Day 38
Waterworks
The exterior looks the same as yesterday, but it will now be much less dry, yesterday they hooked up the water to the existing well.
This little excavator made short work of digging a trench from the building to the well. Deep too, about 5′ down.
This is the first of a lot of trenching that will have to be done. Next week (supposedly) they will dig the trenches from the front corner of the house all the way to the back of the building to lay in the gas, electricity, phone and network lines. That should make for a bit of a mess back there.
This was a bit of an oversight and a disappointment. Apparently the designer had drawn in an 11′ high ceiling on the second story. We thought the ceiling would be all the way to the top of the rafters, which was an impressive 15′ as can be seen in the picture below taken last week…
What would have been a cathedral ceiling is now a mere flat ceiling. By the time we noticed what they were doing it was too late (and expensive) to un-do it, so we will have to be happy with the 11′ space. Don’t know how we all missed it on the drawings. Oh well.
Speaking of wells, they did get it all hooked up yesterday. Since they were digging around the well head I had them replace the farm hydrant with a new one. The one that was there was quite old and leaky. This well is all of 30 feet deep. Apparently Burford is floating on a large lake and we have quite a supply of water. The flow rate is impressive and the quality of the water is excellent.
As can be seen above, the new hydrant works well in both the off and on position. Really wet.
-Tim
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I'm your host, Tim Warris, a product developer in Port Dover, Ontario. Since March of 2007 I have been documenting the construction of the former CNJ Bronx Terminal in HO scale. For my day job, I design track building tools for Fast Tracks, a small company I own and operate. Fast Tracks makes it fast and easy to hand lay your own trackwork. Stop by our website to learn more!
Posted by: Tim | 04-26-2007 | 10:04 AM
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