Seems like we are making progress, but as we get further along the more we realize the road is getting longer. For every step, two seem to get added to the route, with much navigation needed in making the right decisions along the way.
Tim finished the footing dig. But he will be back in another week to start the backfilling, so that the underslab work can be completed by Johnny's Plumbing. Then he will be pouring the slabs and the deck post footings using "bigfoot" forms.
You can't see all of the footing in the picture because they are at different depths depending on where they are at, e.g the footing on the front of the house are three feet deeper and will support the frost wall on the walkout side of the basement. The footing in the middle of the house will take the load transfers from the glulam beams in the main floor roof. They will be transferred down large wood post that will be on the backside of the staircase.
Pat Tomas and his crew tore down the footer forms and started putting in the basement wall forms during the day on Saturday. Luckily the wet weather let up for them.The blue line I am pointing two will be the grade line for the basement (9').
Virgil and I watched Pat back the trailer up with the forms all the way from Autumn Creek drive, past the "Summer Encampment", all the way to the building site...at speed, without doing the trailer tango that I "practice" just backing up ten feet. This is a good 600-700'.
They plan on finishing the forms early next week, and have the second concrete inspection on Wednesday. The pour will be that day too. The forms will be taken down next weekend. Then Pat's job is done. The it will be time for Marlys and I to waterproof and set the French Drain.
The Ufer Ground, I mentioned last week, turned out to be a length of rerod that is connected to the steel in the footer, but sticks out of the wall next to where the electrical distribution panel will be placed. Scott (Bright Light Electric) was on vacation this week, so I made a GC decision and decided to put it in the garage.
We also met with Carol out design/color consultant and picked out the "stick'em stone and house exterior color. Carol ha
s the exterior color as a "cinnamon" and the stone will be multi-colored. Along with the green roof it will look great. One item she moved us away from was putting too many colors on the exterior. Where we were thinking three (body & two trim) colors, Carol has suggested only a green fascia with the window, door trim and siding being cinnamon and then the multi-color "Bodega Bluffstone " from Eldorado Stone. The look should be complimentary to the site without disappearing or being to busy looking.Johnny Sr. also gave me some sleeve material for Pat and Juan to insert through the basement walls for sewage, water and electrical access. It looks like regular white schedule 40 tubing. I am still not sure how the sewage lines will be routed to the sewage sleeve, but that is what Johnny's Plumbing will figure out. This too is different then in the more northerly areas where the utilities come up through the floor slab to keep it from freezing. Here they will actually come through the basement wall.
We also talked with Johnny Sr. about changing the supply side piping from copper to plex. There are pros/cons to both, but with wellwater reactivity, the ability to take a freeze and the quiet nature of plex is pushing us in that direction. Johnny said that is wh
at he would put in if he was building a house. We will need to decided on making that change this week.We also did the preliminary selection of the plumbing fixtures. We will probably have to re-look at that once we get the price sheet. Seems as if everything was made by a manufacturer I had never heard of, e.g. expensive. I have a problem blowing the budget on a crapper.
Still can't get these poor guys a porta potty until next weekend.
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