No More Dirt Floor!

The cellar (see Cellar Woes) and crawl space in Glenlochan were, well, creepy.  The crawl space was accessible by all manner of rodents and creatures who made their home there over the years (evidenced by the cat and bird skeletons found therein).  It was also an open dirt floor (no sheathing at all), and the space had uneven, widely varying depths.  At some points the crawl space was a comfortable 18 inches; at other points, Rob had to do the army elbow crawl to get around in less than a foot of depth.   It was also somewhat of a "graveyard"  - not only for cats and birds, but also for systems, pipes and wires that had been disconnected but not removed as the home had been upgraded over the years.  Please note, I've taken Rob's word for all of this as I had no desire to do the commando crawl through that dark, small, creepy space.

Rob spent a lot of time clearing the crawl space of the discarded systems and pipes, and then, with the help of some friends, we had the crawl space dug out to an even depth of 2 feet throughout.  The most exciting part is that we had a new cellar floor and the entire crawl space poured.  Here's some pictures of the process, our cellar, and crawl space, sans the dirt floor.

Gearing up to pour the floor:

Cellar floor before and after the pour:

 A few more cellar shots:

And, a few shots of the fantastic new crawl space:

 

 

Truly this project is evolving from the ground up.  And, it's slightly less creepy down there.