Pam Hestekin.
This is Fred (Fritz) Hossfeld. He just finished building our driveway. It is about as perfect as it could be from what I can see. He completed it in 46 hours. Fritz is 84 years old. Next week I will look into getting the driveway graveled.
The entire driveway has been established. We installed 53 feet of culvert at the entrance and moved the driveway to the crest of the hill where it will be better situated to resist drifting snow and promote drainage. The driveway that was started last year has been smoothed back over. This coming week we plan to get a road grader to finish leveling the driveway, then we will get gravel hauled to finish it up. This picture shows the driveway coming in around the front of the house at the daylight side. The driveway then continues around the house and comes back out between the garage slab and the rear of the house.
Here is Jerry Phillips putting up the last joist hanger on the house, for the deck. Tomorrow, I will finish peeling the last four logs for the deck supports, and start cutting them all to length. I will then plunge cut a slot in the base of each log so they will fit over the blades cemented into the deck support pillars. I will paint the base of each log with tar so water does not wick up into the wood and cause damage in the years to come. Then they will all be installed and supported with 2X4's so we can scribe the lines for the double thickness of 2X12's that will serve as the outer rim of the deck.
