We went up to the lot this afternoon to meet Jesse, our build supervisor. He seems like he will be a nice guy to work with and reassured us that our presence was always welcome on the site, as was our input.
When we got there the footing forms were all in place and the pumper truck showed up and got situated for the first concrete pour. It was pretty impressive to watch the pipe extend from the truck. There was just a minute where the truck bucked a little bit and Jesse said he'd been on a job where the ground was too soft and the driver hadn't set his bracing properly and when the crane and pipe extended out in front of the truck the balance and weight were off and the truck tipped over. That would have been crazy to see and I'm glad the driver today did everything correctly.
The forms were ready and the pumper truck was ready and in place so we just needed to wait for the concrete trucks to show up.
We only stayed to watch them pour the first few feet of footings. The driver of the pumper truck wore a remote control unit around his neck and controlled the flow of concrete and even moved the crane with the joystick controls on the box. See kids, playing video games can prove helpful in your job as an adult!
We came back after running to Home Depot to order 61 sheets of extruded polystyrene boards that we will be laying down in a week and a half. Luckily, HD will deliver them right to the lot for us so we don't have to figure out how to transport them and where to store them. We'd love a little help laying down the foam boards (and getting them cut to fit around the plumbing and monolithic footings) and then getting our pex tubing laid down and fastened to the boards. As of right now we are shooting for Tuesday, June 5th through Thursday, June 7th. Those days are a little flexible depending on weather and subs. We are already about a day and a half behind the "original schedule", but what happens on a spreadsheet doesn't always translate perfectly to real life.
Seeing the forms and concrete laid out like this really help us get a feel for the house. Of course, it helps that I've been designing the hydronic heating plan on Visio and Rob's been designing the wiring plan so we both have the floorplan pretty well memorized.
I LOVE seeing our trees peeking into the picture. I LOVE that we have trees!
What can I say? It's wet concrete. It's our house. It's inevitable. This will be under the front door for ever. After I drew it in, Rob started getting second thoughts about ruining the integrity of the finish so I smoothed it over a little with my finger.
Here we are standing at the footings to the front door of our house. The garage wall is the long wall to the right in the picture. All of these footings are going to support our house and keep it stable and safe.
We have a dumpster parked right in front of our lot. Literally. I hope I don't have to spend too much time going around cleaning up after the subs. Today we found a beer can, the crust of someone's sandwich and this uneaten lunch.
Subs can be so messy! Just hope that you don't have a human deposit like Lisa's neighbor got from the sprinkler guy - down in their window well.
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