Just after the guys finished the house pad, the rains came in. We had record flooding again…just like in May. This time, it washed the sides of the culvert away. Just as we were getting started with the construction of the house, now we were on hold again since we could not get equipment across.
One of our neighbors down the street had an impressive railing built around his culvert that Wade and I had been eyeing since we bought our property. We eventually wanted to build what he had…but not until AFTER we finished the house. That did not go as planned and we ended up with a railing on it sooner rather than later.
There was a small section left of crushed concrete, just enough to get a backhoe onto the property. And work began on the bulkhead around the culvert.
Pouring another several thousand dollars into our culvert…we now have something that looks like this:
On a side note…this is when we found out we did NOT have stabilized sand in our culvert. If we did, it would have turned into concrete and would not have washed away and would have had to be chipped out to build the bulkhead. Our fault for not checking up on that during the culvert build.