{"id":251,"date":"2016-05-24T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2016-05-24T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:19:36","slug":"pouring-the-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/pouring-the-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pouring the footings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday felt like a real milestone, with the pouring of the concrete for the foundation footings.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are the footings before the pour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-252\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6424-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6424\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6424-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6424-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6424-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We did a little ceremony to &#8220;bless&#8221; the foundation to mark the beginning of our new house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-253\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6398-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6398\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6398-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6398-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the pour started it took 6 or 7 hours and went smoothly; concrete trucks kept showing up regularly every 30 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-254\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6465-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6465\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6465-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6465-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6465-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In all, we poured 108 yards of concrete.\u00a0 Here is the foundation the next morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-255\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6496-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6496\" width=\"730\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6496-1024x699.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6496-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_6496-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next step will be building the foundations walls, which starts tomorrow and will take about a week and a half.\u00a0 Then we pour again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday felt like a real milestone, with the pouring of the concrete for the foundation footings.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are the footings before the pour. We did a little ceremony to &#8220;bless&#8221; the foundation to mark the beginning of our new house. Once the pour started it took 6 or 7 hours and went smoothly; concrete trucks<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/pouring-the-foundation\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Pouring the footings<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foundation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}