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8 - April 1 - 5, 2002
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Sorry it has taken a while for me to get back in town with these pictures. It is now April 4th. I have been gone all week. Jan, Chris, Stephen and I went to Oklahoma for a family reunion over Easter and took a couple of pictures of the property. The floor has been poured and turned out very nice. It is about 8 inches thick, and reinforced with wire mesh. My guess is that if we do get hit by a tornado someday, I will find the basement intact. It may be in Kansas, but it shouldn't come apart. |
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| The hangar pad has been formed with fill dirt. This is the first major mistake so far. Mostly my fault. (OK. All my fault.) But I knew there would be lessons to be learned along the way. As you can see, the pad also turned out very nice. | ||||
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| The problem is that Judd understood me to say that the pad needed to be the same height as the runway. (Ok. I did say that, but was thinking it was necessary for drainage purposes.) Judd took this to mean that airplanes can't climb any type of hill at all, so he did as I asked and 78 loads of fill dirt later ($10,200), the pad is the same height as the runway. Not only that, but I need even more fill dirt now to be able to pull a car into the garage door on the west side of the hangar. | ||||
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As you can see, the driveway splits in front of the house. The problem is that the garage door in the hangar will be well to the left of where this driveway is climbing beside the foundation. The hangar will be a mirror image of the existing hangar on the lot next door. Luckily, no permanent damage has been done. I think I have a solution. Stay tuned............ I leave in the morning for Caracas for a couple of days. It is also our wedding anniversary tomorrow, so I need to sign off for now. I will try to give you the solution before I leave. April 5th.... Anniversary. I just wanted to give you the solution I have come up with. I talked to Judd and it seems that we could lower the pad by scraping off about 2' of fill dirt. That would not only lower the hangar so that it wouldn't be so ominous looming over the house, but the leftover fill dirt would then be used for the driveway leading into the west side of the hangar since it no longer has to climb a five foot hill to get into the garage. It means hiring the bulldozer crews to come back again to move the dirt, but overall, I am glad we didn't pour the concrete yet. Lesson learned......make SURE you are on the same page with the contractor and everyone understands not only what the end result will be, but WHY it needs to be that way. Jan and I will go to Oklahoma next week and be there Monday through Friday. I understand the first 3 loads of lumber have arrived on the hangar pad and the framers will start framing the basement today and the first floor next week. We will take photos and paste them on next week's website. |
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