Well Drilling

Here's Delores as the well drillers finished drilling a 500 foot well
for the new house. Water flow is low but with the depth, the well should
be more than adequate. Drillers will be back later in the week to cap
the well and get it ready for adding the pump once we have electricity
to the site.

Waterproofing Basement

Here are some shots of the foundation, ready for waterproofing and then to start the subfloor and walls.

Forms Removed

The forms for the basement walls were removed late last week, looking good. We'll finish up the drains on the outside of the walls, then should be able to move on to getting the sub floor in place and the walls framed. Hope to see a lot of progress in the next few weeks.

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Basement Kitchenette Cabinets

I've finally started making some cabinet for the small kitchenette area
in our basement next to the theater. The room is narrow so won't be
using a standard size cabinet, these are 22" deep instead of the normal
24". The main panel are made from 3/4" oak plywood and all the face
frames are made using oak. This is oak lumber that I have from trees
that I took down from the house in Leesburg.

The oak has been drying outside for a few years and doesn't look good
when you start working with it, but once planed and jointed, it looks
nice. Will use a natural finish that doesn't add any color to the wood.
The pictures show the cabinets almost ready to be sanded and finished.
The last picture shows the two base cabinets sitting in the room where
they'll go- wanted to make sure the fit and the layout will work. This
will get the small refrigerator we have in there up to a more convenient
height. Will also have a small bar sink.

Upper Cabinet with shelves

Door Panel

Test Fitting

Basement Walls Poured

Last week, the walls were poured for the basement. The concrete
contractor used a pumping truck to shoot the concrete through a long
hose on a crane to get it in to the forms. Took about 5 trucks worth of
concrete to finish all the walls.

New Lithographs

Mary asked me to make and frame a couple of lithographs from pictures
she had of a couple of old pictures of her and her dad. Since the photos
were different size, I tried something different to frame and hold the
lithos and think it turned out okay. The wood for the frame is 1/4"
thick paduak and uses about 30 small LED lights to get the effect.
Hoping she'll like it but she's only seen pictures so far!

Lithographs are made using my CNC router to carve the picture in to 1/4"
thick pieces of whit Corian counter top material. One the picture
without the light being applied to the back of the Corian, you can see
the carving, it's goes about .12" deep in to the material. Viewed from
the front without lights, not too impressive but as soon as you add the
lights from behind, all the details of the original photographs can be seen.

I'll try to post a couple of other pictures I've done this way in a
separate post.

House Wall Forms

Another cold day for the concrete crew but they put up all the forms for
the basement walls- ready to pour when the weather is warm enough.
Note that the truck used to carry the forms used to be a Dr. Pepper delivery truck!