Slab

This was actually finished last Friday, but I am a blogging slacker. Before we poured the slab, they installed insulation for me. Hopefully this will make for a warmer basement floor. We wanted to do radiant heat, but I just don't think it is in the budget, so I settled for just insulating. Then they poured the slab. I wondered how they smoothed it out when there wasn't anywhere to stand, but apparently when it gets to a certain hardness they can kneel on top of it to finish it. This is probably obvious to most of you, but I had never seen it done.

Underslab insulation

Here comes the concrete
Smoothing out

Finished product.

Window wells and backfill next week?

Walls and subrough plumbing

They put up the forms on Thursday and poured the wall Friday. Plumbers came to do subrough plumbing yesterday. If everything stays on schedule we could be pouring the floor on Friday and ready to frame next week.

Forms for the walls

Pump truck
Forms coming off the walls

Finished walls

sub rough plumbing

Footings!!

They started putting the forms down on Tuesday only to find that they needed the hole a little bit bigger, so the excavator came back Tuesday night to give them one more foot. They came back yesterday finished the forms and poured in the afternoon.

Footings take 1

Take 2Here comes the pump truck.

(I took the picture so you could appreciate the tight space these guys are working in)The pump extended.

There is a hose at the end of the arm of the pump truck that they carry around to make the concrete go where it needs to go. Apparently it is about 300 lbs. Here is how the mixer gets the concrete into the pump truck.

Almost finished

Completed footings!!! They are here building the walls today!

No foundation yet, but progress?

I think these are the forms for pouring the foundation, they were delivered Monday.

However, I still have a big hole...