Kitchen, Crawl Space, and Geology

Today was a good day -- the kitchen cabinets were delivered by Ikea! It will be a while before we can install them, but they'll be ready to go when the time is right.

Last week we rented a paint sprayer and, after vacuuming the "ceiling" of the crawl space (joists and underside of the subfloor), spray painted ceiling and walls with a mixture of "oops" paint and some additives to inhibit mold and termites (boric acid, borax, sulfur, and orange oil). This is an experimental concoction that we came up with after a lot of Internet research, so we'll see how it goes. Soon we'll be able to lay down the plastic vapor barrier on floor of the crawl space, and hopefully that will end the work down there for a while.

Here's a "before" shot. The previous owners vented their dryer into the crawl space (bad idea!) and it was really yucky.

An "after" shot of the area of the crawl space that houses the furnace and the pressure tank for the well. You can see what the ceiling of the crawl space looks like now. 

A huge improvement!

More digging today. The geology of our property is really interesting. We ran into a vein of lavender-colored clay:

and a black sandy deposit flecked with gold (mica? pyrite?). (Click on the photos to enlarge.)

You can count on hitting a huge rock about every 3 minutes when digging. We're going to have plenty of material for one heck of a rock wall!