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Jan-11-2007 Update
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Dan Olsway of Lucky Contracting and Tom started work on the boulder retaining wall at the North end of the driveway for the house today. The house sits on a hilly lot -- the foot of the hill is at the West end which is a full length Walk-out. The First floor on East end lands pretty much at the top of the hill. The scenic driveway to the house is from the Garage at the South-East end of the house and heads Sout-West to the private access road.

In the first write-up on this ICF house on Aug-12-2006, we talked about the initial plans to use the eventual driveway to the house as the construction road. However, because of the long winding driveway, we had settled for a shorter construction road from the private road on to the West side of the house.

Construction work on the house started on Sep-01-2006. Our plans were to complete the shell of the house by Nov-30-2006 -- and we had given ourselves a cushion of one additional month. Although we used up much of the cushion, the house was practically all buttoned up as per schedule plus a few more things beyond completing the shell of the house have been accomplished.

Today we focussed our attention on installing the boulder wall at the North-West corner of the driveway to the house. The boulder wall is going to be nominally 10 ft in height. At the East end of the boulder retaining wall is an ICF-wing wall -- so the boulder wall will merge into the ICF wing wall at the North-East end and then have a sweeping curve towards South-West.

I am posting for your reference a few pictures of the boulder retaining wall as of the end of day today Jan-11-2007.


A shot of the boulder retaining wall at the far end of the North-West View of the house ... Picture 1



ANAND Enterprises project SteG2yae-101 New ICF House for Gary and Pam Stehr in Highland Township Michigan

A little closer view showing the boulder retaining wall at the far end of the West face View of the house ... Picture 2



ANAND Enterprises project SteG2yae-101 New ICF House for Gary and Pam Stehr in Highland Township Michigan

This is a closeup of the boulder retaining wall ... Picture 3



ANAND Enterprises project SteG2yae-101 New ICF House for Gary and Pam Stehr in Highland Township Michigan

Zooming in on to Tom (on the left) and Dan Olsway standing in front of the boulder retaining wall ... Picture 4



ANAND Enterprises project SteG2yae-101 New ICF House for Gary and Pam Stehr in Highland Township Michigan

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