Backfilling and Window Wells

Done.

Almost done.

Getting there!

A scary view from down low.

Our chute won't win any engineering awards, but it works.

The east well is deeper, so we constructed a skirt of OSB
and house wrap prior to back filling with gravel and sand.

A layer of sand covers the top, and will be
followed by about 6" of dirt.

A few sand/gravel filling cycles later, and we wrap it.
Not sure if we will leave it this way, but it seems like
it will help keep the window well dry.

We used house wrap to separate the gravel from the
surrounding sand, per the manufacturer's instructions.

Six yards of gravel will surround the wells
(3 yards each) in order to provide drainage.

Here is a view from inside.

We added 4x4s to the base of the west well to make it a little longer.

And, having just made some final adjustments to the interior
walls, Adam's heads home. He will return in the Spring to help
us with our porch and other cement work.

Adam and Pablo attached the wells to the wall. The
one in the foreground has an extension unit below it.

And now... ready for installation.

Our Bilco egress window wells, ready for assembly.

Some gravel for our window wells.

The pile slowly grows.

And now we finish back-filling that hard-to-reach corner.
This dirt conveyor, with a few on-site modifications,
does the trick, but its still a bit like trying to squirt
dirt through a garden hose. It takes all day.

We shored up the shed using steel posts removed
from the crawl space under the old house.

Back-filling is tricky in this area, since the
excavator can't get back there. We used another
method, as you'll see shortly.

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