{"id":48131,"date":"2014-11-14T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T02:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/kitchen-project-day-8.html"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:28:01","slug":"kitchen-project-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/kitchen-project-day-8.html","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Project &#8211; Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much activity this week, since it&#39;s been so bitterly cold.  Today the GC and Assistant came out to prep the excavation for helical piers to be sunk on Monday. These piers, down to the bedrock, will anchor the house addition and keep it from crashing down into the neighbor&#39;s yard, so it&#39;s a Good Thing.<\/p>\n<p>The other activity was to extend out the slope down into the pit so that the pier excavator can get back out again after it does its work.<\/p>\n<p>After that, then we start seeing forms built for the new foundation and slab and all that jazz. Then (once weather permits) concrete gets poured. Much concrete.<\/p>\n<p>We reviewed another draft of the schedule, and things will start moving pretty quickly Real Soon Now.<\/p>\n<p>(  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23WAWGANK\">#WAWGANK<\/a>  is our new catch phrase around the household. &quot;When Are We Getting A New Kitchen?&quot;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6081757769217141457\/6081757766912541122'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-nKWrYJqvwy4\/VGa-d2rLgcI\/AAAAAAAC5ac\/G7yAlC1fzy0\/IMG_20141114_153218981.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6081757769217141457\/6081757767034168114' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Jj66GMpQvBs\/VGa-d3ILYzI\/AAAAAAAC5ac\/pSDaP8wLp68\/IMG_20141114_153237299_HDR.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6081757769217141457\/6081757767626932770' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-6sSQZFxAkFY\/VGa-d5VgQiI\/AAAAAAAC5ac\/DByTizm4P90\/IMG_20141114_153248330.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6081757769217141457'>In Album Hill-Kleerup Kitchen &#8211; 2014-11-14<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/eT5f4mxQErL'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much activity this week, since it&#39;s been so bitterly cold. Today the GC and Assistant came out to prep the excavation for helical piers to be sunk on Monday. These piers, down to the bedrock, will anchor the house addition and keep it from crashing down into the neighbor&#39;s yard, so it&#39;s a Good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/kitchen-project-day-8.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kitchen Project &#8211; Day 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,438],"tags":[752],"class_list":["post-48131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-kitchen-remodel","tag-wawgank"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_20141114_153218981.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48416,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/18\/kitchen-project-day-12-piering-ahead.html","url_meta":{"origin":48131,"position":0},"title":"Kitchen Project &#8211; Day 12: Piering Ahead","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Nov-14 11:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The weather cleared and armed enough to get the helical piers started for the additional spaces. 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