Everything is coming together nicely now. With the launch date set for midnight, I now have time to concentrate on where we are going to live. Like many great adventures, this one will have a very humble beginning. A very large hole in the ground…
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Cutting away the concrete floor around our exploratory hole |
Before we could build anything in the loft, we had to dig the compulsory wine cellar. It’s simple logistics. We started with a small 4’ x 4’ exploratory hole to find out what was lurking beneath us. Much to our surprise, just 60 year old dirt. Good, hard-packed dirt at that. Good news for us. We then cut away the floor to bring our dimensions to the full 9’ x 12’ and started digging. Lot’s of digging.
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Getting close to our final depth of 8 feet and sizing our rebar... and yes, that is a toilet... it will be moved. |
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Add a 45 mil flexible liner and final rebar, then pour the floor |
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The finished product! |
Add some rebar, and several yards of concrete, and voilĂ ! This is as far as it will go for now. We will run pneumatics for the trap door, electrical, and venting for cooling and call it a day. This will be framed over so we can begin construction on the loft and I will revisit it at a later time.