Another beginning

Well a lot has happened since I last blogged about our project. We replaced our builder because after three months the roof still wasn't finished. He deviated from the plans (which was why that beam was sagging - the way he built the roof, too much weight was transferred to the center of the house instead of the sides) which did not make the building inspector too happy. We had to have the engineers come up with a solution which the builder had to complete before we let him go. As we were digging for the foundations, we found an old well. It was a thirty foot deep, hand dug well lined with stones and about three feet wide. I can't imagine that someone dug this with just a shovel and went that far down. I'm sure many people were killed by cave-ins digging these wells so long ago. Unfortunately, the well was in our living room, so we had to fill it in. My husband and I felt guilty destroying something that took so much hard work to make. Here are some photos of the well.



The foundations were dug and poured by the Guiliam's brothers without any problems. The block work was finished and passed inspection.