Down in the Dirt

For more than a week now we've been addressing moisture issues in the house: preparing the crawl space for a vapor barrier (smoothing out the piles of dirt, removing old pipes and rubble) and digging around the foundation to improve the drainage around the house. Neither of these are much fun -- Tom had a few choice words for whoever invented the crawl space. When I imagined a doing a remodel, I never figured there'd be so much digging!

(We dug out the awful cotoneasters at the front corners of the house!)