Bassement floors are now poured!

On Saturday we were able to get our floor poured. Normally we would have framed the house first but if we did that there wouldn't have been an easy way to pour the floor. This way we were able to get the pump truck out one last time.

I worked Wednesday and Thursday night getting the tubing in for the in-floor heat installed and on Thursday we had an inspection of the floor, roughed in plumbing in the basement and the waterproofing on the foundation. Unfortunately the waterproofing did not get signed off on because the inspector was not familiar with the product. Since then I have been able to talk to the inspectors and get everything straightened out so Perry Excavating will be out on Thursday and possibly Friday.

Halloween is a big day for the Hansen's! Not only are the girls excited to go out trick-or-treating but we get our first load of wood delivered. We should be receiving the wood for the basement, the first floor joists and the first floor framing. Now our progress should go fast (hopefully).

That's all for now next time I should have pictures of the backfilling and the load of wood.

The day of the pour...

Here is Doug and Jeremy doing some last minute securing, marking and popping pipes through the walls for power.

We ended up with a very nice day. It was warm enough that we didn't need sweatshirts on but we didn't hae sweat dripping down us. There were about a ten of us there working our butts off. So thanks to Doug, Roger, Jim, Dan, Jeremy, Rich and Ed for helping.

Below is Dan and Rich going to fix a wall before we get anymore blowouts.

Ed is making sure that I had all the tie wires nice and tight so our T-walls wouldn't seperate during the pour.

I'm showing Jeremy what to look for while pumping the concrete into the walls.
Dan is securing the corner with tie wire through the 2 X 6 corners so hopefully we don't have any seperations. He must have done alright because that corner held!!

Jim is feeling how far up the wall the concrete is. We were trying to go 3 feet at a time so we wouldn't have too much weight in one spot.

Break time waiting for the concrete trucks to switch spots.
The end at last. The next couple pictures are us finishing the top of the walls.

And the final product!!!! Free standing walls. the picture below you can see that there are steel studs sticking out in the garage area. These will be used once the prestressed planks are set. I will screw 2 inch foam and half inch OSB to them to create a wall so the topping on the prestressed doesn't flow down the side of the wall and it acts as a fake rim joist that way we will have something to secure the siding to.

The pour itself went from noon to 4 o'clock and took 66 yards of concrete. It may have took about a month to get to this part but I am glad I did it this way and not normal cement blocks!

Basement wall pour

It has been scheduled! We are going to pour the basement walls on Friday the 12th. After that we'll get the plumbing in the basement stubbed in, floor insulated, in floor heat installed and the outside of the foundation waterproofed.

On Monday the prestressed concrete (Molin) is coming out to get a final measurement for the garage floor and the front stoop.

We will have pictures from the pour on Friday when we're done.

Next Milestone Passed!!!

Today we had our foundation inspection and PASSED. Now we just have to wait for a few dry days in a row so we can pour the walls.

Late Update

I know it's been a while but here's the latest...

We finished all the Polysteel blocks so all the walls are at 11 feet. We have been working at setting the vertical rebar and tying it up. Next step is to get an ininspection and figure out where I need to put pipes through the wall for power, water and sewer. I need to make sure all this is through before we pour the concrete otherwise I will end up wasting a weekend drilling through the walls to put a pipe in.







Well, Perry Excavating called and wanted to know if they could spen a day and bring in some dirt.


I have no idea how many loads were brought in but I do know that there will be many more once we pour the wall and get the garage floor on.