First a Garage

[denmansoft]

After owning this property on Denman Island for 30 years it is time to build something to retire to. 8.5 acres with 160' beach waterfront. the area was logged 80 years ago and is mostly covered with 2nd growth fir and alder with some patches of red cedar.
Here is a couple shots from the beach.

One of our local Blue herons standing guard on the beach.


Looking north Waiting for Sunset.

 

[denmansoft]

We would go camping on the beach, and of course sometimes it would rain. Kayaks are great for playing around here.


But then it was time to extend the season so we picked up this 23 foot 5th wheel.


This has made camping on Denman far more civilized and frequent. For the last several years we have been doing 3 day weekends every 2 weeks from Easter to Thanksgiving.

 

[ultrarunner]

Great project and don't forget the pictures!

 

[denmansoft]

Now we are set up for anything.


Generator is awful noisy, so we 'borrowed' power from a neighbour. 225' of #12 cord worked for a while.

 

[denmansoft]

Here is our dining room and view. We still eat many of our meals down here on the beach. The trailer is back about 100' and up 15' from the beach.

 

[denmansoft]

We built a bridge across a gully for something to do.


Next came services.
This whole area is solid rock so we had to blast a hole to put in our power pole for service. Now we only need one power cord to the trailer!


The Well was drilled 30 years ago but no pump ever installed. We put in a 3/4hp submersible down near the bottom of the 240 ft. hole. We don't get a lot of water and will need to have storage tanks for a buffer.
Lots of pipe to go in the hole

Pump all ready to drop down.

Pump house all closed up.

 

[EddieWalker]

Very nice. You have a beautiful place.

I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures and your progress on building your garage.

Eddie

 

[denmansoft]

Next was to get the power up to the well and the water back down. By the time this was done we had gone through a spool of #8-3 and 900 feet of water pipe.
Of course we had to blast some of the road to put the services under it. This was done in a hurry because we heard they were going to re-pave the road.
By getting our crossing done first we didn't have to patch the pavement.




They ended up adding 8" of asphalt and that made our driveway even steeper.
It took a while and another truckload of gravel before I didn't need 4WD to get out.

 

[denmansoft]

Thanks Eddie.

The next step was trenching in the water and power 350ft from the road to the well. It was scraping down to the rock almost all the way. That is tough work with a backhoe. We were running about 2 ft down most of the way.
We were working so hard on that that we forgot to get any pics.

CLearing the site for the garage was a bit of work. just a few 75' trees to get out of the way.
I gave my Bro-tek thumb a good workout.








Stumps go over the cliff....

 

[denmansoft]

Now the trees are out of the way we can scrape the last part of the dirt off the rock.



Site is all ready for the rock driller to put in the holes for pinning the foundation to the rock.