Robin and I stopped out at the lot yesterday and were pleasantly surprised to see this....
Yup, the concrete trucks were out Saturday morning and poured the footings for our basement (first pic) and our garage (second pic). Dennis said they might surprise us and show up yesterday to try and get caught up from the rain late last week, but he figured they wouldn't pour the footings until Monday. Well, now that the footings are poured this should mean that they'll be back on Monday to pour the foundation/basement walls!
You can see in the first pic all the gravel in the bottom of the hole. That's mainly there so the workers don't have to stand/work/set things in the mud or dirt. You can also see all the long 2X pieces of wood laying around. Those are the forms for the concrete footings. They place those in the proper locations, forming a hollow "frame", and then fill that frame (or "forms) with concrete. Once the concrete has dried enough they strip away the forms and we have what you see above.
The forms for pouring the concrete walls tomorrow are more of the same, except they'll be anywhere from 4 feet to 10 feet in height, depending on the wall they're pouring.
Once the foundation/basement walls are poured, not much will happen on the site for the rest of the week (a couple small things will probably be going on, but nothing really noticeable) as they allow the concrete to cure. Once that has happened, then things will begin to look different almost daily for the rest of the life of this project.
We had our meeting early yesterday morning with the supplier of the fireplace and the exterior stone on our house. We got all our decisions made there. We haven't actually seen our selected stone since last fall's Parade home that Dennis used it on, so it was nice to get to see what we'd picked again.
This coming Saturday are two big meetings: The cabinet supplier and the flooring supplier. Once those two are done we're almost done with sub contractor meetings, having only the lighting supplier left about 2 weeks after that.
