We said it last time and we’ll say it again: We’re thankful to have met Preston Lippert and his sons, Jake and Max, from PST Septic & Excavation. To say that excavating and constructing our driveway up a 100 ft (30 meter) tall hill was challenging is an understatement.
At the top of the hill, they excavated a dozen feet (4 meters) down to clear the way for our basement which will end up being about 3,000 sqr ft (~280 sqr meters). It wasn’t just the famous Kentucky clay. The biggest challenge was getting through the thick rock which has the density and hardness of granite. There’s huge shelves of rock larger than most home foundations and these shelves occur many times the deeper you go into the hilltop.
Not even our new tractor (“Big Red”), which weighs ~7,000 pounds (~3,200 kg) and has a large excavator, had a chance of getting through a foot (30 cm) of that rock. PST brought in large Caterpillar excavation equipment and with a lot of perseverance, they succeeded.
Tom Libertiny
Concrete for the Basement
Next time, Jace and his team from Triple J Concrete begin work on our home’s foundation.
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