Our Country Cottage A Narrative

Water Water Everywhere describes what can happen if the natural flow of water is not taken into account during the design stage and ITB, In The Beginning, carries on to the end of the first year of construction. In previous episodes I have mentioned how we controlled outside water and how we improved the original water control design, or lack there of. It started one day during the early construction stages. We had driven up to our country cottage to see the progress. Things had been moving along at a good clip for a while. In fact it was less than a week since our last visit, but something was different. First we noticed that no one was there, then we noticed a large pool of water in front of the garage. The forms for the garage floor were still in place, as the cement for the floor had been poured a couple of weeks earlier. They were almost submerged.   There was a two foot wide sink hole across the drive where the water pipe and cables had been trenched and filled in a while ago. The supports for a fifth