Humidity makes work and breathing harder than anything else that comes to mind. We get a pshytload of rain, (an inch day before yesterday ~ nice clay mud we're working in ~ Dash slipped down a slope at one end of our lumber caravan, skidded, and wrenched himself) but the temp stays lower than there I think. A lot lower.
We use the Bentonite to get the best foundation drainage. This building has an insulated foundation, so it's even more important to keep moisture away from it ~ the foam is Styro-Dow, so it doesn't absorb water, but too much creates happy insect environs, et al.
So in the clay, we slope the surface out and down from the bldg at the very base of the footing concrete, coat it with the Bentonite, and then lay the slotted drain in there. The intent being to shed the water away from the footing and into the pipe with minimum elevation. Then we lay another (solid) PVC 4 inch tube on top for rain gutters/runoff; and backfill with round rock and a filter fabric.
But it doesn't work and it's a waste of time and Arizona is nice.
I somehow LOST my regular work boots, and of course I have new ones (I bought three pair of top-end ones when I found some steel toes that fit my foot well) ~ but they're not "broke in" yet, and are eating patches of skin off ~ rubbing patches of skin off that are nice weeping sores now as I go up and down the site hillside.
Nummy.
The best stud-finder at any cost is a cow magnet in a section of surgical tube. And they're retrievers, you can get bits and screws and stuff out of places.
And while away the hours, seeing if they'll work through your tongue and such.
Up here, women carry one in their pocket to find studs.
Hoo boy. |
