Hole Pics And More.....As Promised

I woke up today with the rain pouring down figuring oh great this should hold things up.If it was me I defiantly would not be working in this type of weather,but that's just me.But too my surprise there they were the contractor,my brother, the electrician(who was not happy to be working in the rain)the hydro guys and 2 dump trucks.So it was a good day.The hole for the basement is dug out and the hydro meter was moved. Of course I have some pictures as promised.............

The first picture is of the trench that was dug through our driveway by my brother and his friend.This was dug by hand,and they busted up the driveway with a sledge hammer.Of course this is where they were putting the cable for the hydro meter.  Down below is the picture of the hydro meter in it's new place. 

There is unfortunately were the hydro meter had to go,it's not the most ideal spot but for cost purposes it had to go there.The job of moving it took them about 4 and a half hours, which will probably cost us about $500-600 in labor for the electrician who help my brother with the move.My brother had never moved a hydro meter before, so he needed to get someone who has to give him a hand.Which is fine by us because my brother is handling all the rest of the electrical work saving us a few thousand dollars.

Here we have a picture of the hydro panel that is now in our living room.Again not the most ideal spot but this again was a cost saving measure.The reason being that to put it anywhere else would have required more work from the electrician who was working with my brother.And at $110 an hour labor we couldn't afford to have him here anymore than he needed to be if it could be avoided. 

Here it is the hole.Actually this is what the hole looked like yesterday. Today it looks like......

this.As you can see the gas line still needs to be moved, but the chimney is down.   

Another picture of the hole and you can see where the hydro meter was and how deep the hole is.The problem with the hole is convincing our son that he doesn't really need to play in the hole and that he would probably have a hard time climbing out of it if he was in there. And below we have a picture of the big pile of dirt that now sits in our backyard. 

Of course convincing our son that he doesn't need to climb this has been a challenge as well.That's were things are right now in the construction and it's hard to believe that one day that hole(scrole back above if you don't remember the hole) will be part of our home, even though our son would love to get in it now!