Foundation This Week!

To finish up my one story from a previous blog, the lone tree was pivotal in deciding to move the site pad 20 feet forward which helped to save the tree. As it turns out, the tree will be the center point from looking out from the family room. Very cool! Now for some more pictures!

Here is an essential element to any construction site! The potty contractor was great and delivered the same day ordered. :-)




Okay, it doesn't look like much right now but best as I can determine this is the front entry to the house. It should look much more interesting once the concrete is poured and the foundation is in.











This picture is not particularly interesting but a shot of the master suite. The form board closet in is where the closet will be located on the front of the house. Notice at this point there is no trenching. The plumbers are coming in the next day to do the rough in plumbing.









This is where the form has an open section to allow for the tractors to come in to do the plumbing rough in and eventually the trenching for the foundation. It is the coolest thing to see this mini tractor squeeze through and then get inside and do all kinds of digging and excavation.








On day four of the rough in work, the foundation crew had to come back and make some adjustments in the forms due to some inconsistencies with the plans. Ultimately no big deal because it is much better to catch design issues BEFORE the concrete is poured, but this still set the project back about a week. This picture shows a plumbing pipe which will need to be relocated as it is now right next to the form.







This shows progress of the rough in stage on the master bedroom side. The pipe outside the form will be for the septic system. I just hope it is located in a good spot for the septic installation which will take place after the framing is completed.









Here we have the freshly dug and filled trench for the main water line. You should have seen me when this first started. I heard the sound of cracking wood and didn't quite know what was going on and came running and screaming. I thought a trencher would be use but a mini back hoe plowed a hole out and the line was laid and in quick time. The operator was very good at not disturbing any more than needed to lay the line and you can barely see from the front of the lot where the line goes towards the house. I just got ahead of the plumbers the morning of the trenching and devised the best path for the water line in a way that did the least amount of damage to the major tree. The pictures makes the path look bigger than it is on the site.


Ah...sedimentation fencing..how I love you and may I count the ways. I have layed 500 feet of this fencing around the perimeter of the property so to keep various parties from creating trails in and out of the job site. I will also set up a power pole right near the job site so that there will be no need for contractors to got out to the main t pole for power.














This is the cabling which give the strength to the post-tension slab. This sat on site over a weekend but I wasn't too concerned about someone just walking off with it! I tried and couldn't even lift it. But the guy who made the delivery was very strong and had no problem man handling this stuff.

The next blog will show a much more advanced situation with all the plumbing complete, and trenching done for the steel cabling and will be as of the day before the pour!