Our Retirement Home Part Four (Breaking Rock)

Another beautiful start to another week here in eastern Quebec as work continued on our house. The contractor came up early Monday to resume breaking rock where the foundation will be in preparation for putting in the footings. The pneumatic jack hammer could be heard all over the Domaine for three days - we are sitting on a shelf of rock with very little earth or gravel. The pictures tell it all, from the heavy machinery slowly crawling up the driveway to the first dig into the ground (at last!) till the placing of the footings. It will take nothing less than an earthquake and hurricane combined to move the house once it is up! All that broken rock I had dumped where we plan to put in a garage as it will make a very firm base for the slab whenever we get around to it. Now the footing framing is done it is time now to pour some cement! gws

Finally! The first turning of the sod

Digging the perimeter

Hmmm time to bring in the jackhammer

Changing shovel to heavy duty rockhammer

This is going to take a while...

Check your measurements...again!

Day 2 and still breaking rock

Day 3 and ready for the footings!

Laying out the boards for the footings

Check your measurements!!!