Barndominium/Shop or "real" House?

[ETD66SS]

Very nice work and well thought out - and you have all the tools and machines to make it look easy. Its a lot of work working alone, doing conduit and backfilling.

Like the older iron you have the Ford 1920 with plow, the older Ford with land plane? and is that a JD BH or Case?

The backhoe is Ford 575D 4X4. I've owned it for 20 years now, it's done a lot of work.

To save money on all the fill I needed to raise the build pad I went with hard fill. Lot of chunks of concerte, asphalt and red brick. Made the conuit job a lot more difficult. Backfilled over the conduit with a few inches of 5/8 crusher run before using any of the hard fill. Tamped in layers as I went. Don't have a trench compactor.

 

[Carl_NH]

Yes - saw the fill remnants in the bucket of the 575 - that makes it a lot harder, but you got it done. Here in NH the first 2-3 feet are comprised of glacial till rocks and boulders - not fun doing any piping or digging. Here, once you break through that 2-3' mess of glacial till its a nice sandy mix.

Your project looks very well planned, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing how its built and where everything is - IF you need to redo anything in the future.

 

[ETD66SS]

I bought a jumping jack compactor to to compact around all the columns and my conduit trenches.

Unfortunately there was quite a bit of water pumping up in some spots.

I knew I should have put in a drain tile when I backfilled the build pad last year. I decided to start on that today.

I'll probably use 6" corrugated pipe with filter sock near the building and then switch to non-perforrated to carry the water away.

It's probably going to take a couple weeks to dry out the pad so I can resume compaction.

 

[EddieWalker]

Is all that water from the water table?

 

[ETD66SS]

Is all that water from the water table?

Yes, the water table starts very high here in spring, and it's been raining pretty much every day for the last 3 weeks. From now until August the water table will drop about 5 ft.

However, this water was sitting under the building pad because of the way I put in my driveway approach to the building. So definitely want drain tile on this side of the building pad so every spring I don't have so much water under the concrete pad.

Pad Draining

I did put this drainage pipe in when building the driveway, to get water from one side to the other, but water is still getting underneath the building pad.

 

[LouNY]

Do you have enough slope to take it to daylight or are you going to have to use a drywell tile.

 

[ETD66SS]

Do you have enough slope to take it to daylight or are you going to have to use a drywell tile.

There is a drainage swale about 100ft from the building, I've already rough trenched out to it to get the water away from the pad.

I don't have any kind of fancy laser setup when I dig so will have to go back over everything with my transit when placing and backfilling the pipe to get proper pitch.