Looking north

Forms for the interior footings

The garage floor

Interior footings poured and stripped

Mechanical room in crawl space

Front of the house, looking towards town, when it isn't hidden by smoke.

Pony wall and sill plate

This is my favorite part of the day...getting to go out to the new house and see what kind of progress they have made during the day.  A pony wall and sill plates .

Carl's in charge of cutting the wood so he's got a nice 

wood cutting station set up for himself. 

                                                    Tristan , working hard.       

                                              Steve working on the sill plates 
                                         

                   

 Dan excavating a little more in the mechanical room

 & crawl space area.    

Pony wall at the master bedroom end of the house.

   

Broken Bulldozer...not for long!

One of the spacer pieces broke on Dan's bulldozer, but lucky for him Dave knows a few things about welding and was able to fix it right up.  

                                     Grinding off the old weld.
                                                         
                                                     

                                                       Dave fixing the dozer. 

                                                      Dave welding the spacer.

                                            and...the finished weld.  Good to go!  

Backfilling the garage.  Steve on the Wacker while Dan and Carl discuss

The *crew*  Dan, Steve and Carl

wider shot of the house looking south

I dug 11 large outside trash bags full of weeds up on Saturday

Garage is filled and compacted

Utility conduits to the house

White pipes in the ground are my gutter water collection manifold

View of the foundation walls after the forms have been stripped.

Looking North, the foreground corner is the master bedroom.

All of this dirt has been moved into the garage and compacted.

The *BIG POUR*

Pulling up to the lot, it was hard to miss the pumper truck

Definitely some teamwork involved to maneuver the forms while holding the end of the boom with concrete shooting out of it.

Wider view shot of the wall forms being filled with concrete.

 

More mud flowing

Looking towards the south

*SCHWING*

foundation walls

Here is the framing for the foundation walls .