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Week Six
Well, you may have figured it out by now.  On Friday of week 3, Mark took Julie to the house to see the progress and to revel in all that had been accomplished. Upon arriving at the construction site, and seeing the new space for the first time delineated by the walls and the steel beam in the basement, Julie went into an immediate funk.  The new space, she feared, was simply too small.

How did our heroes end up in such a situation.  It was really quite simple:  Mark was right and Julie refused to listen to him.

As the project began, Julie and Mark described to their first builder/designer (BDx-1), their vision for the new space, and BDx-1 provided a set of preliminary plans for their perusal.  At that time, the total width of the new space, measured north/south, was 16 feet.  Mark took out a tape measure, walked off the space, thought about how they intended to use the space, and said that he thought the 16 feet was not enough.  BDx-1 said that Mark was wrong and that the new space was going to be huge.  Julie, by virtue of the fact that she can turn into Tyrannosaurus Wife when she doesn't get her way, knew that she was going to have the final say, yet she didn't get out a tape measure, or walk off the space, or think about how they planned to use the space.  Instead, she relied on the tried and true "wife" method of agreeing with anyone who disagrees with the husband.

Mark was fairly sure he was correct, and he continued to argue for making the total addition 24 feet; Julie reluctantly agreed to 20...until she saw the space that warm, sunny Friday afternoon.

By the next day--which is about 2 years in "husband years"--Mark had contacted their current builder and had made arrangements to get an estimate for adding another 6 feet to the current hole--the addition to the addition.  Those numbers were painful--fully 6 times what they would have been had they simply made the space bigger from the beginning--but Mark and Julie agreed that it was too important to their enjoyment of the space.

So, there was the drawing of the new plans, the new permits, the digging, the inspections, the pouring of the foundation, the block work, etc., and, of course, there was rain.  But here in week six, we begin to see the payoff.
 


June 4: After waiting for
permits and the weather, we finally
dig for the foundation under
the new additional addition!
June 5: The foundation
is poured!
June 6: The crawl space
is defined!

The hole is cut for access to the
new crawl space.
The new block is water proofed...
...the drains are in place...

 

...the crawl space is gravelled.
Looking out on the new space.
Aha! Materials begin to arrive for
the next phase!