LIVING OFF GRID

This blog is about our travels in our solar powered "Airstream" and living off grid, in our passive solar home, near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada.

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Wednesday 7 September 2011

Durisol Delivery

Yesterday we received the second shipment of Durisol Blocks. Seven hundred blocks were delivered with a total weight of over 35, 000 lbs. Imagine the weight of our house when we add all the concrete and rebar.

Unfortunately the truck couldn't get into our site so we had to bring each skid in a 1/2 km.by bobcat and hitchiker; down the road and up the driveway, 24 times and by 10 a.m. we were done. (of course we started at 7)

Difficult to see but we had no accidents just took our time.

Stacked, stored and ready when needed.

The walls have been parged and today we will tar and apply a waterproof membrane along with the drainage line around the foundation.

The interior area of the foundation was cleared of all construction items, ready for the compact fill later this week.

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