So here’s what The Scot got up to this weekend…
- Back filled the hole in my basement floor – about 10 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep…
- Patched the concrete in the floor. Mixed, poured, screeded and troweled it myself. Bad idea.
- Got the excess soil and concrete out of the basement.
- Returned the ~400 lbs of unused concrete to the building center. Better more than not enough, but that was way too much.
- Removed a tonne of growth from around the garage.
- Pruned the lilac tree.
- Felled the pine tree growing too close to the lilac.
- Washed, vacuumed and cleaned the car.
- Watered the garden and the lawn.
I am broken and am actually looking forward to the day job for a few days.
If you have the means, it’s always nice to hire professionals to do the job for you. I understand that some people are simply too busy to do these types of things themselves, but you just don’t get the satisfaction of a job well done. Yes, I hurt but I saved a few hundred bucks, easily, this weekend and I will recover to do it again another day (probably this Wednesday…)
What’s next? Ordering the building materials to get the basement done. The goal is to have the subfloor laid this week and start framing next weekend.
Please stay tuned!
