Hardening concrete and support beams

The concrete has set for about 24hrs, and then brought in the support beam for the basement.  Looks like the plan is to let it continue to cure for the weekend and then install the first floor sub-floor.

It is just amazing how fast it goes from a hole in the ground to a real house foundation.

The basement pour...

Now that the walls are up, they are pouring the basement floor.

Finished foundation walls...

Pre-fab foundation : A slide show.

The dig progresses

They continue to dig.  It really is amazing to watch them use that excavator so effortlessly.

Also learned about there GPS guided, laser level.  They spin this bad boy up, it gets its GPS location, then fires out an infrared laser beam that they can measure everything from.  They were checking 1/4 inch depths at the bottom of the dig.

Here you can see how deep this hole really is.

And, I think this one speaks for itself.

One hell of a hole...

This is how it all starts.  First, they dig a big hole in the ground.  About 9-10 ft deep.

Diggers, trucks and bottles... oh my!

So, I've been really bad about keeping things up to date on this site.  But, I'll try a little harder now that things have really begun.   Up until today, things have been pretty drawn out.  I suppose that is how it happens.  In any case, I will go back in try to fill in the details a little.

But today, here is where we stand...

I spun by the site this morning at about 9a and met up with Patrick Davish, one of Janiczek Homes sub-contractors.  At that very instant I got to see on of the mega dump-trucks back in to the lot.

Apparently Patrick was meeting with the SIPS Foundation Wall distributors.  They have to do some serious measuring for a crane that will be bringing in the foundation segments.

Anyway, think of SIPS as giant lego blocks used to build the foundation quickly.  It is designed as a re-bar reinforced insulated pannel that acts as a form for concrete pour.  Very fast to build, strong and quite cost effective.

The crew also found an old glass bottle from what seems to be 1911 (embossed on the bottom).  Will post a picture of that ASAP.

We're rolling!