What's Now, What's Next

I had a reader ask for slightly more details than a couple of pictures so...

My neighbor Tim came over with his tractor and dumped in about 50 tractor buckets of scoria so I wouldn't have to spend my winter wheelbarrowing it in. After shoveling, raking level (not perfect but pretty level; there's still a couple more floor layers to go where I can make everything exact) and tamping it comes out to a bit over 6 inches. I maybe would have done just under 6 inches but there was a lot of scoria and I didn't feel like bucketing out more than I had to (I did take out a few wheelbarrows even so).

The Floor Grows

New Kitchen!

Lintel and Strapping Pictures

Poly Strapping on bags

Lintel installed with nails on top for grip

Window ready for lintel

Lintel with plywood velcro

2x6 pieces screwed into lintel

Plaster and Backfilling and Lintels and Strapping

Work progresses! So beautiful to have another human being helping me. We have plastered to varying degrees everything we'd bagged up until yesterday, backfilled the entire perimeter (you can walk up to the walls! No more climbing in and out of a pit!), and set the first lintel. There's just one more bag layer to go on the north side before the last two final tube layers. I'll presumably finish that this weekend while Kevin is gone.

Plaster and Backfill Pictures

Mudding on the bags to get ready for the lintel

Bathroom greywater exit

Stuck plywood...by the time we tried to we couldn't pull it up