The pouring of the basement slab is somewhat of a milestone, as it means we are close to getting out of the ground and building up. The concrete team has been working for weeks to prep the basement floor for the slab pour. The floor started out with just bare dirt, the interior wall footings,Read more about Basement slab[…]
Most of our house is wood framed, but there is a bit of structural steel and they installed it today. This would have (or could have) been done earlier, but this was part of the catch-22 we had with the staging area on our lot. We had to get some of the back fill doneRead more about Structural Steel[…]
The excavation contractor worked on a the back fill last week. This is the filling in of the space between the outside of the basement walls and the top grade of the lot. As complete, the waterproofing looks like this. At the bottom is the French drain tube. First they drape a fabric down theRead more about Backfill[…]
The plumbers are pretty much done with the rough plumbing that needs to be embedded under the basement slab. This is all sewer as the hot and cold water pipes are much smaller and can be embedded in the walls, floors, ceilings, etc. In the basement itself we have two full bathrooms, two sinks inRead more about Roughing in the plumbing[…]
I mentioned the large pile of back fill dirt in the discussion about waterproofing. We can’t get rid of that pile until we do the back fill, which is waiting on the waterproofing to finish. But, because of that pile of dirt, we can’t get a crane in place to drop in the structuralRead more about Site limitations[…]
Since we did the basement pour almost three weeks ago, we have been focused on two things, waterproofing the outside of the basement walls, and roughing in the plumbing that will go underneath the basement slab. We’ll talk about the pluming in the next post. While we don’t seem to have a lot of moistureRead more about Waterproofing the basement walls.[…]