Foundation Finished

I had another productive morning today which puts me on a pretty unusual streak. The weather is about to get lousy for a little bit so I can take a short break until it clears up since I have no room indoors to be cutting big pieces of lumber. 

A piece of pine spread across the two foundation pilings...
stone pathway is now extended to this new window alcove too.

This morning I went outside with the intention of backfilling the dug out foundation and then quickly moving on to some carpentry indoors. Backfilling was done in a matter of minutes so I continued grading the area... then decided to continue with hard landscaping around the area.

I expanded our stone pathway to where this new window alcove will be located. Then I placed some sod strips alongside the new stone... cleaned up the adjacent flower beds... did a little bit of raking... and now it is looking nice and clean out there.

The two foundation pilings are slightly low (on purpose). I'll rest the outside end of the floor framing on two treated spacers of the necessary size to keep this floor level. And, as mentioned in a previous blog entry, I'll be slightly cantilevering this floor out over the foundation pilings. 

Next... I plan to move indoors so I can finish the walk-in closet. I have some beadboard paneling to cut to size which will need to be cut outdoors before I can install it. I also have ceiling planks to stain and polyurethane which I plan to do outdoors as well (no room indoors). I think it is supposed to rain later this afternoon so the weather will put things on hold for a little bit. 

I can use a little rest anyway!