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Foundation woes.... continued...
Folks -
Well, I am back at it with the foundation layout and cutting of the footings. Wif and I restrung the foundation lines and make our cut lines for the backhoe guy again... He wanted the line 3" OUTSIDE of where the cut was to be.... So he showed up this morning and got started. Lo and behold - he didn't make his cut 3" inside the chalkline, he SPLIT the chalkline and dug 30" deep instead of 20". Goddamn it! I needed a trench 1 foot wide, now the trenches vary between 18" and a bit over 24". So now I'll end up A) buying appx 1 acre more fill sand than I was planning; or B) renting a compactor and tamping the soil to get my depth right, building my forms, and backfilling the sides and compacting that; or C) Both. I perhaps should have gotten some other backhoe service, but this was the only guy to return repeated calls. Sometimes I just *ucking ***HATE*** contractors. Nothing personal, to those of you who are, I was just hoping to at least have the footings dug out before someone ****ed me off.... John |
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