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                                   Building Our House in the Caribbean

                                          Step 10 - Constructing the Breezeway and Lower Level Retaining Walls
  

AFTER FOUR DAYS OF DIGGING TO WIDEN THE AREA BEHIND THE HOUSE, THE TEAM CONSTRUCTED THE STEEL
                           CAGES FOR THE BREEZEWAY FOOTING AND PLUMBING WAS INSTALLED.

              Breezeway Footing3       Joseph and Sylvan Screed Breezeway Footing
     Breezeway Footing2

                                               
This was a tough pour with not much room to maneuver the concrete  tools.


  Sylvan Screeds Breezeway Footing   Jonus Pumps Breezeway Footing  
Breezeway Footing

                                                     
It was great to get this completed before the rains came!


     
   
                                    Sylvan Wears the Boots    Sylvan models the flowered boots that are ever so popular...

WE NEXT CONSTRUCTED PART OF THE BACK WALL FOR THE BREEZEWAY, WHICH ALSO SERVES AS A RETAINING
WALL.  THIS ONE WAS TOUGH AS WELL BECAUSE RAINS BROUGHT DOWN DIRT AND ROCK, WHICH HAD TO BE
    REMOVED BEFORE WE COULD POUR.  (We used a power washer to get the debris out on the day of the pour!)
                                  Woo Hoo IS ALL WE COULD SAY WHEN WE PULLED THIS ONE OFF.



Breezeway Wall    Breezeway Wall2        House View

   
Lots of bracing!                The walls are 12 inches thick plus some...     The pour was "just in time" because it rained the next day




                          The Crew

                                                       
This is the crew...we had a little break between concrete trucks

                                  
WE DECIDED TO POUR THE FOOTING FOR THE LARGE RETAINING WALL
                                                       NEXT TO THE WORKSHOP AT THE SAME TIME!

                          Retaining Wall Footing2     Retaining Wall Footing Pipes      Teamwork4
                                          We ran some plumbing lines through the footing.                       Great teamwork!

We're getting ready for our next concrete pour, which is the last stage before we excavate for the upper level later this month.
  We will pour a small retaining wall in the front of the house, a large retaining wall behind Chip's workshop, and raise the
                          height of the breezeway walls so the excavation dirt and rock will go where we need it.

                       Retaining Wall Steel                        Front Retaining Wall
                          
Steel goes up in large retaining wall              Forms are installed for sidewalk retaining wall

                                   House view 20Oct 2006
                                                   Breezeway and retaining wall forms from a distance

Retaining Wall Braced  Breezeway Wall Poured
    Lots of bracing was used on the retaining wall.
    Retaining Wall Poured
Breezeway Doors PouredSidewalk Retaining Wall Poured
                 The retaining walls and upper breezeway walls, as well as a sidewalk retaining wall were poured.



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