Excavation and Start of Footing Forms
We have (mostly) completed the excavation for the foundation footings and have started building the forms for the footings. I say “mostly” because we didn’t quite get everything done with the machine and there are a couple of spots that will have to be dug out by hand. I’m not looking forward to that at all.
We have to pour the foundation is two stages. The first pour is for the footings and the second pour is for the wall. The footings are basically the blocks upon which the entire weight of the house rests. We use the term “footings” (plural), but in fact it is one continous, solid concrete block that runs its way around the entire perimeter of the house and in two places, through the middle. In our case the footing is 20″ wide by 10″ high. Footings are a part of the house that is never really seen because of course they are buried under the ground, people are typically much more familiar with the foundation walls, which tend to be visible on at least portions of most houses. But the walls are a ways off.
Emily ensuring the building materials are all in order
It is so nice to see progress now. Building progress. Although with just the hole in the ground and some forms therein, it is still hard to visualize what the house is actually going to look like. But that’s getting quite ahead of things, we’ll get there.
On a real positive note, the piles stumps and brush have stopped smoking and one no longer smells infused with campfire upon returning home.
