Day 11: Foundation forms

The footings received the top part of the foundation forms today. I thought it was interesting how the crawl space vents are made - inserting the vent blocks between the form walls. See the picture in my Flickr pictures with the link below.

Day 11 pictures

Day 10: Footings are in

Today was a big day - the concrete for the foundation footing was poured about noon and by 5pm the forms were stripped and the foundation forms were started to be put in place.

Mike also pointed out to me that we've got carpenter ant damage under the old mudroom door. He explored a little bit and didn't see it too far from that location, but it sure looks extensive and we will need to find out more about this in the coming days.

More Day 10 pictures

Day 9: Forms for foundation footings

More progress at last. The footings for the foundation will be poured tomorrow, so the forms went in today.

Day 9 pictures

Day 8

Did I say "the foundation guy will come tomorrow"? Maybe I meant that he'll come tomorrow as in "Thursday or Friday"...

Mike has received clarification from the structural engineer on venting the mudroom crawl space and is figuring out why the architect and structural engineer seem to have designed slightly different houses.

Day 7

Nothing happening at the house today. The architect hadn't specified venting for the crawl space under the new mudroom, so we've been going back and forth over that. We can't put in a standard window since there is only about 8" of clearance from the ground to the top of the foundation. Mike is figuring out options and says that the foundation guy will come tomorrow.

What's that smell? (Days 4-6)

The guys who tore down the garage didn't turn all the breakers back on. Most of them, but not the one that the freezer was also on. Suprisingly, we had a lot of frozen items in the freezer and some ice that was even still frozen, so fortunately even a few days later things actually weren't stinky and were even cold. I'm not sure if they will be edible but there is some hope since not all of the ice was melted. What will REALLY piss me off is if Cheryl's strawberry-rhubarb pies that she made last summer are inedible. We're only down about $40 in food costs, but quite a bit in time that Cheryl or I put into the items that we froze for lazy dinners.

Nothing happened on days 4 or 5, but on day 6 the town building inspector came by to approve the excavation for the footings. The hole shows no sign of any unstable base, so we're signed off.