Pouring the basement walls

The concrete team has spent the last few weeks building the forms and the steel reinforement for the basement walls.  Unlike most residential construction, rather than building custom forms from wood, they are using prefabricated forms.

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The pour went a little quicker than the footings.  For the walls, they want the concrete to be a little more watery so that it flows into the forms and doesn’t create pockets.  That means they can pump it quicker and it takes less time. This pour also took 9 trucks to the last ones 11 trucks.   Here is the end result.

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Tomorrow they strip the forms and we can see our basement walls for the first time.

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