Strawberry Bed

OK... With the wife and daughter in Bend for the weekend visiting Granny AND a very rainy weekend, I had to try and get something done. I knocked off a honey-do today and installed Jaq's strawberry bed sans strawberries. The lovely downspout you see pictured here is a result of attempting to get the drains as far away from my foundation as possible to keep the rain from flooding my basement. This corner, in particular, drains directly to the basement.


I need to seal the basement walls with UGL Drylok (& UGL Fastpatch for the big holes). Well.... that's another project. In 1923 they didn't fully form basement walls. This wall was constructed by digging a hole and building interior forms. The outside of the basement wall is formed by the wall of the hole, no forms. There are really no footings either and no footing drains build. This is very far from what is built today.

Pouring concrete in 1923 was a very labor intensive process. Using wheelbarrows from the mixer to the pour site and mixing in batches causes semi-circular seams in the vertical walls. Things are made worse when the cream separates from the aggregate causing porosity. Anyway, that's enough about my basement walls.