Pitching In - Part 2

The 123 is the perfect size -and shape- for a small Coffee House. The layout is just about perfect. The main thing we weren't happy with was the front entrance. While the narrow Main Street face of the building with the single window and slight door were perfect for a small dentist's office, we felt we needed to open things up and create a welcoming entrance. If you've been following along you'll know that we intend to move the main entrance around to the west side facing the parking lot (see this post about brick cutting). And now that we have the inside well under way, it's time to start outside and get ready to open up the building.

One of the main things that needs to be done outside is to construct the gabled overhang that will protect the front entrance from the weather. There are several steps involved in this, but since we're talking about everyone pitching in to help, this post is about Screech and her contribution this past weekend.

See the squares that have been removed from the surface of the parking lot? These had to be removed to enable us to dig down until we hit bedrock. These will be the foundation points for the posts that will support the roof.

Here's Screech prying the last of the asphalt up:

See the yellow handled chisel right behind her? She used that and the hammer to chip a small corner out to give her a place to start to get in under the asphalt. . Then she used that pry bar (a pipe with a flattened end) in her hand to get in underneath and pry it up. When the whole square popped up, she stuffed one of those 2x4 pieces under it and then used a sledgehammer to whack until it cracked into pieces. She then pried up the pieces and set them into the wheelbarrow.

In this picture you can see the squares in relation to the building:

I'll get to what PC is doing in a later post. I do have a couple more pics I want to post that relate to the squares, but I have run to the end of my patience with formatting pics and text. I will have to start another post to add them....