It’s time for our first building inspection and we are a little nervous!! This is the inspection that has to happen before our cabin. If we don’t pass in the first try it means our pour will be delayed. After our inspection, we put in our foundation drain. A foundation drain is a drainage system installed on the outside of the foundation. It is put in place to collect in ground water and drain it away from the foundation instead of letting it seep through. We used flexible drain pipe for our project because it was a little easier to get into our truck and it required less connection points since we could curve it around the corners. Then we covered the drainage pipe with cleaned drain rock and then a soil separator to keep the soil from working its way to the drainage pipe and clogging up the flow of the groundwater. And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on YouTube. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 8 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own. Unfortunately, COVID-19 put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin. Follow along with us as we build our dream in the Hood Canal.
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