Day 3--End of week one's foundation progress

View of the back room for the backyard. The room above will have to be rebuilt once the footing and lower walls are in place.

The view from the back room of the kitchen and electric box.

View from the back room into the hallway. The wall which leads to the stairs will be closed.

Here, you can see the bobcat and the trench as well as the electric panel.

A view down the small hallway that connects to the kitchen and dining room.

And another view incorporating more of the kitchen.

A view out the back wall from the living room.

Another view of the same drain with tub and sink drains behind. Here, you can see the temporary supports that are holding up the upper floor until the new footing is poured where the trench is.

The toilet drain for the downstairs bathroom. Another bathroom will be placed here when we build back.

Days 1 & 2--Foundation work begins

The workers will be at my house, fixing the foundation, for about a month. I have a lot of older photos to post here, and I promise to do so in order for people to appreciate the whole process, but I want to make sure I get these posted now so that I don't forget. It's so amazing, this whole experience. Scary, but exciting too. I'll post my plans soon, once they're finalized. There are still a few things left undecided. Enjoy!

Making a trench for the new footing.

Continuing to level the ground over the cistern.

Levelling the new floor that will go in the kitchen and checking the depth of the dirt below the back room so that a floor can be put in.

Taking out the concrete sidewalk from the backyard.

Wow. It's all gone.

Removing the last of the concrete floor.

Levelling the dirt above the cistern.

Bobcat inside my house.

Yes, that really is scary looking.

A view of the work from inside my kitchen.

Inside the back room, the old cistern is filled in and the ground levelled around the outside.

Posts are used to support the upper floor. I wouldn't want to walk around up there, though. :)

Now the back wall is removed.

The wall is removed to be rebuilt, and a bobcat is used to remove all of the old sidewalk and concrete floor from the back room.

Ripping off the siding on the back porch room.

Why I bought the house--the view. T. Berry Smith tower on the afternoon that the foundation work begins.

The upstairs back room after ripping out all the ceilings and walls. This room will have to totally be rebuilt. Jackhammering is going on just below this room at the time of this photo.

Jackhammering my back room.

The jackhammer motor for my house. The foundation work is ready to begin.

Mom beside the truck full of debris to go to the landfill.