Frost Wall

The crew is hoping to have the frost wall completed this week. Yesterday's progress was excellent and as long as the weather co-operates I see no reason why we shouldn't meet this target.

This is the north east corner of the frost wall. The top block is also the height of the floor in the house. Looks like we will be bringing in a lot of backfill.

We will fill the open areas where the steel rods are with concrete, probably on Thursday. The insulated side is the exterior face of the wall.

In several locations we have these steps over the bedrock. Pat was careful to measure and build the footings to fit the size of Durisol blocks we are using.

Sometimes it's necessary to cut a block. Here you can easily see the composition of the block and the insulation attached to the inside.

Straight and level, we are making progress.

At the end of the day we usually sit by the campfire and listen to the loons talk to each other as the fly over the lake. It doesn't get any better than that.

Check back on Friday for more pictures.