Monday, May 08, 2006

Pouring foundation footings

Our excavator/foundation guy worked through the weekend; Satuday was nice until the rain moved in by mid-afternoon. We did have a problem with the ledge in the basement's southeast corner, but solved it by moving the entire house footprint two feet to the west, and changing the drop-downs slightly. A quick, inexpensive fix to a potentially big problem.

Sunday we had clear blue skies, but temperatures never got out of the 50's. Really, ideal for working outside. Brent set up the forms for the footings, while I cut wood for drainage ditches and our underground power line. We are planning to pour the footings today, and should get the forms for the foundation walls up by Thursday. Weather permitting, we could have poured walls by the end of the week!

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